Radio Book Club – KGNU Community Radio

  Listen to more of our conversation with author Pam Houston who answers questions from the audience at the live taping of the Radio Book Club at the Boulder Public Library on October 15th, 2026. Listen to our broadcast interview with Pam Houston where she talks about her new book Animals [...]

The October selection for the Radio Book Club is “Animals Taught Me Everything” by Pam Houston. The book explores the profound lessons that Pam Houston has learned from animals, both domestic and wild—from her beloved wolf hounds and donkeys at her ranch in Creed, Colorado, to the horses she has [...]

The September selection for the Radio Book Club is The Correspondent by author Virginia Evans. The book which follows the life of a retired lawyer Sybil, through her personal letters and emails, won the 2026 women’s prize for fiction. Today’s conversation was recorded on September 17, 2026, at the annual [...]

  Listen to more of our conversation with author  Claire Boyles who talks more about some of the characters in her novel Appraisals, especially Paul, a billionaire who is buying up land and water rights in Weld County. She also talks about her experience as a writer, including the difference [...]

The August selection for the Radio Book Club is Appraisals by author Claire Boyles. The book follows four generations of women tied to a family farm in Weld County, Colorado. The story is set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash and talks about land and family and what [...]

  Listen to more of our conversation with author David Heska Wanbli Weiden where he talks about the real place that is Wisdom Corner, and about life on the Rosebud Reservation. He also talks about the importance of Native American writers telling the stories of Native American communities, especially in [...]

    The July selection for the Radio Book Club is Wisdom Corner, the latest novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden and the long-anticipated sequel to his bestselling debut, Winter Counts. In Wisdom Corner, we once again meet protagonist Virgil Wounded Horse, who is trying to leave behind his past [...]

  Listen to more of our conversation with author T. A. Barron where he talks about the origins of the names of creatures from the vampire squid from hell to the aquatic salamander called the hellbender, also known as the Allegheny alligator. We also hear about the fertility benefits of [...]

  The June 2026 installment of the Radio Book Club, a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore, is Naming Nature: A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities for Word Lovers by Colorado author T.A. Barron. Barron is best known for his fantasy novels for children and young adults, including the popular Merlin series. [...]

  In this edition of Afterhours at the Radio Book Club, author Nina McConigley talks more about growing up as an immigrant in 1980s Wyoming, and navigating an Indian, Irish, American identity. Listen to our broadcast interview with Nina McConigley where she talks more about her new novel How to [...]

The May 2026 installment of the Radio Book Club, a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore, is How to Commit a Post Colonial Murder, by author Nina McConigley. The book is set in 1986 in rural Wyoming and tells the story of two sisters Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna [...]

In this edition of Afterhours at the Radio Book Club, author Laura Pritchett talks more about nature writing and the urgency for literature to address the climate crisis. Listen to our broadcast interview with Laura Pritchett where she talks more about her new novel Three Keys. Subscribe to our Radio Book [...]

The April 2026 selection for the Radio Book Club is “Three Keys” by Colorado author Laura Pritchett. The novel follows Ammalie, a recently widowed woman who sets out on a journey across the Mountain West and eventually to New Zealand. Along the way, she begins to reconsider her role as [...]

  In this edition of Afterhours at the Radio Book Club, author Thea Weiss answers questions from the audience. This episode was recorded at Chautauqua as part of the inaugural Boulder Bookstore Reading Retreat on Sunday, March 1st, 2026. Thea talks about how her background as a screen writer influenced [...]

In this episode of Afterhours at the Radio Book Club, Peter Heller answers questions from the audience at the event that was recorded at the Boulder Public Library on Thursday, January 15th, 2026. Peter talks about his writing process, the upcoming movie version of his novel The Dog Stars, and [...]

The February 2026 selection for the Radio Bookclub is “The Orchard,” by Peter Heller. The story’s protagonist is Frith, a little girl who lives with her mother, Hayley, on a remote Vermont apple orchard. The story weaves in strands of Chinese poetry to explore memory, loss and the enduring complexity [...]