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 April - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Sara & Bob's Home, Address provided to those who RSVP, Santa Monica, CA, USFor April, we'll be discussing *The Buffalo Hunter Hunter *by Stephen Graham Jones. This will be an in-person event at Bob & Sara's home in Santa Monica, with zoom access for those who can't make it in person.
The in-person event is a potluck. Please bring something to share with the group. The discussion will start from 5:30, and we'll turn on the zoom at that time for the people joining remotely.
A NYT bestseller and “horror masterpiece” from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. In other words, something a little different from our usual selections.
From Amazon: (https://amzn.to/49dBYeZ)
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
The address and zoom links will be sent out the day before the event. We hope that you can join us. If so, please RSVP. If your plans change and you are no longer able to attend, please update your RSVP. No shows will be removed from the group.
12 attendees
LA LitFans Meetup for May - The Sellout by Paul Beatty
·OnlineOnlineHello LA LitFans. For May, we'll be discussing *The Sellout *by Paul Beatty.
The Sellout was winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. It was named one of the best books of by NYT Book Review and the Wall Street Journal.
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant.
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.
16 attendees
LA Lit Fans Meetup for June
·OnlineOnlineFor June, we'll be reading Endling by Maria Reva. (Note: this is a replacement for the previous choice of Clockers due to length.)
Longlisted for the Booker Prize. A best book of the year for Washington Post, New Yorker, NPR, Publisher's Weekly, Guardian, and others.
From Amazon:
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the mail-order bride industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness.
The zoom link will be sent out the day before the event. We hope that you can join us. If so, please RSVP. If your plans change and you are no longer able to attend, please update your RSVP. No shows will be removed from the group.
10 attendees
LA LitFans Meetup for July: A Far-Flung Life
·OnlineOnlineFor July, we'll be discussing A Far-Flung Life by M. L. Stedman.
https://amzn.to/4tlQBEAWe 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 author of The Light Between Oceans comes a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia—about tragedy, family secrets, and the enduring power of love.Remote Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a vast sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered. And then, tragedy revisits when a twist of consequences claims the life of one sibling, and leads another to give up everything for the sake of an innocent child. Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey for which there is no map, no guide. The secrets at the heart of this gutting and beautiful story force him to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.
3 attendees
Past events
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