TWFest Welcomes Book Clubs!
Welcome to the Tennessee Williams Festival home for book clubs! Below, find all our ticketing options and how to use the 2025 book club coupon code. We're excited to offer this exclusive group discount just for book club members!
Festival Ticketing & Coupon Instructions
Tickets to individual events are being added daily on our Ticketing page. We also offer multiple ticketing options so that you can have your best Festival experience.
The VIP Pass is the best way to see everything you want at TWF25 and go to as many events each day as you possibly can. Treat yourself to the full fest experience!
The LitPass will get you into every literary discussion and is perfect if you mostly want to attend these panels. You can also purchase additional individual tickets to anything else you’d like to see.
Buy a Lit Day Pass if you can only attend for one day and you just want to go to the literary discussion panels. This is especially good on Friday, when it also admits you to the full scholars conference.
The Scholar's Conference Pass is if you're only attending the Tennessee Williams Scholar's Conference, and you can buy individual tickets to anything else you’d like to see.
To use your book club coupon, simply enter TW25BC when the ticket cart asks for a promo or discount code.
New to the Fest? See this Festival Programming Overview for more details.
Need help with your order? Email us at info@tennesseewilliams.net.
2025 Festival Reading Lists
Read your way through our 2025 Festival! Choose from our lineup of incredible authors as you fill in the sentence: "I want to read a..."
Poetry Collection
Stacey Balkun - Sweetbitter
Jack Bedell - Ghost Forest: Poems
Peter Cooley - Accounting for the Dark
Benjamin Morris - The Singing River
M.A. Nicholson - Around the Gate
Andy Young - Museum of the Soon to Depart
Book by an award-winning writer
Megan Abbott - Beware the Woman
Christine Carbo - A Sharp Solitude
Michael Cunningham - Day
Gwen Florio - Best Be Prepared
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects
Adrianne Harun - On Our Way to the End of the World
Angie Kim - Happiness Falls
Laura Lippman - My Life as a Villainess
Bernice L. McFadden - Firstborn Girls
M.A. Nicholson - Around the Gate
Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields
Kate Segriff - Animals in Captivity
Boyce Upholt - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
Historical Novel
Allison Alsup - Foreign Seed
Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp
Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields
C.S. Harris - Who Will Remember
Kalamu ya Salaam - Walkin’ Blues
E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year
Book related to Tennessee Williams
Thomas Keith & Tom Mitchell - Early Stories by Tennessee Williams
David Kaplan - Tennessee Williams in Provincetown; Tenn Years; Tenn at One Hundred
Book set in the South
Margot Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water
Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp
C.H. Hooks - Can’t Shake the Dust
Alex Jennings - The Ballad of Perilous Graves
M.A. Nicholson - Around the Gate
Kalamu ya Salaam - Walkin’ Blues
E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year
Michael Allen Zell - The Last Shadow
Short Story Collection
Miles Harvey - The Registry of Forgotten Objects
Kate Segriff - Animals in Captivity
Julia Ridley Smith - Sex Romp Gone Wrong
Thomas Keith & Tom Mitchell - Early Stories by Tennessee Williams
Book by a POC writer
Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry
KB Brookins - Pretty
Alafair Burke - The Note
Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp
Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry
Alex Jennings - The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Angie Kim - Happiness Falls
Bernice L. McFadden - Firstborn Girls
Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields
Kalamu ya Salaam - Walkin’ Blues
Ery Shin - Spring on the Peninsula
E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year
Book with an LGBTQ+ main character
Michael Cunningham - Day
Margot Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water
Alex Jennings - The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Ery Shin - Spring on the Peninsula
E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year
Book by a New Orleans writer
Allison Alsup - Foreign Seed
Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry
Stacey Balkun - Sweetbitter
Eric Cook - Modern Creole: A Taste of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine
Peter Cooley - Accounting for the Dark
Chris Granger - Painting the Town: The Importance of Color in Historic New Orleans Architecture
C.S. Harris - Who Will Remember
Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp
Alex Jennings - The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry
Bernice L. McFadden - Firstborn Girls
Benjamin Morris - The Singing River
Justin Maxwell - The Playwright's Toolbox: Exercises from 56 Contemporary Dramatists on Designing, Building, and Refurbishing Your Plays
M.A. Nicholson - Around the Gate
Ylva Mara Radziszewski - A Practical Guide for Witches
Kirsten Reneau - Sensitive Creatures
Desiree Richter - The Presence of Absence
Kalamu ya Salaam - Walkin’ Blues
Paulina Stevens & Jezmina Von Thiele - Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling
E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year
Boyce Upholt - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
Andy Young - Museum of the Soon to Depart
Michael Allen Zell - The Last Shadow
Literary Novel
Michael Cunningham - Day
Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp
Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry
Angie Kim - Happiness Falls
Ery Shin - Spring on the Peninsula
Memoir
Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry
J.T. Blatty - Snapshots Sent Home: From Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine – A Memoir
KB Brookins - Pretty
Laura Lippman - My Life as a Villainess
Bernice L. McFadden - Firstborn Girls
Kirsten Reneau - Sensitive Creatures
Desiree Richter - The Presence of Absence
Book with a POC main character
Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp
Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields
Angie Kim - Happiness Falls
Kalamu ya Salaam - Walkin’ Blues
Ery Shin - Spring on the Peninsula
E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year
Michael Allen Zell - The Last Shadow
Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Megan Abbott - Beware the Woman
Trudy Nan Boyce - The Policeman’s Daughter
Alafair Burke - The Note
Christine Carbo - A Sharp Solitude
Margot Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water
Gwen Florio - Best Be Prepared
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects
Adrianne Harun - On Our Way to the End of the World
Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields
Angie Kim - Happiness Falls
C.S. Harris - Who Will Remember
Michael Allen Zell - The Last Shadow
Book by an LGBTQ+ writer
Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry
KB Brookins - Pretty
Michael Cunningham - Day
Margot Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water
Ylva Mara Radziszewski - A Practical Guide for Witches
Kirsten Reneau - Sensitive Creatures
Paulina Stevens & Jezmina Von Thiele - Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling
Nonfiction Book
Eric Cook - Modern Creole: A Taste of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine
Chris Granger - Painting the Town: The Importance of Color in Historic New Orleans Architecture
Justin Maxwell - The Playwright's Toolbox: Exercises from 56 Contemporary Dramatists on Designing, Building, and Refurbishing Your Plays
Ylva Mara Radziszewski - A Practical Guide for Witches
Gary Richards - Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936 - 1961
Bess Rowen - Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment
Paulina Stevens & Jezmina Von Thiele - Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling
Boyce Upholt - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
