Nat Esten is a musician who co-owns Book Club Bar with his wife, Erin Neary. When he is not at the shop, he is often playing drums in the Saved by the 90s cover band. He is a lover of the Boston Red Sox and a doer of crossword puzzles. He lives and will probably die in New York.Erin Neary is originally from Brookfield, Wisconsin. After finishing college and graduate school, she moved to New York City in 2011, where she worked in nonprofit development and in marketing for tech start-ups before deciding to make the leap into retail bookselling and hospitality. Together with her husband, Nat Esten, she founded Book Club Bar in 2019. When she's not reading alongside their cat, Bruce, Neary enjoys running marathons and traveling. She lives in New York.

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• Introduction Home Bar Recommendations  Book Club Bar DrinksCrowd Favorites A Gentleman in Moscow Mule Author Spotlight: Amor Towles Children of Blood and Virgin Mary (NA)The Seven Husbands of Mary PickfordIt Ends with Citrus Lessons In ChambordA Thousand Splendid RumsAuthor Spotlight: Khaled HosseiniMezcal GothicWhere the Crawdads BounceThe Godfather of the Woods Happily Ever After A Court of Fig and HoneyAuthor Spotlight: Sarah J. MaasLady Whistledown’s TeaOne Italian Summer Spritz (NA)Pearsuasian Martini Author Spotlight: Jane AustenRed, White, and Royal BlueberrySex on the North Bear Shores BeachViolet’s ElixirWhat a Thrill Murder On the Orient Espresso Martini  Author Spotlight: Agatha Christie Dr. Frankenstein’s Corpse Reviver No. 2In Cold Bloody MaryLeave the World BehindSmoke & Mirrors Dirty Shirley Jackson Author Spotlight: Shirley JacksonPractically Magical Martini Rosemary’s BabyThe Thursday Murder Mezcal MargaritaHeathcliff’s GhostLiterary Fiction A Virgin Suicide Shaker (NA)If Bourbon Street Could TalkAuthor Spotlight: James BaldwinNightingale Nectar  On Earth We’re Briefly Sober (NA)Remarkably Bright Kraken The Handmaid’s Cocktail Author Spotlight: Margaret Atwood Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TequilaContemporary Classics Call Me by Your NectarDonna Plum TarttAuthor Spotlight: Donna TarttLike Whiskey for ChocolateMy Brilliant FerrariNo Country for Old Fashioned Men Author Spotlight: Cormac McCarthyThe Cider House MulesThe Pineapple Rum DiaryTimeless Classics The DelugeDe Beauvoir 75Author Spotlight: Simone de BeauvoirFeminine Mezcal MystiqueGrapefruits of Wrath Author Spotlight: John SteinbeckMadame BoulevardierOld Fashioned Man and The SeaOne Flew Over the Cucumber's Nest Picture of Dorian Earl GreyThe Sage of Innocence Author Spotlight: Edith Wharton The Tequila Sun Also Rises How to Build a Book Club That Lasts Book Club ModelsHow to Pick Your Book Hosting and Theme SuggestionsOur Top 100 Book Club Picks  IndexAcknowledgments About the Authors