Our book club meets monthly and is open to anyone who'd like to join. There is no need to reserve a spot or even buy the book from us, simply show up prepared to discuss the book on the night of the meeting. We do ask that participants please order a drink and/or snack from the bar!
PLEASE NOTE, WE WILL NOT BE MEETING IN NOVEMBER!
DECEMBER
BOTH BOOK CLUBS WILL BE MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23RD
Fiction will meet at 7pm
Nonfiction will meet at 8pm
7pm FICTION BOOK CLUB: MAY WE FEED THE KING by Rebecca Perry
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2026 WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE
A curator is absorbed in the medieval world of a reluctant monarch in this searing debut about what becomes lost over time and what devotion can reanimate.
A curator spends her days reconstructing the past--selecting and carefully arranging furniture, fabrics, and replica food to bring medieval rooms back to life. Whether it's a feast with spilling platters or a table for two littered with small hints of intimacy, it must appear as if the people have just left the room.
After accepting a commission to work on the private quarters of a medieval palace, the curator becomes absorbed in the story of a king almost forgotten by history. As she studies the traces he left behind, the boundary between her own life and his begins to blur.
The King is an unlikely ruler: a man with little appetite for power, hurried to the throne after the sudden deaths of his brothers. At court, doubts about his judgment are whispered from chamber to chamber. Then an unthinkable possibility emerges among the gossip: maybe someone else will take the crown.
A riveting debut from an award-winning poet, May We Feed the King is a story seen through shadows and old slips of paper, heard through cracked doors and murmured breaths. It asks how history takes shape--and how the stories that survive can distort the lives they claim to preserve. Laced with desire and longing, Perry's novel is a searing meditation on the small details and large gaps that make up a life.
8pm NON-FICTION BOOK CLUB: MOTHER IS A PLACE, by Amra Brooks
A story of growing toward motherhood via chosen family, sickness, literature, and nature.
When Amra Brooks' parents split, so did her life--half lived with her queer, punk, addict dad in Los Angeles, and half with her struggling mom in Santa Cruz. With a poetic tone and an eye for rough beauty, Mother is a Place details one girl's dogged search for safety and care, a pursuit that brings her from idyllic literary studies to nannying for an iconic, out-of-control rock star, from her mysteriously collapsing body to the defiant tenderness of motherhood. Says Girlhood author Melissa Febos, Mother Is a Place is "a beautiful and finely told story of becoming, this memoir is both map and guide--to bearing what we are given, the path to home, and all that is possible to build ourselves."