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Mychal Threets Named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential Creators, Book Clubs and More!

Bare Bookery, Permission to Write, Your Local Book Club

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Kyle Colley
July 16, 2025

Happy Wednesday!

Last week we made a pit stop in NYC, so of course we had to hit Strand!

Street bookstores will never get old.

Check out our latest Creators Talk Podcast with multifaceted and talented Khaya Fraites!

You may know her best from her work as Violet Sorrengail in the Graphic Audio of The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros.

Along with being a voice actor, she is also a writer, director, and filmmaker. We discussed bringing characters to life, audio narration, and what it takes to be an actor!

Enjoy!

This Week’s shelves:

  • 📚 Book Clubs on Bookum

  •  📺 Top 100 Creators: Mychal

  • 📖 Clare Mulroy’s Book List

This Week On Bookum:

Summer book clubs are in full force on Bookum!

Permission To Write’s Read Like A Writer Club (a summer reading series that discusses the deliberate decisions that shape the reading experience) just finished The Family Recipe by Carolyn Huynh and is now reading First Born Girls by Bernice McFadden.

Bare Bookery Club (a book club that focuses on Caribbean and Black stories) is reading In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming!

And the Austin, Texas-based 'Your Local Book Club' is reading The Wedding People by Alison Espach!

Join these great clubs or start your own clubs on Bookum today!

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This Week in The Book World:

Ain’t no party like a library party!

**cues the motto**

WE SHOUTOUT CREATORS.

It was announced this week that the always inspirational Mychal Threets was named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2025.

So influential, I might add, that Mychal's post on Bookum actually got us to renew our local library cards too☺️

This year Time Magazine exclusively made a Top 100 list focused on content creators!

There's no better time to be a content creator, so make sure to share that book post, start that book club, and collaborate with one another. You never know where it might land you!

What bookish content creators should be on the list next year? Reply and let us know!

TIME100 Creators 2025

Most Influential Digital Voices

time.com/collections/time100-creators-2025/

This Week in Publishing:

In the summer, one new book recommendation won't do.

Last month, we had the chance to talk with USA Today's Book Reporter Clare Mulroy, and she let us in on some of her favorite books growing up, what she's reading now, and what is coming up this year!

Everything from literary fiction to fantasy to dystopian. She's got the books for you!

Without further ado, here's her list (Add to your TBR on Bookum):

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Happy Reading!

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See you next week!

Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

Author and Booktuber Mark Manson’s Why Nobody Can Read Anymore - https://youtu.be/4KlNgXg25C8?si=-DS_qn3RDDWICGDy

Book Creator & Author Haley Pham officially announces ‘Just Friends’ Book Release set for March 3rd, 2026 with Atria Books