About us
What is the Literary Wineaux Society?
We are a wonderful group of wine lovers and book lovers of all genders who meet up for monthly book club and other events. Our book clubs happen once a month at a local wine establishment on a Wednesday.
How it works? I, Tiffany the host, nominate seven books under one random theme and the group votes on the book they wish to read for that month by placing their vote in the comments. While reading the book is optional (I mean, you gotta come for the great wine!). The list of books are usually a diverse grouping with a mix of fiction and non-fiction (as long as it sticks to the theme).
Buzz Books & Bubbles: A book club discussion about an of-the-moment buzzy book. Expect new releases and books with current TV or film adaptations.
Capote Brunch Society: Like Truman Capote and his Swans we will meet for a weekend brunch where we discuss a long-form article from such outlets as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Membership: Just $10 per year! Newbies get 30 days free to test the waters.
Group Etiquette: Book Club is an investment of time and money. If you are RSVP'd to an event and there is a waitlist, please be mindful of your RSVP and update it as soon as you know you will not be able to make it, so people on the waitlist can have time to read the book. Thank you in advance for your courtesy.
Social Media: Follow us on Instagram @literarywineauxsociety
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Buzz Books & Bubbles: 'Whistler' by Ann Patchett
Bru Grill & Market, 23730 El Toro Road at Rockfield, Lake Forest, CA, USWe are coming full circle at the Literary Wineaux Society OC. Our very first book club pick was Ann Patchett's Tom Lake, now for August we are diving into Ann Patchett's latest novel 'Whistler'.
What's so buzzy about this book? It's currently #2 on the Bookseller Bestseller list (Theo of Golden is still No. 1!) and Barnes & Noble also named it as one of the Best Books of 2026 so far.
Summary
The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.
Book Details:
Page Count: 304
Publish Date: June 2, 2026
Audiobook: 10 hours, 44 minutes. Narrated by the Author
Amazon LinkBook Details: Page Count: 304
Publish Date: June 2, 2026
Audiobook: 10 hours, 44 minutes. Narrated by the AuthorLocation Bru Grill. Bottomless Mimosas and other yummy things. Check out their MENU!
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LWS Sept Book Club: 'Nine Lives' by Catherine Steadman
Wine Gallery Laguna., 1833 S Coast Hwy 110, Laguna Beach, CA, USIt's time for September Book Club! The theme is CBD! Not the gummy kind that gives you a good night's sleep, but an acronym -- CATS, BUNNIES, DOGS!
The Votes are in and the winner is....
'Nine Lives' by Catherine Steadman
When she begins to peer into the lives of her glamorous neighbors, one woman discovers a terrifying secret in this riveting psychological thriller with nine lives worth of twists, from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water, a Reese’s Book Club pick.
“Catherine Steadman more than delivers on the brilliant twists and thrills I’ve come to expect from her writing.”—Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Feast
“A sleek, unsettling puzzle of a novel—a gripping and haunting exploration of identity and the heavy cost of survival.”—Harlan Coben
“Breathtaking. Beautifully told and insanely gripping, with surprises at every turn. I devoured it.”—Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country
Book Summary:
These are your neighbors. One is a killer.
Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighborhood. This is a new chapter in her life. She’s decided to put down roots with Blue, the beautiful Persian cat she left her marriage with.
But little doubts about her perfect new life start to grow, and when Blue returns one night from slipping into places he shouldn’t, Frankie’s concerns solidify. Two words are roughly scratched into his collar: help me. Unsettled and unwilling to ignore the incident, Frankie roots out an old unused “cat cam” collar. What slowly begins as a voyeuristic fascination with her neighbors and the secrets they’re hiding soon turns into a perilous quest for the truth that threatens to bring untold terrors to her doorstep. Amazon Link.Book Details:
Page Count: 304
Publish Date: June 23, 2026
Audiobook: 9 hours, 23 minutes. Narrated by the authorLocation:
Wine Gallery (this will be our last time at the wine gallery until next spring/summer!
Full wine menu, plus cocktails, appetizers, pizza, daily specials, off the menu items. Check out their menu!Parking is located in the free lot under the restaurant off Pearl Street! Or there is street/metered parking.
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LWS October Book Club: Theme - 7 Deadly Sins - Vote Now!!
Location not specified yetSpooky season is upon us and since we always have seven nominations, this month's theme is THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.
Each of the following nominees has a story that highlights one of the 7 Deadly Sins. Please CAST YOUR VOTE in the comments below prior to September Book Club's Meeting. I've uploaded the book covers to photos and added the links to Amazon for further research.
SIN #1 - PRIDE
'American Psycho' by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a narcissistic psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront. Amazon Link.SIN #2 - GREED
'Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism' by Sarah Wynn Williams
Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook believing the company could change things for the better. Instead, what she encountered over seven years was so shocking that Meta obtained a legal order to silence her.
Now you can read her award-winning story. Candid and entertaining, Wynn-Williams’ account pulls back the curtain on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the global elite. She exposes the true cost of Silicon Valley’s ambition, from outrageous schemes cooked up on private jets to the alarming consequences of Facebook’s aggressive pursuit of global dominance.
Careless People is an ordinary woman's gripping and darkly funny memoir that will forever change how you view the technology that runs our lives – and the unchecked power of those who control it. Amazon LinkSIN #3 - LUST
'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin
n 1950s Paris, a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin’s classic novel delves into the mysteries of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Amazon Link.SIN #4 - ENVY
'Rebecca' by Daphne Du Maurier
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century. Amazon LinkSIN #5 - GLUTTONY
'A Certain Hunger' by Chelsea G. Summers
Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both.
But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority. Amazon LinkSIN #6 - WRATH
'Razorblade Tears' by S.A. Cosby
A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.
Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.
The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.
Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.
Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys. Amazon LinkSIN #7 - SLOTH
'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Otessa Moshfegh
a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate. Amazon Link4 attendees
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