About us
Do you love reading literary fiction as much as we do? Do you find yourself finishing a book and wanting to share the experience? Do you miss the experience of reading a book and discussing the deeper meaning and implications with a group?
We meet once a month, either on zoom or in one of our homes, to discuss our latest selection.
Note: There are scammers impersonating the organizers of this book club, offering indie writers the chance to have their book discussed in our group with the payment of a fee. It is a scam. We do not contact writers. The books we read in this group have won or been short listed for a Pulitzer, National Book Award, or Mann Booker prize, been listed as a top read of the year by NYT, and have dozens of copies available at LA-area libraries. If you receive an email from someone claiming to be an organizer of this group and asking for a fee, please report it to Google as a phishing attempt.
Upcoming events
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LA LitFans Meetup for Nov: Country People
·OnlineOnlineFor November, we'll be discussing Country People by Daniel Mason.
https://amzn.to/4xIKegbAlso note that the October book selection has been changed to John of John by Douglas Stuart
We hope you are able to join us for a lively discussion. To attend, please RSVP. If you do RSVP then find you're not able to make it, we ask that you update to not attending. No shows will be removed from the group.
From Amazon:
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere. And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world’s delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas.
The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre—perhaps ridiculous—local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.
9 attendees
LA LitFans Meetup for January: Small Things Like These
·OnlineOnlineFor January, we'll be discussing Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
https://link.amazon/B0j9WzXGxNote: We've moved back the new novels by Barbara Kingsolver and Elizabeth Strout by a month to give members more time to get them. Over the holidays, we'll read this short Christmas-themed novel for discussion in January.
We hope you are able to join us for a lively discussion. To attend, please RSVP. If you do RSVP then find you're not able to make it, we ask that you update to not attending. No shows will be removed from the group.
From Amazon:
A New York Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
8 attendees
LA LitFans Meetup for Feb: Partita by Barbara Kingsolver
·OnlineOnlineThe new novel from Barbara Kingsolver, Partita, has just been released, so we'll read it for our February meeting. If you reserve it at the library now, you may be at the front of the queue for when it becomes available.
https://link.amazon/B08vsxeWVNote: this discussion is being moved from January to February to give members more time to get the book. For January, we'll be reading Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan instead.
We hope you are able to join us for a lively discussion. To attend, please RSVP. If you do RSVP then find you're not able to make it, we ask that you update to not attending. No shows will be removed from the group.
From Amazon:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead, a story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime.
Shifting between past and present, Livia’s decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.
10 attendees
Past events
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