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.
Current Book on the Flagship Show: A Tale of Two Cities
January 27: Book the first
February 3: Book the second, chapters 1-6
February 10: Book the second, chapters 7-13
February 17: Book the second, chapters 14-19
February 24: Book the second, chapters 20-24
March 3: Book the third, chapters 1-9
March 10: Book the third, chapters 10-15
March 17: Q&A episode
Please note: March 24 will be a special one-off episode and then on March 31 we will begin Willa Cather’s O, Pioneers.
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 17-21
April 25: Chapters 22-25
May 9: Chapters 26-29
May 23: Chapters 30-33
June 6: to the end
June 20: Q&A
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.
Live Poetry Hour
Our next live poetry hour for subscribers will be in February. Date TBD. Catch up on January here.
Big Picture Schedule for the flagship show
Starting January 6: The Bridge of San Luis ReyJanuary 27: A Tale of Two Cities
Starting March 31: O, Pioneers
Starting 4/21: Piranesi
Starting June 2: The Great Gatsby
Starting June 30: Wuthering Heights
Starting August 25: The Princess and the Goblin
Starting September 15: A Farewell to Arms
Starting November 3: Much About Nothing