Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
People April is back for 2025 with hosts Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks youtu.be/fU2D7_Z2jjg?si=0beTFIyoDREkG9Oq and Brian @BookishTexan youtu.be/y6ZYyn_AnGI?si=qqmEG2iqM1kV2UzD
0:00 all you need to know about the readathon
5:08 a run through the group read choices
This month long readathon is about inviting you to read one or more books about people. We're talking nonfiction about real individuals so that's biography, memoir, letters, diaries. But in any form from a straight biography to autobiographical poetry, from a travel journal to reflective personal essays, a political diary or a graphic memoir.
Share your reading and thoughts on Discord discord.gg/QsTcSfpEMJ
There's a Storygraph challenge (thanks Amelia) app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1afc8213-0df3-4b17-b656-39d8e1906033?redirect=true
See if you can fit your choice to one of our prompts:
"Memoirs are the backstairs of history" George Meredith
"Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life that is my life" Philip Roth
Vote on our group read options in the poll on @bouquinsbooks youtube.com/post/UgkxDtyJjaSwc4I-BkEPf51cvoL6rBIEf_p4?si=J-9Mo6BpHyKuVMGU then join us to read the chosen book and discuss it on Discord.
Group read shortlist:
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
The Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev
Conundrum by Jan Morris
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
On the Hippie Trail by Rick Steves
People April is back for 2025 with hosts Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks youtu.be/fU2D7_Z2jjg?si=0beTFIyoDREkG9Oq and Brian @BookishTexan youtu.be/y6ZYyn_AnGI?si=qqmEG2iqM1kV2UzD
0:00 all you need to know about the readathon
5:08 a run through the group read choices
This month long readathon is about inviting you to read one or more books about people. We're talking nonfiction about real individuals so that's biography, memoir, letters, diaries. But in any form from a straight biography to autobiographical poetry, from a travel journal to reflective personal essays, a political diary or a graphic memoir.
Share your reading and thoughts on Discord discord.gg/QsTcSfpEMJ
There's a Storygraph challenge (thanks Amelia) app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1afc8213-0df3-4b17-b656-39d8e1906033?redirect=true
See if you can fit your choice to one of our prompts:
"Memoirs are the backstairs of history" George Meredith
"Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life that is my life" Philip Roth
Vote on our group read options in the poll on @bouquinsbooks youtube.com/post/UgkxDtyJjaSwc4I-BkEPf51cvoL6rBIEf_p4?si=J-9Mo6BpHyKuVMGU then join us to read the chosen book and discuss it on Discord.
Group read shortlist:
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
The Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev
Conundrum by Jan Morris
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
On the Hippie Trail by Rick Steves
