Need some new reads? We've got you covered.
Volumes book clubs are informal - just pick up the book and drop by for the discussion to chat with some friendly people about this month's selection.
No pressure - we're more dorky than intellectual. We just want to drink coffee (or beer, or wine) and hear what you thought!
Unless otherwise specified, book clubs meet the Second Tuesday of every other month!
Book of the Month: The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club: Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer
Feminist Book Club: All About Love by Bell Hooks
Past Book Club Selections:
2020
January: BOTM - Outline by Rachel Cusk; SFF - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; Feminist - In the Dream House by Carment Maria Machado
2019
May: BOTM - The Emissary by Yoko Tawada; SFF - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami; Feminist - The New Me by Halle Butler; Transgender Authors Book Club - Transgender History by Susan Stryker
April: BOTM - Who Killed My Father by Edouard Louis; SFF - Ambiguity Machines by Vandana Singh; Feminist - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby; Transgender Authors Book Club - Sissy by Jacob Tobia
March: BOTM - The Book of Delights by Ross Gay; SFF - Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff; Feminist - Rag by Maryse Meijer; Transgender Authors Book Club - Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
February: BOTM - McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh; SFF - How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemison; Feminist - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Transgender Authors Book Club - You Only Live Twice by Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom
January: BOTM - Certain American States by Catherine Lacey; SFF - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers; Feminist - To Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ; Transgender Authors Book Club - Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
2018
July: BOTM - Tin Man by Sarah Winman; SFF - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal; Feminist - Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde; NEW! Trans & Gay Authors Book Club - Gender Outlaws by Kate Bornstein
June: BOTM - In the DIstance by Hernan Diaz; SFF - American Hippo by Sarah Gailey; Feminist - Nevada by Imogen Binnie
May: BOTM - The Tyrant by Stephen Greenblatt ; SFF - The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang; Feminist - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
April: BOTM - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin ; SFF - Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente; Feminist - How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
March: BOTM - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn ; SFF - Binti Triology by Nnedi Okorafor; Feminist - The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
February: BOTM - The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib; SFF - Semiosis by Sue Burke; Feminist - Communion: The Female Search for Love by Bell Hooks
January: Book Club Trifecta! - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
2017
December: See Above
November: The Secret Place by Tana French, Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay (Feminist), Autonomous by Annalee Newitz (Sci-fi)
October:Tell me How it Ends An Essay in 40 Questions By Valeria Luiselli ,The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Feminist) Lovecraft Country By Matt Ruff (,Sci-fi Book Club)
September: Found Audio N.J. Campbell , The Argonauts By Maggie Nelson (Feminist ), Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer (Sci-Fi)
August: Devil in a White City, Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie (Sci-Fi), Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (Feminist)
May: A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval, Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur (feminist), Binti by Nnendi Okoafor (Sci-fi)
April: The Lost City of Z by David Grann, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a GIrlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
March: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
February: Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash (Volumes), Women Race & Class by Angela Davis (Feminist), and Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (Sci-fi)
January: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins (Volumes), Beloved by Toni Morrison (Feminist), and The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (Sci-fi)
2016
November: Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Watkins, Trainwreck by Sady Doyle (Inaugural Feminist), The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (Sci-fi)
October: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Sci-fi)
September: The Vegetarian by Han Kang, Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein (Sci-fi)
August: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (Sci-fi)
July: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
June: Chicago by Brian Doyle
May: Neverhome by Laird Hunt
April: Bottomland by Michelle Hoover
