I’m going to be running a short book club (we only meet three times) for college undergraduates soon and I’m really excited! I’ve written down a few ideas but I’m curious – what would you recommend for college undergraduates these days? I’m going to the library tomorrow to browse, so I’ll take the names of suggestions with me! Thanks in advance.
by kongfrontation
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By “short book club,” do you mean books that are short or that the club will not be together all that long?
If literal “short” books maybe Heart of Darkness. If you can go longer and you want to start them with best if the modernist best then: To the Lighthouse. Something more current? Then maybe Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro or James by Everett.
Babel by RF Kuang
Got one that I think no one else will suggest:
Matt Ruff (who you may know because his *Lovecraft Country* was picked up by HBO), try his [Fool on the Hill](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71840.Fool_on_the_Hill?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16)
If club members didn’t do a lot of the traditional HS reading, maybe some of the classics like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Great Gatsby? Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Huckleberry Finn, etc.
Another approach would be to seek out the books that are most likely to be challenged in schools and read a few of them. Oh, wait. Same list as above. /s
You could also do related books, like Huckleberry Finn and its modern retelling James and its origin story, the Odyssey.