| Date | Host | Book | Genre & Pages |
| Mana | A visit from the goon squad by Jennifer Egan | Novel (288 pages) | |
| Tuesday 4 February 2025 | Morgan | Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Namjoo | South-Korean feminist fiction (179 pages) |
| Tuesday 4 March 2025 | Claudia | ‘In times of fading light’ by Eugen Ruge. | translated German novel (432 pages) |
| Tuesday 1 April 2025 | Marie | ||
| Tuesday 6 May 2025 | Charlotte | ||
| Tuesday 3 June 2025 | Heddwen | ||
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| Tuesday 7 October 2025 | |||
| Tuesday 4 November 2025 | |||
| Tuesday 2 December 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 Wednesday schedule is here, the Thursday schedule is here. Message Heddwen a few days before the meeting to get the location.
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.
Previous schedules
| Date | Host | Book | Genre & pages |
| Heddwen | Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis | Rediscovered novella (120 pages) | |
| Marilyn | Spare by Prince Harry | Memoir (416 pages) | |
| Maren | Gun Love by Jennifer Clement | Novel (230 pages) | |
| Lars | The World Jones Made by Phillip K. Dick | Classic SF from the 1950s (208 pages) | |
| Marceline | Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield | Horror (240 pages) | |
| Andy | Big Swiss by Jen Beagin | Novel (336 pages) | |
| Bettina | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie | Memoir (224 pages) | |
| Anna-Louise | The Secret River by Kate Grenville | Historical novel (334 pages) | |
| Heddwen |
Empty table to make Heddwen’s life easier once a year:
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