On this episode of the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, we hear from Lauren Hough, author of the NYT bestselling essay collection Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thing, and Elizabeth McCracken, whose new collection of short stories is The Souvenir Museum.

Michelle D. Commander, editor of UNSUNG: UNHERALDED NARRATIVES OF AMERICAN SLAVERY & ABOLITION, and Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of THE EX TALK.

Lauren Redniss, author of graphic nonfiction OAK FLAT, and Maisy Card, author of the novel THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY.

This week on the Book Club, Robert Jones, Jr., talks about his New York Times bestselling novel THE PROPHETS and Justine Cowan discusses her memoir THE SECRET LIFE OF DOROTHY SOAMES.

This time on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, We hear from Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, and Jessica Treadway, author of The Gretchen Question.

Ladybird, Collected is a collection of essays from a small, quirky diner in Lawrence, Kansas.

Simon Han's novel follows the Cheng family, recent immigrants to the U.S. from China.

We talk to the author of a thorough and enthralling history of Toussaint Louverture, the one-time enslaved man who led the successful slave revolt in Haiti.

A Place at the Table is a middle-grade book that tracks Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a white Jewish girl with an English mother. The girls develop a friendship that is sometimes uneasy but in the end, warm and loving.

This episode explores a true-crime anthology and a wonderful contemporary novel.