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:
September 29th, 2026
Currently Reading:
Mean by Myriam Gurba
snag the august book!
Which book should we read in October?
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August 2026 | Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza
July 2026 | How To Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung
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