Giovanni's Room | A Hybrid Book Discussion
Details
- Join your friends and meet new ones as we continue our eighth season of CDGA Queer Lit Book Club and discuss Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. *This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.
OVERVIEW
* One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
- "David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair."
WE ♥ LIBRARIES
- Our event title is available to borrow through the OWWL, Monroe and New York Public Library systems.
WE ♥ INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES
- Noire Reading Room is Rochester's online/pop-up Black Feminist Bookstore, featuring Black, Queer, and Radical texts. Support Noire Reading Room when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
- Archivist Books is a Black, Queer-owned independent bookstore based in Rochester, NY. Support Archivist Books when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
- Ampersand Books is the Neighborhood of the Arts' independent bookstore owned and operated by Writers & Books, Rochester’s leading nonprofit literary arts center. Book club selections are always 15% off!
CREDITS
- Giovanni's room. (n.d.). Penguin. Retrieved February 18, 2026, from https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9780241718599