Bangkok Book Club

In Person Meetup

Note: the book club meet following this one Is “Flesh” by David Szalay on Tuesday 06 January 2026.

• What we'll do

Finish reading, then join us in person, share your insights over a meal and/or drink(s) at Bar Storia del Caffè, The Salil Hotel. It’s on Soi Sukhumvit 57 and is a 5-minute walk from BTS Thonglor station.

Approximately 288 pages. It’s available at Kinokuniya Bookstore for 371 baht (https://thailand.kinokuniya.com/bw/9781542016421?cookie=9c0e390f985223ece0ecf7479c49c185&prod=1542016428), for 240 +27 shipping on Shopee, $5.99 on kindle or as an audiobook on audible.com.

Should anyone who RSVP’s be looking for the epub version please send a message to the host.

Synopsis
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

• Important to know

No entrance fee, no membership fees. Your patronage of the cafe is highly appreciated, as usage of their facility is without charge. Expect meal/drink to average 450 baht thereaboutsm

In Person Meetup

• What we'll do

Finish reading, then join us in person, share your insights over a meal and/or drink(s) at Bar Storia del Caffè, The Salil Hotel. It’s on Soi Sukhumvit 57 and is a 5-minute walk from BTS Thonglor station.

Approximately 368 pages. It’s available at Kinokuniya Bookstore for 621 baht https://thailand.kinokuniya.com/bw/9780224099790?cookie=1b3bd6c3f07b9d2703ce9a641303c66c&prod=0224099795, $14.99 on amazon kindle or $19.49 (non-member price) as an audiobook on audible.com (9 hours 36 minutes).

Should anyone who RSVP’s be looking for the epub version please send a message to the host.

Synopsis

Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest, of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he could possibly have imagined.

A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, “Flesh” chronicles a man at odds with himself—estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Shadowed by the specter of past tragedy and the apathy of modernity, the tension between István and all that alienates him hurtles forward until sudden tragedy again throws life as he knows it in jeopardy.

• Important to know

No entrance fee, no membership fees. Your patronage of the cafe is highly appreciated, as usage of their facility is without charge. Expect meal/drink to average 450 baht thereaboutsm