Say you’re a person who needs good books to read, and say you like chatting with people about good books and say you’d like it if some people you trust recommended good books to you and say they’re recommending books before they’re even available in stores. Have we got some book clubs for you.
You prefer fiction and memoir? Here’s what the Rumpus Book Club has read just since the start of this year: Tenth of December by George Saunders, The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp, American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor and On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman.
Poetry is more your speed? Here’s what the Poetry Book Club has read this year: Articulated Lair by Camille Guthrie, Young Tambling by Kate Greenstreet, Debts & Lessons by Lynn Xu and Striven, The Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge.
Want to know what we’re reading in May?
The Poetry Book Club is reading Gregory Orr’s latest collection, River Inside the River, which won’t be available in stores until the first week of June. Plus, members get to chat with Orr online at the end of May.
The Book Club is reading Elliott Holt’s debut novel, You Are One of Them, which Karen Thompson Walker calls “a surprising story of friendship and loss, but also a meditation on history and a reminder of how global events can reverberate through the smallest moments of ordinary lives.” We’ll be chatting with Holt at the end of May as well.
Can’t decide which club to join? Why not join both? Great books and terrific conversation with both fellow book lovers and with authors. Where else can you find that combo? Only in the Rumpus Book Clubs.
