The Current Schedule (A Working Document)

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Welcome to the official Close Reads schedule. Whatever’s most current will be posted here. As we come to new books/series/news we’ll post the requisite information.

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Current Book on the Flagship Show: The Great Gatsby

June 2: Mailbag episode

June 9: Chapters 1-3
June 16: Chapters 4-6
June 23: Chapter 7-9 (end)
June 30: Q&A

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Current Subscriber-Exclusive Book: The Betrothed

Please note: We have one more episode of Mansfield Park to post—the Q&A—and then we will move on to The Betrothed. We will be reading the Michael F. Moore translation, released by Modern Library

February 14: Intro-chapter 4
February 28: Chapters 5-8
March 14: Chapters 9-12
March 28: Chapters 13-16
April 11: Chapters 17-20
May 2: Chapters 21-24
May 16: Chapters 25-28
May 30: Chapters 29-32
June 13: to the end
June 27: Q&A

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The Monthly Mysteries for 2025

January - The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
February - Smallbone Deceased (Michael Gilbert)
March - The Singing Sands (Josephine Tey)
April - The Great Mistake (Mary Roberts Rhinehart)
May - Mystery Mile (Margery Allingham)
June - Seat of the Scornful (John Dickson Carr)
July - Some Buried Caesar (Rex Stout)
August - The Zebra-striped Hearse (Ross Macdonald)
September - Five Little Pigs (Agatha Christie)
October - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Ellis Peters)
November - Epitaph for a Spy (Eric Ambler)
December - Murder in the Mill Race (ECR Lorac)

You can grab copies of these titles through Goldberry Books here.

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Live Poetry Hour

Moving forward our Live Poetry Hour chats will take place on the 4th Tuesday of the month. The Zoom link will be sent to subscribers that morning.

Please note, May’s poetry hour was postponed to June 3.

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Big Picture Schedule for the flagship show

Starting January 6: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
January 27: A Tale of Two Cities
Starting March 31: O, Pioneers
Starting 4/28: Piranesi
Starting June 9: The Great Gatsby
Starting July 7: Wuthering Heights
Starting September 1: The Princess and the Goblin
Starting September 22: A Farewell to Arms
Starting November 10: Much About Nothing