Time to read: Daisy Jones & The Six

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As you should already know, our September book club pick is Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six! (Read an excerpt here.) Presented as an oral history, Reid tells the raucous story of what was once one of the greatest (fictional) bands in rock n' roll history. But at the peak of their fame, they decide to disband. What went wrong?

So many of you were excited about this pick, which Reese Witherspoon has already snatched up for a TV adaptation.

BuzzFeed Book Club member Catherine Castillo recommends reading this one as an audible book. "The cast is amazing!"

Happy reading y'all, and don't forget to respond to our first impressions thread in the Facebook group once you're done.

Behind the Book: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid shares with the BuzzFeed Book Club the origins of Daisy Jones & The Six and she goes even in more depth on this week's AM to DM:

"In 2013, one of my favorite bands, The Civil Wars, broke up abruptly with little explanation. For years afterward, I would get the thought in my head to try googling them just one more time in the hopes that either member of the duo, Joy Williams or John Paul White, might have finally gone on the record about why they broke up. But they never did.

They joined the ranks of other unknown rock stories for me, questions that loom over some of the biggest myths in music: What really tore apart the Beatles? What made Pink Floyd's breakup get so ugly? What goes on backstage as Fleetwood Mac fights and reunites over and over?

In real life, we don't often get answers to why our favorite bands break up. So I took all of the mysteries of rock n' roll that had long fascinated me and I turned my attention to fiction.

Daisy Jones and The Six is the story of a fictional 70s rock group that broke up one night after a show in Chicago in 1979 at the height of their fame. Now, it's 40 years later, and they are finally going on the record about why.

It's an ode to classic rock, and, specifically an ode to the women of classic rock. And it allowed me to pretend, for just a moment, that these great legends of rock n' roll might one day go on the record and give us some great, messy answers."

Want to catch up on past BuzzFeed Book Club reads? Pick up The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh, Sugar Run by Mesha Maren, My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, or Family Trust by Kathy Wang. 📖