The Next Best Book Club discussion

Big Top Halloween (1988)

“Here Comes Jesus” – Clear
“In My Town” – Face-Off at the Altar
“Priscilla’s Wedding” – The Mirror
“Push” – Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“Scream” – Read a book that scares the beejezus out of you
“But Listen” – Finding Margaret Fuller
“Big Top Halloween” – The Vampire's Mail Order Bride
“Life in a Day” – The Fall Risk
“Sammy” – Cross
“Doughball” – Bad Monkey
“Back o’ the Line” – Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
“Greek is Extra” – The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

Gentlemen (1993)

“If I Were Going” – We Are All Guilty Here
“Gentlemen” – If you read a book that you are absolutely obsessed over, take credit here
“Be Sweet” – The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
“Debonair” – Read a book that made you feel fancy
“When We Two Parted” – All the Colors of the Dark
“Fountain and Fairfax” – Clear
“What Jail is Like” – We Are All Guilty Here
“My Curse” – Still Beating
“Now You Know” – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song
“I Keep Coming Back” – The Deepest of Secrets (I don't re-read so this was the last in the series)
“Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer” – Save this spot for the last book you read this year!


Black Love (1996)

“Crime Scene Part One” – The Girls in the Snow
“My Enemy” – Give ‘em another chance, read a book by an author you read previously but didn’t like
“Double Day” – The Sweetest Chirp
“Blame, etc” – Blessing of the Lost Girls
“Step Into the Light” – Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“Going to Town” – Death Row
“Honky’s Ladder” – Mother Dear
“Night by Candlelight” – Clear
“Bulletproof” – Cross
“Summer’s Kiss” – Wildfire
“Faded” – The Sideways Guide to Composers


1965 (1998)

“Somethin’ Hot” – Face-Off at the Altar
“Crazy” – Rock Paper Scissors
“Uptown Again” – Bonded in Death
“Sweet Son of a Bitch” – We Are All Guilty Here
“66” – Sipsworth
“Citi Soleil” – What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
“John the Baptist” – All the Other Mothers Hate Me
“The Slide Song” – Slide out of that book you’ve been struggling to read, go on, DNF it and take credit for it here
“Neglekted” – Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“Omerta” – Elemental Magic
“The Vampire Lanois” – The Vampire's Mail Order Bride

Do to the Beast (2014)

“Parked Outside” – The Second Chance Hotel
“Matamoros” – Clear
“It Kills” – Cross
“Algiers” – The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
“Lost in the Woods” – We Are All Guilty Here
“The Lottery” – The Sweetest Chirp
“Can Rova” – Some Other Time
“Royal Cream” – Bad Monkey
“I Am Fire” – Cross
“These Sticks” – Read Appalachian fiction or a book that takes place in the Fall


In Spades (2017)

“Birdland” – Natural Selection
“Arabian Heights” – Read a book that’s considered a classic
“Demon in Profile” – Living with the Dead
“Toy Automatic” – Letters from Rifka
“Oriole” – Bad Monkey
“Copernicus” – Read a book that takes place in outer space
“The Spell” – The Mirror
“Light as a Feather” – The Fall Risk
“I Got Lost” – The Endless Vessel
“Into the Floor” – Death Row

Thanks for playing along in 2025!!!!

Finished the first album:

How Do You Burn (2022)

“I’ll Make You See God” – After Annie
“The Getaway” – Life, Loss, and Puffins
“Catch a Colt” – Pony Confidential
“Jyja” – Sipsworth
“Please, Baby, Please” – All the Colors of the Dark
“A Line of Shots” – The Widows’ Guide to Murder
“Domino and Jimmy” – The Mirror
“Take Me There” – In a Sunburned Country (I'm stretching this one a bitty bit...I leave in 3 days for Australia)
“Concealer” – Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life
“In Flames” – Still Beating

Finished another album:

Congregation (1992)

“Her Against Me” – Bonded in Death
“I’m Her Slave” – The Second Chance Hotel
“Turn on the Water” – Scorpio
“Conjure Me” – The Mirror
“Kiss the Floor” – Wildfire
“Congregation” – The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
“This is My Confession” – The Secret War of Julia Child
“Dedicate it” – The Women
“The Temple” – All the Colors of the Dark
“Let Me Lie to You” – We Are All Guilty Here
“Tonight” – The Fall Risk
“Miles Iz Ded” – Clear

Another album done

Up In It (1990)

“Retarded” – All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today (included here as the subject matter will enrage you)
“White Trash Party” – Elemental Magic
“Hated” – Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time
“Southpaw” – The Sideways Guide to Composers
“Amphetamines and Coffee” – After Annie
“Now We Can Begin” – The Life We Bury
“You My Flower” - The Measure
“Son of the South” – We Are All Guilty Here
“I Know Your Little Secret” – Wildfire
“I Am the Sticks” – Salt & Broom