Edmonton Lesbian+ Book Club

Hi all, Please take note I've had to change the order of books for January, February, etc (due to availability)! Please check the current reading list! January we'll read Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird . February we'll read Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn. More updates to come! Thanks!

HI all, We've selected a few more titles for the winter. As you know we're reading Calgary author Suzette Mayr's Dr Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall . We don't meet in December. January we're reading Jamaican author Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn's Here Comes the Sun . February it's Fijian author Gina Cole's collection: Black Ice Matter . March is British author Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird .

Such a great discussion of Dawn Dumont's Nobody Cries at Bingo last night, especially with a few new faces. Upcoming reads - September is Vivek Shraya's even this page in white ; October we're reading Red Azalea by Anchee Min and in November we're reading Suzette Mayr's Dr Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall .

Thought some of you would find this amusing: Upcoming:  May 2017:  The Natural Way of Things   by Charlotte Wood  June 2017:   The First Bad Man   by Miranda July July 2017:   The Best Kind of People   by Zoe Whittall August 2017:   Nobody Cries at Bingo   by Dawn Dumont September 2017:   even this page is white   by Vivek Shraya October 2017:   Red Azalea   by Anchee Min November 2017:   Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall   by Suzette Mayr

In honour of the victims of the Quebec City attack, we've chosen two lesbian Muslim authors for February and March: If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan, a young Iranian American author, and A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar, another Arab-American. In April we'll read Michelle Tea's latest, Black Wave . May we'll read Charlotte Wood's  The Natural Way of Things . Some other options we'll likely be adding to our reading list: Emma Donoghue's The Wonder . Zoe Whittall's The Best Kind of People . Stella Duffy's London Lies Beneath . Gina Cole's Black Ice Matter . Tara Clancy's memoir The Clancys of Queens . Nicole Dennis-Benn's Here Comes The Sun . Carellin Brooks' One Hundred Days of Rain . Miranda July's The First Bad Man . We're always taking suggestions! Drop me a note!