About Us

We are an English speaking (and mostly reading) book club in Paris, with members from different countries. Female members are largely outnumbering male members, which are nevertheless heartily welcome.  

The way it works:

• Meetings once a month
• Second Thursday's night of a month
• At a public place or a member's home
• Everybody can propose books at any time and the proposals are placed on the list in order of arrival or on a specific month if requested. If there's no proposal available six weeks before the meeting date, Phoebe will decide for a book.
• Proposed books must be available in English

Examples of read books:

A CHANGE OF CLIMATE	Mantel, Hilary
A FINE BALANCE	Mistry, Rohinton
CHERI	Colette
CHINA TO ME	Hahn, Emily
DAVID'S STORY	Wicomb, Zoe
DEATH OF A RED HEROINE	Qiu Xiaolong
ELEGY FOR EASTERLY	Gappah, Petina
EMPRESS OF WEEHAWKEN	Dischl, Irene
HOMO FABER	Frisch, Max
IN COLD BLOOD	Capote, Truman
IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN	Vizinczey, Stephen
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN	Puig, Manuel
LOLITA	Nabokov, Vladimir
MANGEZ-MOI	Desarthe, Agnès
MEME LE SILENCE A UNE FIN	Betancourt, Ingrid
MISTER PIP	Jones, Lloyd
NANA	Zola, Emile
NOTES ON A SCANDAL	Heller, Zoe
ORYX & CRAKE	Atwood, Margaret
READING LOLITA IN TEHERAN	Nafisi, Azar
STILL ALICE	Genova, Lisa
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE	Williams, Tenessee
THE CONNECTIONS	Franzen, Jonathan
THE GHOST WRITER	Roth, Philip
THE GLASS CASTLE	Walls, Jeannette
THE HELP	Stockett, Kathryn
THE MISSING HEAD OF DAMASCENO MONTEIRO	Tabucchi, Antonio
THE NOTHING MAN	Thompson, Jim
THE PRIVILEGES	Dee, Jonathan
THE READER	Schlink, Bernhard
THE SECRET LIFE OF FRANCE	Wadham, Lucy
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	Lee, Harper
TRISTES TROPIQUES	Lévi-Strauss, Claude
TROPIC OF CANCER	Miller, Henry
UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE	Duras, Marguerite
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN	Shriver, Lionel
WHITE TIGER	Adiga, Aravind