| Date | Host | Book | Genre & Pages |
| Thursday 30 January 2025 | Grace | Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, by Edward Dolnick | non-fiction, history (352 pages) |
| Thursday 27 February 2025 | Maren | ||
| Thursday 27 March 2025 | Felix? | ||
| Thursday 24 April 2025 | Stef? | ||
| Thursday 29 May 2025 | Kaja? | ||
| Thursday 26 June 2025 | Heddwen | ||
| Thursday 31 July 2025 | Kiki? | ||
| Thursday 28 August 2025 | David? | ||
| Thursday 25 September 2025 | |||
| Thursday 30 October 2025 | |||
| Thursday 27 November 2025 | |||
If your name has a question mark, it means I would like to give you that month, but I haven’t checked it with you yet. By all means, reach out to me and tell me if that month works for you or not.
The host is expected to announce their book at least two months in advance. Want to announce it even earlier? That’s fine!
How to choose a book:
- We have found that the best discussions are about books that were also new to the host. Something you have been meaning to read for a while, but haven’t yet. Picking a book you love is dangerous, because your love for it can discourage others from voicing their opinion, and stifle the discussion. We don’t forbid it, but we don’t advise it.
- If you are not sure what to choose, you can select three options and put it to a vote in the WhatsApp group.
- We love book club for making us read books we would have never picked ourselves. At the same time, reading books outside your comfort zone for months on end can become tiresome. For this reason, we try to limit niche genres or topics. That doesn’t mean we never read these, just not too often. Niche genres include: (political) non-fiction, classic sci-fi, artist memoirs, translated works that are very country or culture-specific, horror, self-help, spirituality. If a book like that has been read quite recently, please choose another genre. If you’re uncertain if your selection is too niche, just ask in the WhatsApp group.
- In extremely rare cases, a book might be rejected by the experienced members of the group, and you will be asked to make a different choice.
Established book club members can, to a limited extent, join other book club meetings, for example if they are unavailable for their regular evening. The Tuesday schedule is here, the Thursday schedule is here. Message Heddwen a few days before the meeting to get the location.
(The Thursday group doesn’t have a meeting in December because so many people aren’t around on that day. The Wednesday and the Tuesday groups DO have meetings in December, so Thursday-group members are invited to join them.)
We never change dates, not even if the host has to cancel due to illness or similar. In that case the host can send their questions to another member (often, but not necessarily, Heddwen), and the book club evening goes ahead at Heddwen’s place or in a public location.
Past books:
| Date | Host | Book | Genre |
| Heddwen | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Mark Haddon | Young adult/ Mystery. | |
| Dani | Walk through walls / Marina Abramovic | Memoir | |
| Grace | The Circle / Dave Eggers | Dystopian thriller | |
| Heddwen | No book. Social meetup at Weihnachtsmarkt. | Christmas! Also: Freezing German cold. | |
| Felix | Book club movie night: Blade Runner | | |
| Felix | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Philip K. Dick | The science fiction novel from 1968 that inspired Blade Runner | |
| Bec | Good Omens / Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. | Fantasy/ humour | |
| Cindy | Primate change / Vybarr Cregan-Reid | non-fiction | |
| Kiki | The Hours / Michael Cunningham | Character-driven, historical novel (230 pages) | |
| Lisa | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow / Gabrielle Zevin | Character-driven novel (416 pages) | |
| Rike | Educated / Tara Westover | Memoir (352 pages) | |
| Heddwen | Picnic! | | |
| Martina | QualityLand / Marc-Uwe Kling | Science fiction (352 pages) | |
| Heddwen | The Dictionary of Lost Words / Pip Williams | Character-driven, historical novel (432 pages) | |
| Jens | Snow Crash / Neal Stephenson | Classic SF (448 pages) | |
| Maren | The Whisper Man / Alex North | Horror (400 pages) | |
| Grace | Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver | Modern version of classic Dickens (560 pages) |
| Date | Host | Book | Genre |
| Grace | Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver | Modern version of classic Dickens (560 pages) | |
| No book: Xmas meetup | |||
| Felix | Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis | Rediscovered novella (120 pages) | |
| Bec | Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Historical fiction (320 pages) | |
| Stef | The Fraud by Zadie Smith | Novel based on real historical events (464 pages) | |
| Kiki | ‘Hard Boiled Wonderland and the end of the world’ by Haruki Murakami | Novel (416 pages) | |
| David | Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant | non-fiction (496 pages) | |
| Esther | My sister the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite | Novel (240 pages) | |
| Lisa | Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie | non-fiction (352 pages) | |
| Caoimhe | Prophet Song by Paul Lynch | Novel (320 pages) | |
| Rike | Baumgartner by Paul Auster | Novel (200 pages) | |
| Martina | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Novel (400 pages) | |
| Jens | After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield | spiritual wisdom (336 pages) | |
| Christmas meetup |
| Date | Host | Book | Genre & Pages |
| Thursday 30 January 2025 | |||
| Thursday 27 February 2025 | |||
| Thursday 27 March 2025 | |||
| Thursday 24 April 2025 | |||
| Thursday 29 May 2025 | |||
| Thursday 26 June 2025 | |||
| Thursday 31 July 2025 | |||
| Thursday 28 August 2025 | |||
| Thursday 25 September 2025 | |||
| Thursday 30 October 2025 | |||
| Thursday 27 November 2025 | |||
(Empty table makes Heddwen’s life easier once a year)