Junior High hosts a monthly Book Club featuring book selections written by women, people of color, queer writers, and other marginalized voices in the literary community. Book Club is facilitated by Xueyou (she/they) & Ray (they/them)

Junior High Book Club is open to all ages and is completely free. Anyone of any gender can join while priority speaking privilege is given to our marginalized members.

Next
Meetup:

July 28, 2026

Currently Reading:

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung

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  • June 2026 | ZAMI: A new spelling of my name by Audre Lorde
    May 2026 | The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
    September 2024 | All Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
    August 2024 | Open Throat by Henry Hoke
    July 2024 | Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
    June 2024 | Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
    May 2024 | Rouge by Mona Awad
    April 2024 | Vagablonde by Anna Dorn
    March 2024 | Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
    February 2024 | There, There by Tommy Orange
    November 2023 | Freeway: La Movie by Jorge Enrique Lage
    October 2023 | Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
    September 2023 | Paradis by Fernanda Melchor
    August 2023 | Identtiti by Mithu Sanyal
    June 2023 | Sin is a Puppy that Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu
    May 2023 | Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
    April 2023 | Everything Happens as it Does by Albena Stambolova
    March 2023 | Straight from the Horse’s Mouth by Meryem Alaoui
    February 2023 | Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savičević
    January 2023 | Notes on a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
    December 2022 | Cult Classic by Sloan Crosley
    October 2022 | Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
    September 2022 | Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
    August 2022 | Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola
    June 2022 | The Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
    May 2022 | Chemistry by Weike Wang
    April 2022 | Sula by Toni Morrison
    March 2022 | The Swimmers by Julie Otsuko
    February 2022 | Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
    January 2022 | We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
    December 2021 | If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
    October 2021 | Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
    September 2021 | Tuff by Paul Beatty
    August 2021 | There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
    July 2021 | Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
    June 2021 | The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
    May 2021 | Paul takes the form of a mortal girl by Andrea Lawlor
    April 2021 | Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
    March 2021 | Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
    February 2021 | Memorial by Bryan Washington
    January 2021 | A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
    December 2020 | Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
    November 2020 | Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
    October 2020 | Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
    September 2020 | You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
    August 2020 | Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
    July 2020 | My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
    June 2020 | Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
    May 2020 | The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
    April 2020 | Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
    March 2020 | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
    February 2020 | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
    January 2020 | Taína by Ernesto Quiñonez