I run a monthly book club that meets once a month in Shibuya. We meet on the third Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. at a restaurant called Gonpachi. You can find a map here.
Here’s what we’re reading:
8/25- Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (note that this is not the 3rd Sunday of the month)
7/21- The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Past meetings:
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
The Sandman: Vol 1 Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love Among the Chickens by PG Wodehouse
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Sustainable Energy: Without Hot Air by David MacKay
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay)
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Letters for Emily by Cameron Wright
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Black Lizard and The Beast in the Shadow by Rampo Edogawa
Aleph by Paulo Coelho
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Honeymoon in Purdah by Alison Wearing
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
My Life in France by Julia Child
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tales of Terror From the Black Ship by Chris Priestley
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Half Empty by David Rakoff
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin
Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russel
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
World War Z by Max Brooks
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Bed for the Night by David Rieff
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Watchmen by Alan Moore
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Adam’s Curse by Bryan Sykes
