I am a big reader and this year started a different kind of bookclub where we do a theme each month with a short, classic and modern book option (and usually at least one has a film/tv adaption). This means people can choose their preference, helping if you have already read the book, don't like one of the books or don't have time for a big book. It's been quite a hit for the last 4 months, we have a little PowerPoint where we explain each book and then thematic discussion questions and it can be fun discussion themes and cross overs between the books – so looking for any suggestions anyone for some future books or to edit our current picks (I'm thinking maybe a luck month? Or doing something with Dune when it comes out? I have been told I pick depressing books lol)!
Book Club Months (Examples of format):
January: What is hope when all seems lost?
No Exit (Sartre)
Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
The Memory Police (Ogawa)
February: Would you love me if…?
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Wuthering Heights (Brontë) or Giovanni's Room (Baldwin)
Klara and the Sun (Ishiguro)
March: Is evil a choice?
A Clockwork Orange or Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Stevenson)
The Zone of Interest (Amis)
The Secret History (Tartt) or Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
April: What is it to feel "other"?
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Jackson)
The Stranger (Camus)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Honeyman)
May: How can a story evolve?
We (Zamyatin)
1984 (Orwell)
Wifedom (Funder)
June: Survival – man, woman, or bear?
I Who Have Never Known Men (Harpman)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Into the Wild (Krakauer)
July: How can myths be reimagined?
The Penelopiad (Atwood)
The Odyssey (Homer)
Song of Achilles or Circe (Miller)
August: What makes a good murder mystery?
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Doyle)
And Then There Were None (Christie)
Gone Girl (Flynn)
September: Prometheus – how far is too far?
Prometheus (Aeschylus)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
American Prometheus / Oppenheimer (Bird & Sherwin)
October: What keeps you up at night?
The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson)
Dracula (Stoker)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury)
November: What worlds are shadows of our own?
Tender Is the Flesh (Bazterrica)
Brave New World (Huxley)
Sunrise on the Reaping (Collins)
December: What does it mean to be human?
The Road (McCarthy)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
A Gentleman in Moscow (Towles)
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fr those are depressing