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    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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