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The Birthplace of Country Music and the Bristol Public Library are coming together each month to celebrate and explore the wonderful world of literature. Join us for the Radio Bristol Book Club, a program airing the 4th Thursday of every month at 11am. Your hosts Dr. René Rodgers and Tonia Kestner, along with two volunteer readers, will dig deep into the feelings and questions raised by one selected book each month.

Read along with us each month starting in January 2026! Here’s the list of upcoming books:

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