Annemarie Dooling

Community Editor, Huffington Post

We've been running the HuffPost Book Club for the better part of a year now, and as both an editor and a book club member, I wanted to go back and go ...

Andrew Losowsky

Senior Books Editor, The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is launching a book club. This is why.

Kevin Echavarria

HuffPost Book Club Community Member

The first time I read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, I was a freshman journalism major in his first quarter at Northwestern University. Two maj...

Uke Jackson

HuffPost Book Club Community Member

How much of my life as it was lived so far was affected by my reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises? I actually asked myself this question while read...

Nicole Villeneuve

Writer, Paper and Salt

Ernest Hemingway has become such a legendary character, it's hard to think of a recipe that could match his macho reputation. Whether on a Cuban beach or the African savanna, Hem was a fan of the good life -- and that included good food.

Terri Barnes

Spouse Calls, Stars and Stripes

Our current HuffPost Book Club pick is "What It Is Like To Go To War" by Karl Marlantes. We are talking about different aspects of the military experi...

Sarah McCoy

Author, 'The Baker's Daughter'

In my novel The Baker's Daughter, four chapters are from the perspective of a Nazi officer. Writing these was no easy task.

Fatma Makki

HuffPost Books Community Member

You might be thinking, "Ok, so an Arab Muslim girl wants to talk about war? Let's prepare for the Islamist preachiness, for the barbaric slogans, for the death-to-Amreeka chants..."

Tracey Scharmann

Writer, HuffPost Books Community Member

I don't know what it's like to go to war, but I know what it's like to stay home from war. I know what it's like to watch your husband on the tarmac---heave over, putting his hands on his knees only lifting his head to sob on my shoulder before he takes off.

Dorie Clark

Consultant; author, 'Reinventing You' (HBR Press, 2013)

Here's what I've learned in the past few months about concrete ways you can support your favorite writer, whether they're a close friend or someone you admire from afar (even celebrity authors would welcome your help on most of these).