With Radio Bristol Book Club, the Birthplace of Country Music and the Bristol Public Library come together each month to celebrate and explore the wonderful world of literature. The show airs the 4th Thursday of every month at 12 p.m., and the books on our reading list focus on museum content, music heritage, and Appalachian culture and stories. Your hosts Dr. Rene Rodgers, Erika Barker, or Tonia Kestner, along with volunteer readers, will dig deep into the feelings and questions raised by one selected book each month, often followed by an interview with the author.
Check out the Radio Bristol Book Club list for 2026 and read along with us each month! And if you’d like to share your thoughts or questions about the book, you can email us at info@birthplaceofcountrymusic.org (Subject line: Radio Bristol Book Club) and we’ll include them in our on-air discussion.
January 22, 2026
Night Came with Many Stars by Simon Van Booy
February 26, 2026
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
March 26, 2026
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music by Bill C. Malone
April 23, 2026
The Unlikely Through-Hiker by Derick Lugo
May 28, 2026
Mommy Goose: Rhymes from the Mountains by Mike Norris
June 25, 2026
The Queen of Summer’s Twilight by Charles Vess
July 23, 2026
The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
August 27, 2026
Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu
September 24, 2026
The Last Ballad by Wylie Cash
October 22, 2026
Dead Man Blues by S.D. House
November 19, 2026
Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women and Gibson’s “Banner” Guitars of WWII by John Thomas
December 17, 2026
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley