Amsterdam Book Club

"Sethe escaped slavery and built a life in Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still haunted by memories of Sweet Home, the farm where she endured terrible violence. When the ghost of her dead baby lingers in the house, the past becomes impossible to keep buried."

🕒 HOW IT WORKS
This is a relaxed, social meetup where readers come together to chat about our current book — no spoilers are off-limits! There are no formal rules — just good company, friendly conversation, and plenty of bookish tangents.

🤍 RSVP CONTRIBUTION
To help keep spots fair and meetups well-organised, we ask for a €5.50 RSVP confirmation for this meetup. Your RSVP includes one drink at the venue.

Join us for a Sunday brunch meetup where we’ll eat together and discuss The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. This meetup has been arranged with the venue as a brunch gathering, so please only RSVP if you’re planning to order food and join us for the meal as well as the discussion.

"On an island where objects keep disappearing and people are forced to forget them, a novelist hides her editor from the Memory Police as daily life becomes smaller, stranger, and more tightly controlled."

🕒 HOW IT WORKS
This is a relaxed, social brunch meetup where we’ll eat together and chat about our current book — no spoilers are off-limits! Because this has been arranged with the venue as a brunch gathering, this meetup is intended for people joining for brunch, not just the discussion.

🤍 RSVP CONTRIBUTION
To help keep spots fair and meetups well-organised, we ask for a €10 RSVP confirmation for this meetup.

"Land is set on a remote Irish peninsula in 1865, where Tomás and his young son Liam are helping map a country still marked by the Great Hunger. But after an unsettling encounter, Tomás begins to unravel, leaving ten-year-old Liam to finish the work and find a way home."

🕒 HOW IT WORKS
This is a relaxed, social meetup where readers come together to chat about our current book — no spoilers are off-limits! There are no formal rules — just good company, friendly conversation, and plenty of bookish tangents.

🤍 RSVP CONTRIBUTION
To help keep spots fair and meetups well-organised, we ask for a €5.50 RSVP confirmation for this meetup. Your RSVP includes one drink at the venue.

Confirm your spot here:

RSVP fees are non-refundable once paid, as spots are limited and planned with the venue. If Amsterdam Book Club cancels or reschedules the meetup and you can no longer attend, your fee will be refunded.

For this Live Author Talk, we’ll be going to see award-winning author Maggie O’Farrell at ILFU in Utrecht.

O’Farrell, best known for Hamnet, will discuss her new novel Land, a sweeping story set in 1865 Ireland about family, grief, nature and the lasting shadows of history. The evening will also include an introduction by Yael van der Wouden, author of The Safekeep.

💡 How it works:
We’ll meet beforehand at Café Vredenburg (📍Vredenburg 39, 3511 BD Utrecht) at 19:00 for a drink before heading to TivoliVredenburg together for the talk starting at 20:00.