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Less about any single book and more about how people read: fitting books into a busy week, picking a title a whole club can talk about, and finding readers online who like the same things you do.

Claire Keegan · 2021Small Things Like TheseA coal merchant, a convent and one cold Irish Christmas: Keegan packs more moral nerve into a hundred-odd pages than most writers manage in six hundred.

Reading listIf you liked The Nickel Boys: 8 books to read nextMore Whitehead, a Mississippi road trip with a ghost, and other novels about institutions that fail children and the people who outlast them.

Reading listNovels under 200 pages worth your weekendShort books with long tails: eight novels you can finish between Friday night and Sunday lunch, and keep thinking about for weeks.

Reading listBook club picks that start argumentsNine novels that split a room down the middle, with the exact question to ask when the conversation stalls.

Book Twitter guideHow to find and join book communities on XHashtags, lists, Spaces and group chats: where readers gather on X now, and how to become part of the conversation instead of shouting at it.

Book Twitter guideHow to write a book review thread people actually readThe hook, the structure, the example layout and the spoiler etiquette for a book review thread that people read to the end.

Book Twitter guideHow authors and readers can run a book club on XA month-by-month plan for a public book club on X, with schedules, threads, polls, Spaces and group chats, plus what authors should and shouldn't do.

ToolTweet-sized review helperType a title and your take, watch the 280-character counter follow X's rules for links and emoji, then copy or share.