Linkki’s book club gathers about once a month to discuss a chosen work. Gathering times and book suggestions are discussed in the book club’s telegram group. Gatherings have mostly been held on sundays at Musta Kynnys.
Our democratic process works as follows:
- We choose the next criteria at the end of a gathering (e.g. genre, subject, type…)
- Openly discuss book suggestions fitting the criteria (criteria fitness is for anyone to speculate)
- We vote!
- Independently reading the chosen work
- We gather!
Previously read works and their criteria
You are encouraged to participate in the gathering even if you dropped the book midway - discussions revolve quite loosely around and above the subject of the book. You may also read the book in any language, and can listen to it as an audiobook, form is free!
Kallis elämä - Alice Munro
Criteria: easily approachable work
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut**
Criteria: classic
Valtakunta tästä maailmasta - Alejo Carpentier
Criteria: Caribbean literature/auther
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Criteria: previously suggested, but never chosen work
The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
Criteria: Chinese literature/author
Kukkia Algernonille - Daniel Keyes
Criteria: moving work
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
Criteria: work with a film rendition
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick
Criteria: non-fiction
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Criteria: wildcard - anything on your reading list
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Criteria: dystopias and utopias
The tatttooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
Criteria: recommended to you by someone
En voi lakata ajattelemasta kuolemaa - Venla Pystynen
Criteria: first-person narrator
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Criteria: found by physically looking through a library, i.e. no googling
Olemisen sietämätön keveys - Milan Kundera
Criteria: author died in the 2020’s
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Criteria: authored by a philosopher
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Criteria: horror
Työmiehen vaimo - Minna Canth
Criteria: realism
Sadan vuoden yksinäisyys - Gabriel Garcìa Márques
Criteria: you’ve read it and never forgotten it