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Footnotes and Tangents is part of a growing community of book groups, book clubs, readalongs and slow reads on Substack.
This directory lists active newsletters with current and upcoming reads. Titles include fiction, nonfiction, plays and poetry.
If you host a book group on Substack and would like to be included, message me with links to your most relevant posts/pages and start dates for current and upcoming reads.
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Substack Book Group Directory
For past books, explore the archive.
Key: 📞 video meetups 🎧 podcasts
Apocryphaa’s Short Story Club
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The Audacious Book Club 📞
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The Big Read
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The Book Club for Busy Readers 📞
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Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society
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Cams Campbell Reads
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Close Reads HQ 🎧
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Closely Reading
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Commonplace Philosophy
Host: Jared Henderson • Last: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Oct) • Now: The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt (Nov-Feb) • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Mar)
Creative, Inspired, Happy 📞
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Deep Reads Book Club
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Dostoevsky book club «Theta-Delta»
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Elizabeth Goudge Bookclub
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Emily’s Walking Book Club 📞
Host: • Last: Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell (Oct) • Now: The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg (Nov) • Next: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Dec) • Now: On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
Footnotes and Tangents 🎧
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FrizzLit
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The Ladybird Purse
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Notes from the Town Hermit
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Paper Knife
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The Paulo Coelho Read Along
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Peak Notions 📞
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Pomus Aureus
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Poetry & Process
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Read the Classics
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Reading Revisited
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Receipt from the Bookshop
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Sleuth Hero Alien
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The Reader & the Writer 🎧
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The Selfish Bookclub
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The Story Social 🎧
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Teacups & Tomes Book Club
Hosts: & • Now: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Oct)
Telling Their Tales
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To All My Darlings
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True Stories Book Club 🎧
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is also running a read-along of The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston in December.
Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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Well-Read Weekend
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Archive
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James: Giovanni’s Room
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brooks, Sarah: The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wasteland
Coelho, Paulo: The Fifth Mountain, Manual of The Warrior of Light, Veronika Decides To Die
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (The Big Read),
Espinoza, Alex: The Sons of El Rey
Felker-Martin, Gretchen: Cuckoo
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goudge, Elizabeth: The Scent of Water, The Little White Horse, Linnets & Valerians, Island Magic, Green Dolphin Street,
Hammett, Dashiell: The Maltese Falcon
Harrison, Jim: The Creek
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day
Jackson, Shirley: The Haunting of Hill House
Jones, Lucy: Matrescence
Kafka, Franz: Before The Law
Kearns Goodwin, Doris: Team of Rivals
Lacy, Tim: Dream of a Democratic Culture
Larsen, Nella: Passing
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall
Mattei, Clara E: Capital Order
Mauriac, Francois: Vipers’ Tangle
Melville, Herman: Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee: Bite by Bite
Nolan, Megan: Ordinary Human Failings
Oliver, Mary: The Journey
Porter, Regina: The Rich People Have Gone Away
Patchett, Ann: Tom Lake
Shakespeare, William: As You Like It
Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
Ryan, Kay: A Hundred Bolts of Satin
Taylor, Elizabeth: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Thomas, Kai: In the Upper Country
Tolkien, JRR: Lord of the Rings
Undset, Sigrid: Kristin Lavransdatter
Walcott, Derek: Love after Love
Ward, Jesmyn: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
Yeats, William Butler: The Lake Isle of Innisfree