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!
At Volumes in Wicker Park every FIrst Thursday of the month:
Past book club selections:
2021
March: The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
2020
January: BOTM - Outline by Rachel Cusk; SFF - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; Feminist - In the Dream House by Carmen 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
