Today we chat to Shay, the founder of ⁠Tough Guy Book Club⁠, a global book club for guys in pubs.

From humble beginnings in a Collingwood beer garden, find out how Tough Guy Book Club came about, how habit stacking has led to Shay taking paperbacks to birthday parties, and what a group of men really get up to when they go on book club camp.

Plus, what guest is never, ever invited to a chapter meeting?

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Today’s reading list:

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Honeybee by Craig Silvey
• Home by Toni Morrison
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Still Life by Sarah Winman
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Gun by C.S. Forester