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Maine Public Book Club: All Books Considered

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our book club this year! All of the book club meetings from this year (and previous years) are archived below.

We are busy planning our lineup for 2026. What books will our host Bill Nemitz want to dig his teeth into? If you have a suggestion or two, send Sophie a note at swood@mainepublic.org. Let her know the book title and author and why you are recommending the title.

See you in 2026!

The 2025 edition of the Maine Public Book Club was made possible through the generous support of Coffee By Design, The Park Danforth, Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shops, and Maine Public's viewers and listeners.




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Maine Public Book Club Meeting Archive


Season Five
Author Mark Edward Hall joins Bill to discuss The Children in the Lake, the first book in his series.
Author Monica Wood joins our host Bill Nemitz to discuss her novel How to Read a Book.
Shannon M. Parker joins Bill to talk about her novel Love & Lobsters.
Peter Nichols joins Bill to discuss his novel Granite Harbor.
Jennifer Finney Boylan returns to the Maine Public Book Club to talk with Bill about her book Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.
Shannon Bowring speaks with Bill about her novel, Where the Forest Meets the River.
Laurel Dodge speaks with Bill about her first novel, The Buoyant Letters of Mimsy Bell.
In our first book club meeting of 2025, author Amanda Peters speaks about her novel Waiting for the Long Night Moon.
Season Four
Author Ellen Baker speaks about her novel The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson.
Author Morgan Talty joined host Bill Nemitz for a LIVE book club meeting at Bull Moose in Bangor.
Author Amanda Peters joins Bill Nemitz to discuss her novel The Berry Pickers.
At our first live book event at Bullmoose in Scarborough, Philip Baker speaks with host Bill Nemitz about his novel Hunger Hill.
Join Bill Nemtiz and Cynthia “CB” Anderson, author of Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town.
Author Marpheen Chann talks with Bill Nemitz about his book "Moon in Full: A Modern-Day Coming-of-Age Story."
Author Gillian Burnes speaks with host Bill Nemitz about her novel "Soft Features."
Author Shannon Bowring speaks with our host Bill Nemitz about her novel "The Road to Dalton."
Join Bill Nemitz and Lungfish Author, Meghan Gilliss for our first Maine Public Book Club meeting of 2024.
Season Three
Author Paul Harding discusses his novel This Other Eden in a fast-paced conversation with host Bill Nemitz.
Host Bill Nemitz and author Mary Louise Kelly discuss her highly person memoir.
Get transported into the world of Trek with author Ryan Brit and his book Phasers on Stun!
Author Bill Roorbach joins Bill Nemitz to talk about his novel, Lucky Turtle.
Author Kerri Arsenault discusses her novel Mill Town with host Bill Nemitz.

Coauthor Jennifer Finney Boylan and Host Bill Nemitz discuss the novel Mad Honey.

Join our host Bill Nemitz and "The Midcoast" author, Adam White.
Season Two
Author John Cariani discusses his novel Almost, Maine with Maine Public's Jennifer Rooks.
Author Morgan Talty speaks with Maine Public's Cindy Han about his novel Night of the Living Rez. Set in Maine, the book’s twelve stories center around life and death on the Penobscot Indian Nation reservation. At the center of the collection is David, a Penobscot boy living on the rez, and he is the piece that links all of the stories.

Author Jeffrey Lewis discusses his novel Land of Cockaigne with Maine Public's Jennifer Rooks.
Author Phuc Tran discusses his novel Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In with Maine Public's Cindy Han.
Author Jessica Anthony discusses her novel Enter the Aardvark with Maine Public's Jennifer Rooks.
Author Gigi Georges talks about her first novel and the women that inspired her with Cindy Han.
Season One
Meredith Hall, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Without a Map, discusses her novel Beneficence with Maine Public's Jennifer Rooks.
Author Lily King discusses her novel Writers & Lovers with Maine Public's Cindy Han.
Author Jim Nichols discusses his novel Blue Summer with Maine Public's Jennifer Rooks.
Author Christina Baker Kline discusses her novel The Exiles with Maine Public's Cindy Han.
Author Susan Conley discusses her novel Landslide with Maine Public's Jennifer Rooks.
In this special All Books Considered Book Club meeting, Maine Public's Jennifer Rooks host a roundtable conversation with the Starfish Writer's Group, a group of five Maine authors: Bill Roorbach, Monica Wood, Lewis Robinson, Sarah Braunstein, and Kate Christensen.

Author Gregory Brown discusses his novel The Lowering Days with Maine Public's Cindy Han.

For more information or if you have questions about our Maine Public Book Club please email fun@mainepublic.org.