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Bookety Book Club is a monthly book club highlighting both new releases and backlist titles we love. Sign up to our newsletter to keep in touch with our monthly selection.
We host a monthly in person book club to discuss the book see our event and tickets below. Reading the book of the month is not essential, but prepare for spoilers.
These book clubs are a very fun and casual way to talk books, get recommendations, and meet like minded book lovers. We can't wait to meet you!

Join us this month in reading...
The Granddaughter
by Bernhard SchlinkMay, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them - it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin.
Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her grandfather. Their worlds could not be more different - but he is determined to fight for her.
Bookety Club Events

Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason monthly! Come join us to discuss Mongrel on the 11th of Feb at 7pm. Tickets are essential as spaces are limited and all proceeds go towards the Wanaka Food Bank. We will have books available to shop on the night. Reading the...

Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason monthly! Come join us to discuss So Thrilled For You on the 11th of March at 7pm. Tickets are essential as spaces are limited and all proceeds go towards the Wanaka Food Bank. We will have books available to shop on the...

Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason monthly! Come join us to discuss From Here To The Great Unknown on the 8th of April at 7pm. Tickets are essential as spaces are limited and all proceeds go towards the Wanaka Food Bank. We will have books available to shop...

Please know we have postponed this months zoom until February. Join us to discuss Mongrel on the 4th of February at 7:30pm via Zoom. Reading the book is not essential, but do be prepared for spoilers. These book clubs are a very fun and casual way to talk books, get recommendations,...

Join us to discuss So Thrilled For You on the 26th of February at 7:30pm via Zoom. Reading the book is not essential, but do be prepared for spoilers. These book clubs are a very fun and casual way to talk books, get recommendations, and meet like minded book lovers....
Previous Bookety Club Reads

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake...

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won't understand. She really ought to tell Boy,...

My favourite of all the books I have written. Tayari Jones With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a...

The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or...

A once-in-a-generation story. A novel you'll never forget. From the New York Times bestselling authorSome said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the Van Laars deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying...

Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Marie is strange - tall, a giantess, her elbows and knees stick out, ungainly. At first taken aback by life at the abbey,...

The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag we mounted in the centre of our own landscape. A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233. Jones' body is covered in tattoos but she wants to add one final inking to...

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But...