What we’re about
We are a fun, lively and social book club that meets the last Wednesday of every month in Los Angeles. We are independently run, open to all ages of women and men, and are not limited by any particular genre or category of books. If you have a passion for reading, love meeting new people, and enjoy great conversation, then we encourage you to Get Lit!
We often get asked how we choose our books. At each meetup we ask the group to nominate 4-6 books and we put up a poll on the meetup site for anyone to vote on. Books that are not selected can be nominated again, or sometimes we do a runners-up poll when we are light on nominations.
Here are the books we have read in the past:
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
- Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
- James by Percival Everett
- A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
- A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
- The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
- Milkman by Anna Burns
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- A Long Petal by the Sea by Isabel Allende
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
- The Push by Ashley Audrain
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Anxious People by Frederik Backman
- The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Pauline Bren
- The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
- Across That Bridge by John Lewis
- Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel
- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- How to Behave in a Crowd by Camille Bordas
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Beartown by Frederik Backman
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Daytripper by Fabio Moon
- An American Marriage by Teyari Jones
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Tin Man by Sarah Winman
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
- A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
- While the City Slept by Eli Sanders
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Upcoming events (3)
See all- October 2024: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (hybrid)The Original Farmers Market, Los Angeles, CA
Our book poll winner for October is The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo! (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127278666-the-fox-wife)
We're currently using a hybrid-style meeting, with an option to attend in-person at the Original Farmer's Market and an option to attend remotely via Zoom (we'll have a laptop set up on the table). Please RSVP if you plan to attend using either option. Feel free to come even if you are on the waitlist! The Zoom link for attending remotely will be sent out closer to the date to those who've RSVP'd.
RSVPs will open approximately one month before the event.
To be fair to our more active members, we post the selected book in advance to allow time to borrow from the library, etc.
- November 2024: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (hybrid)The Original Farmers Market, Los Angeles, CA
The winner for our November poll is The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo! (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133286777-the-familiar)
We're currently using a hybrid-style meeting, with an option to attend in-person at the Original Farmer's Market and an option to attend remotely via Zoom (we'll have a laptop set up on the table). Please RSVP if you plan to attend using either option. Feel free to come even if you are on the waitlist! The Zoom link for attending remotely will be sent out closer to the date to those who've RSVP'd.
RSVPs will open approximately one month before the event.
To be fair to our more active members, we post the selected book in advance to allow time to borrow from the library, etc.
- December 2024: Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley (hybrid)The Original Farmers Market, Los Angeles, CA
The winner of our December poll is Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276262-lily-and-the-octopus
We're currently using a hybrid-style meeting, with an option to attend in-person at the Original Farmer's Market and an option to attend remotely via Zoom (we'll have a laptop set up on the table). Please RSVP if you plan to attend using either option. Feel free to come even if you are on the waitlist! The Zoom link for attending remotely will be sent out closer to the date to those who've RSVP'd.
RSVPs will open approximately one month before the event.
To be fair to our more active members, we post the selected book in advance to allow time to borrow from the library, etc.
