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Spooky Book Club Recommendations

Book Club Questions, Reviews

Child blowing on a plant, implying the end of the world, as warned in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

Are We Really Goners? AI Doom Explained In: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

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Yesteryear Book Club Questions to Get People Talking

Book Club Questions, Reviews

Book Club Recommendations for Historic Fiction Fans

Book Club Questions, Reviews

Women Don’t Always Want the “Perfect Ending” in Books and Life By Harper Ross

Reviews, Guest Writer

Book Reviews

Child blowing on a plant, implying the end of the world, as warned in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

Are We Really Goners? AI Doom Explained In: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

AI doom is dominating the news, and the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (2025) by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares will explain why you should worry. But if you want to know the gist of why everyone's freaking out, here's what the authors say:

Yesteryear Book Club Questions to Get People Talking

Book Club Questions, Reviews

Book Club Recommendations for Historic Fiction Fans

Book Club Questions, Reviews

Women Don’t Always Want the “Perfect Ending” in Books and Life By Harper Ross

Reviews, Guest Writer

Isola Book Review: Allegra Goodman’s Powerful Story of Resilience

Kristin Jacobson

Author Interviews

Rachel Howzell Hall And What Never Happened

Buckle up because New York Times best-selling author Rachel Howzell Hall is going to take you for a wild ride with her l... Read More...

Your Next Book Club Read – Snakes of St. Augustine by Ginger Pinholster

Book Club Profiles, Interviews

The theft of Trina Leigh Dean’s beloved snakes – including a rare Eastern indigo named Unicorn, Banana Splits the yellow... Read More...

The Best Laid Plans – Guest Post by Mark Goldblatt

Guest Writer, Interviews

I am so pleased to feature guest writer Mark Goldblatt today on Book Club Babble. Mark's newest book, Might as Well be D... Read More...

Love Buzz – An Intelligent and Charming Debut by Neely Tubati-Alexander

Interviews, Reviews

Serena Khan is hitting all the benchmarks of successful adulting. She has a great boyfriend who wants to get married, a ... Read More...

Q&A with Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer Michael C. Bland

Being a sci-fi writer and fan myself, I've featured Michael Bland on BCB previously. He's just released The Price of Reb... Read More...

She’s Not Home – Lena George’s Masterful Fiction Debut

Book Club Questions, Interviews, Reviews

Bestselling non-fiction author Jaclyn Paul will release her first fiction novel titled She's Not Home on April 25th usin... Read More...

Should I Watch?

Should I Watch The People We Hate at the Wedding?

Reviews, Should I Watch?

Going to a wedding in London sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Not when the bride-to-be is your much wealthier half-sister El... Read More...

Should I Watch All the Old Knives? – Joint Review with Katie Kupstas

Reviews, Should I Watch?

If you love thrillers but are sick of predicting the outcome before it transpires, this one is for you. Both the book an... Read More...

Literary Lagniappe

How To Write a Kick-Ass Love Scene

Literary Lagniappe, on Writing

We're delighted to collaborate with Sarah Echavarre Smith, author of On Location. How do you write a great love scene... Read More...

Middle Grade Author Dani Resh Talks About Her Writing Journey

Guest Writer, Literary Lagniappe, on Creativity, on Writing

I am so pleased to feature Dani Resh, author of The Magic Shoe middle grade fantasy series, on BCB today. In her guest a... Read More...