Substack Book Group Directory

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Footnotes and Tangents is part of a growing network 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, send me an email or direct message with links to your most relevant posts/pages and start dates for current and upcoming reads.

This list is updated monthly and sent to all Footnotes and Tangents subscribers.

Newsletters are listed alphabetically.

Adrian’s Newsletter
Host:

Adrian Neibauer

• Now: Hidden Potential by

Adam Grant

The Audacious Book Club
Host:

Roxane Gay

• Last: Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (June) • Now: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Big Read
Host:

Jeremy Anderberg

• Last: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë • Current: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Cams Campbell Reads
Host:

Cams Campbell

Now: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (May 2024 – Feb 2025)

Close Reads HQ
Hosts:

David Kern

,

Tim McIntosh

,

Heidi White

• Now: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset & To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Closely Reading
Host:

haley larsen, phd

• Now: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Common Reader
Host:

Henry Oliver

• Last: As You Like It by William Shakespeare • Next: Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Hamlet

Elizabeth Goudge Bookclub
Host:

Elizabeth Goudge Bookclub

• Last: The Scent of Water • Now: The Little White Horse • Next: Linnets & Valerians

Emily’s Walking Book Club
Host:

Emily Rhodes

• Last: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (June) • Now: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (July)

Everything is Amazing
Host:

Mike Sowden

• Now: On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz

Footnotes and Tangents
Host:

Simon Haisell

• Last: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel • Now: Bring Up the Bodies & War and Peace • Next: The Mirror and the Light (start 22 July)

FrizzLit
Host:

Christopher Frizzelle

• Now: Herman Melville • Next: Persuasion by Jane Austen (July) & Dune by Frank Herbert (August – September)

MakingHistory and Lifelong Learning
Host:

Dan Allosso

• Last: Capital Order by Clara E. Mattei • Now: Dream of a Democratic Culture by Tim Lacy

Notes from the Town Hermit
Host:

Tiffany Chu

• Next: Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (September)

Paper Knife
Host:

Leonard Gaya

• Now: A Year of Reading Kafka

Personal Canon Formation
Host:

John Halbrooks

• Last: Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien • Now: Emma by Jane Austen • Next: Jonathan Swift & Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Poetry & Process
Host:

Brian Funke

• Last: The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats • Now: The Creek by Jim Harrison

The Recovering Academic
Host:

Joshua Doležal

• Last: My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Virginia Woolf Reading Group
Host:

Tash

• Last: Mrs Dalloway • Next: To the Lighthouse (next year)

Walking Away
Host:

Jared Henderson

• Now: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (July – September)