Bookmark the Blog: Author Interviews

New York Times bestselling author Kate Moore digs into a little-known history in her most recent book The Radium Girls.

Kate Moore recently visited Reading Group Choices to read and discuss her work with an audience. Kate also kindly took the time to answer our questions after she shared part of her inspiring book. Moore’s The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women is the incredible true story of the women who fought America’s undark danger.

Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?​

Kate Moore: What the **** is Normal? 

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Melanie McManus’s debut, Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail, highlights her passion for the outdoors.

Melanie McManus recently visited Reading Group Choices to read and discuss her work with an audience. Melanie also kindly took the time to answer our questions after she shared part of her inspiring book.

Reading Group Choices: What books are currently stacked next to your bed/on your desk/in your pile-to-read?

Melanie McManus: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, The House at Sugar Beach by Helen White and The Year of Living Biblically by A.J.

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Mary Sharratt’s latest novel, Ecstasy, explores turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna.

Mary Sharratt recently visited Reading Group Choices to read and discuss her work with an audience. She also took the time to answer our questions about her favorite books and music, and growing up in the Midwest.

Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?​

Mary Sharratt: When I was a teenager I read Nor Hall’s book, The Moon and the Virgin, which I treasure to this day. It opened me up to the living reality of myth,

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Cynthia Swanson’s latest book, The Glass Forest, is a gripping literary suspense novel set in the 1960s.

Cynthia Swanson recently visited Reading Group Choices to read and discuss her work with an audience. She also took the time to answer our questions and shared influential books, meaningful places, and living in Wisconsin.

​Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?​

Cynthia Swanson: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollen. It taught me (and my husband, who also read it) how to make more mindful choices about what we eat and feed our family.

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National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee’s latest book, Pachinko, charts the saga of four generations of a poor immigrant Korean family.

Min Jin Lee recently visited Reading Group Choices to read and discuss her work with an audience. Lee took the time to join us for an interview, sharing life-changing books and the best part of giving readings.

Reading Group Choices: What book(s) changed your life?​

Min Jin Lee: Middlemarch by George Eliot and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

RGC: What book(s) are coming out this year that you’re looking forward to reading?

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Lorna Landvik’s latest novel, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge, is a sequel to her debut, Patty Jane’s House of Curl.

Lorna Landvik recently visited Reading Group Choices to read and discuss her work with an audience. Lorna also took the time to answer our questions and shared life-changing books, Norwegian curse words, her favorite bookstore, and what she finds most fascinating in the world of science. 

Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?​
Lorna Landvik: It would have to be Dick and Jane,

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