Latest Books

Want to know what kinds of books we read? You can find all of our previous selections as well as reviews written by members of our club below. Some they loved, others not so much. We trust you'll make up your own damn mind once you get to turning the pages. Watch out for a few spoilers too!

Books are added each month with our current book being the first in the list! Want to know what we're reading next? You'll have to attend a chapter as we only reveal our next book on the night of our meetings.

The Glass Canoe - David Ireland (1976)

November 01, 2022

Somewhere in the inner western suburbs. Thursday afternoon. February 2023. “I don’t go in for that craft shit. Two schooners of Resch’s love.” The barmaid with the undercut and Nirvana t-shirt sneers silently, her hand squeezing the beer tap. Cold amber fluid is expelled...

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

October 05, 2022

Scott F. Fitzgerald’s story takes place between Long Island and New York in the early 1920s, the time of prohibition in America. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway, a lost soul who in trying to find his place in the world after returning...

400 Days - Chetan Bhagat (2021)

September 07, 2022

There was a cartoon published recently on the web depicting an image of author Chetan Bhagat speaking to a reader. Bhagat’s script balloon says “On a scale of 1 to 10, how bored are you?” The readers response is “11 … and I still...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962)

August 03, 2022

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest tells the story of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a convicted criminal who fakes being insane so can serve his sentence for battery and gambling in a mental hospital rather than at a prison work farm, thinking this will be...

Sharks in the Time of Saviours - Kawai Strong Washburn (2020)

July 06, 2022

This book was acclaimed by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year, but without his unique cultural connection to the material, us mere mortals were left with an interesting read that never completed its promise. The book felt like a deeply...