Bookety Club
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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...
Tell Me Everything
by Elizabeth StroutBrimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love."
Bookety Club Events
Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason monthly! Come join us to discuss All That We Know on the 10th of December at 7pm. This will be our final local Bookety Club until February 2025. Tickets are essential as spaces are limited and all proceeds go towards the Wanaka...
Previous Bookety Club Reads
‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to...
Between life and death there is a library.When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to...
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...
The eagerly anticipated new novel from the bestselling and beloved author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love Andy's story wasn't meant to turn out this way. Living out of a suitcase in his best friends' spare room, waiting for his career as a stand-up comedian to finally take off, he struggles...
An ordinary day. The end of ordinary life. One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list - drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and...
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love' The Booker Prize JudgesIt is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own...
Meet Adunni, a teenage girl born into a rural Nigerian village.Aged fourteen, she is a commodity, a wife, a servant.She is also smart, funny, curious, with a spirit and joy infectious to those around her.And despite her situation going from bad to worse, she has a plan to escape: she will...
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat – female journalists – are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands, often risking their lives on the...