About us
Love to read literary fiction? Frustrated with book clubs that don’t actually read the books? This might be the club for you!
We vote on which literary fiction books we want to read next and meet up once per month to chat about them. Literary fiction usually involves “active” reading that prioritizes meaning, vs popular fiction which usually involves “passive” reading that prioritizes entertainment.
Do we actually talk about the book? Yes!
Do we also have social time and hang out? Yes!
Are men and women both invited? Yes!
There will be no due starting in 2026. If you join as a new member it will tell you there are dues after 90 days, but I will waive them.
We typically meet on the 4th Saturday of the month at 10:00 am in Cumming, GA, but occasionally we'll reschedule to avoid holiday weekends or other conflicts.
Hope to see you soon!
Upcoming events
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Special Event: Tayari Jones "Kin" Book Launch
Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University, 80 Forsyth Street Northwest, Atlanta, GA, USTayari Jones is launching her new book, Kin, at the Rialto Center in Atlanta on February 22! She is the author of Silver Sparrow, which we read last year, plus several other books.
If you'd like to attend, please purchase your own ticket and then RSVP to this event and we can coordinate a carpool for those interested.
Tickets are on sale now here:
https://www.acappellabooks.com/pages/events/1452/tayari-jones-in-conversation-with-pearlI will be buying this type of ticket:
$38 – Reserved Seat + Signed Book: Includes admission and a autographed first edition of “Kin.”Since we already have our March book picked out, we can read this in April!
3 attendees
February: Playground by Richard Powers
Community Cup Coffee House and Bar, 125 Tribble Gap Rd., Suite 103, Cumming, ga, USFebruary's theme is Memory and Identity: Books that explore how memory, relationships, and personal history shape our identity and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.
Your votes are in and the group chose:
Playground by Richard Powers - 2024, 381 pages
Moving between childhood and adulthood, the novel traces a group of people whose early encounters — friendships, losses, moments of wonder — echo across decades, showing how memory and imagination shape the lives we grow into.I've read another book by this author so I'm looking forward to this!
10 attendees
Special Event: FCPL - An Evening With Liz Moore
Forsyth Conference Center, 3410 Ronald Reagan Blvd, Cumming, GA, USThe Forsyth County Public Library is welcoming Liz Moore to the Forsyth Conference Center to talk about her book The God of the Woods. This is not an official book club selection, but if you'd like to read and attend this event I'll join you!
You must register with the library, and registration is now open. These events typically sell out, so I encourage you to claim a free ticket as soon as you can. You do not need a Forsyth County library card to register.
If you get a spot, RSVP here and those attending can meet up for dinner/drinks beforehand!
3 attendees
March: Land of Milk & Honey by C Pam Zhang
Community Cup Coffee House and Bar, 125 Tribble Gap Rd., Suite 103, Cumming, ga, USMarch's theme is: Intimate Stories, Expansive Worlds.
These books are led by intimate narratives with wide horizons, where emotional subtlety and beautiful language carry the weight of larger ideas.Your votes are in and the group chose:
Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang - 2023, 240 pages
Set in a near-future luxury food compound built for the ultra-wealthy, the novel follows a young chef whose dream job slowly reveals itself as a moral reckoning about desire, power, and what it means to nourish others in an unequal world.This has been on my TBR list for a while so I can't wait to read it!
5 attendees
Past events
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