Writers Who Read LIVE! is a group of writers who meet monthly in Boulder, Colorado, to use Literary Forensics to dissect recent novels for the purpose of uncovering how the author has utilized their skills for effect. Storytelling is an art, but it’s not a mystery.

Between September and June we meet on the 1st Sunday at 2:30 pm, somewhere in Boulder County, Colorado. Meetings are hybrid–both in person and online–so even if you’re not here in person you can join the discussion. Just join the Meetup to get notices of upcoming events.

Past Books

2024

December 1: Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward (USA, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
November 3: Holly - Stephen King (USA, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
October 6: Tom Lake - Ann Patchett (USA, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
September 8: Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros (USA, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
June 2: Mr. Texas - Lawrence Wright (USA, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
May 5: Yellowface - R. F. Kuang (USA, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
April 7: Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld (USA, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
March 3: Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton (NZ, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
February 4: Victory City - Salman Rushdie (UK, 2023) @ Main Boulder Library & online
January 7: Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online

2023

December 3: Trust - Hernan Diaz (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
November 5: Avalon - Nell Zink (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
October 1: Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
September 3: The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
June 4: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
May 7: Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
April 2: The Candy House - Jennifer Egan (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
March 5: Winter Work - Dan Fesperman (USA, 2022) @ Main Boulder Library & online
February 5: Cold Enough for Snow - Jessica Au (Australia, 2022) @ Louisville Library & online
January 8: The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan (USA, 2022) @ Superior Community Center & online

2022

December 4: The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen (USA, 2021) @ Main Boulder Library & online
November 6: When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut (Spain, trans. by Adrian Nathan West, 2021) @ Louisville Library & online
October 2: Matrix - Lauren Groff (USA, 2021) @ Louisville Library & online
June 5: Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen (USA, 2021) @ Louisville Library & online
May 1: Intimacies - Katie Kitamura (USA, 2021) @ Louisville Library & online
April 3: The Promise - Damon Galgut (S. Africa, 2021) @ Louisville Library & online
March 6: The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz (USA, 2021) @ Louisville Library & online
February 6: Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro (UK, 2021) @ Main Boulder Library & online
January 2: No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood (USA, 2021) @ Main Boulder Library & online

2021

December 5: Deacon King Kong - James McBride (USA, 2020) @ Main Boulder Library & online
November 7: Inside Story - Martin Amis (UK, 2020) @ Main Boulder Library & online
October 3: Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell (UK, 2020) @ Main Boulder Library & online
September 5: Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart (USA, 2020) @ Main Boulder Library & online
June 6: The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett (USA, 2020) @ online
May 2: The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante (Italy, trans. by Ann Goldstein, 2020) @ online
April 4: Apeirogon - Colum McCann (Ireland, 2020) @ online
March 7: Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu (USA, 2020) @ online
February 7: Red Pill - Hari Kunzru (USA, 2020) @ online
January 3: A Burning - Megha Majumdar (USA, 2020) @ online

2020

December 6: The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (USA, 2019) @ online
November 1: Weather - Jenny Offill (USA, 2020) @ online
October 4: The Testaments - Margaret Atwood (Canada, 2019) @ online
September 6: Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout (USA, 2019) @ online
August 2: Lost and Wanted - Nell Freudenberger (USA, 2019) @ online
July 5: Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad (USA, 2019) @ online
June 7: Agent Running in the Field - John le Carré (UK, 2019) @ online
May 3: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, 2019) @ online
April 5: Fleishman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner (USA, 2019) @ online
March 1: Lady in the Lake - Laura Lippman (USA, 2019) @ Main Boulder Library
February 2: Trust Exercise - Susan Choi (USA, 2019) @ Main Boulder Library
January 5: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (USA, 2019) @ Main Boulder Library

2019

December 1: The House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea (USA, 2018) @ Main Boulder Library
November 3: American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson (USA, 2019) @ Main Boulder Library
October 6: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (UK, 2017) @ Main Boulder Library
September 8: Newcomer - Keigo Higashino (Japan, trans. by Giles Murray, 2018) @ Main Boulder Library
May 1: The Witch Elm - Tana French (Ireland, 2018) @ Main Boulder Library
April 3: There There - Tommy Orange (USA, 2018) @ Main Boulder Library
March 4: Kudos - Rachel Cusk (UK, 2018) @ Main Boulder Library
February 10: The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer (USA, 2018) @ Main Boulder Library
January 2: Exit West - Mohsin Hamid (UK, 2017) @ Main Boulder Library

2018

December 5: Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday (USA, 2018) @ Colorado Building
November 7: Origin - Dan Brown (USA, 2017) @ Boulder Book Store
October 3: Mrs. Fletcher - Tom Perrotta (USA, 2017) @ Boulder Book Store
September 5: Less - Andrew Sean Greer (USA, 2017) @ Boulder Book Store
August 1: The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (USA, 2017) @ Boulder Book Store