What Silent Book Club is Reading: December 2019
One of the things I look forward to every month is the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Silent Book Club meeting. Everyone brings their own book and reads together quietly for an hour, then we all nerd out about books afterward. If you're in the area, you should come hang out with us!
We meet on the second Tuesday of every month and this time we met at the Whetstone branch of the Columbus Metro Library.
We kick off the meeting with a quick round of introductions where everyone says their name and a little about what they're reading. I always take notes and post the full book list the next day.
It's a great way for everyone to learn about books they might like and I've picked up several books I loved based on what people were reading and recommended to the group.
Here's what the group is reading this month:
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater by Alanna Okun
War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
This Is Not Fame by Doug Stanhope
The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr
Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Lawyer Games: After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Dep Kirkland
How to Be You by Caroline Jarvie
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances
Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
Medicus by Ruth Downie
The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown by Blaire Briody
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
There are Silent Book Club chapters throughout and US and several around the world, so if you're not in Columbus, OH, check the events on the SBC website to find one near you!
