On Our Shelves

The books we keep pressing into each other's hands

Every monthly pick and perennial favourite, with a line on what it did to the room. Genres alternate; nobody is quizzed.

Essay
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
The essay we return to whenever the conversation turns to space, money and making things.
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Classic
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read across two winters. Still the loudest argument our circle has ever had.
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Fiction
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Short enough for a single evening, long enough to unsettle the whole month.
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Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison
A member called it 'a house that reads you back'. Nobody disagreed.
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Magical realism
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
We drew the family tree on butcher paper. It is still pinned to the wall.
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Criticism
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Our first non-fiction pick, and the reason we now alternate genres.
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Reading with us this month?

The current pick, the discussion guide, and the meeting dates all live in the club room.