Wednesday group
| Date | Host | Book | Genre & Pages |
| Wednesday 8 January 2025 | Sarah | Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum | Korean novel (307 pages) |
| Wednesday 12 February 2025 | Polina | Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano | family saga (400 pages) |
| Wednesday 12 March 2025 | Claudia | ||
| Wednesday 9 April 2025 | Priyanka | ||
| Wednesday 14 May 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 11 June 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 9 July 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 13 August 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 10 September 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 8 October 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 12 November 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 10 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 Tuesday 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 books
| Date | Host | Book | Genre |
| Heddwen | The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams | Character-driven, historical novel (432 pages) | |
| Pryanka | No God like the Mother by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher | Short stories (168 pages) | |
| Elenora | I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy | Memoir (320 pages) | |
| Claudia D | Blue Skies by T.C.Boyle | Cli-Fi (377 pages) | |
| Claudia S | Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro | Novel (240 pages) | |
| Amay | The Housemaid by Freida McFadden | Psychological thriller (336 pages) | |
| Kaja | My sister the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite | Novel (240 pages) | |
| Kirby | The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd | Magical mystery (400 pages) | |
| Heddwen | Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie | non-fiction (352 pages) | |
| Cécile | The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai | Japanese novel (208 pages) | |
| Gesina | The Weekend by Charlotte Wood | novel (272 pages) | |
| Max | Yellowface by R. F. Kuang | novel (336 pages) | |
| Date | Host | Book | Genre |
| Heddwen | Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn | Language-bending novel | |
| Dorothea | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Character-driven novel | |
| Claudia D. | The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | Character-driven novel | |
| Marie | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers | Science Fiction (464 pages) | |
| Elenora | The Possession of Mr Cave by Matt Haig | Horror/ fantasy (256 pages) | |
| Heddwen | Picnic! | | |
| Arantxa | Never Let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro | Speculative fiction (288 pages) | |
| Claudia S. | Wool by Hugh Howey (first of the Silo novels) | Post apocalyptic fiction (576 pages) | |
| Kirby | Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan | Collection of short stories (192 pages) | |
| Maren | The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | non-fiction (381 pages) | |
| Marilyn | The Art Thief by Michael Finkel | biography (240 pages) | |
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| Date | Host | Book | Genre & Pages |
| Wednesday 8 January 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 12 February 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 12 March 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 9 April 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 14 May 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 11 June 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 9 July 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 13 August 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 10 September 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 8 October 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 12 November 2025 | |||
| Wednesday 10 December 2025 |
(This empty table makes Heddwen’s life easier once a year)