Blah Blah Book Club: January 2026 meetup

This month, we will be reading and discussing Booth by Karen Joy Fowler, long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize, from our Open Choice category.

BLURB - This is the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin. As the children of Junius Booth, the patriarch, grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (496 pages)

Happy reading!