Hello, I'm Reanna Dillon and you're listening to The Penguin podcast and another episode of Ask Penguin.

Welcome back.

Regular listeners will know that Ask Penguin is your go-to podcast for answers to all of your book-related questions,

hearing directly from the people who write and make them.

We cover a different topic or genre every single time, so there's always something new to

discover. And this week's episode is no exception. We're thinking about book clubs and what makes

a good book club read. The only time that I've been in a book club was at uni

and we called ourselves the shaky club

because we all did English literature

and studied Shakespeare.

It wasn't pretentious at all and we mainly drank wine.

Maybe you though are part of a book club

that was more successful than mine

and you need to suggest the next title

to get the

conversation flowing or maybe you've always wanted to join one perhaps you became part of one to make

new friends or just wanted a chance to expand your reading habits but how do you choose which book

to discuss and what should you look for in a book club book? Never fear. Ask Penguin is here with some suggestions.

I think the best book club book is the kind

which sparks never-ending questions

with a million different answers where no one can agree.

So we thought that this writer's debut novel

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