Welcome!

This is Not Your Mother’s Book Club, the beer-and-vibes book club at Zymos Brewing! On the 3rd Sunday of every month, we hold an after-hours book discussion for voracious bibliophiles, and also people who just like books but don’t have time to read. It’s pretty informal, and it’s a fun time over some drinks!

 

More specifically, we choose 3 topics at the beginning of each month, and encourage folks to read a book matching one of those topics. This means that it’s very likely that no two people will have read the same book! We’ll talk about what you read, why you chose it, and then get into the details of what you loved or hated about it.

 

Topics

Here we’ll keep a list of the topics we’ve had, as well as recommended reading for each. The newest one will always be at the top!

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January 19th, 2025:

• A book you were gifted

• A book about new beginnings

• An author's debut novel

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December 29th, 2024:

• A holiday romcom

  • The Nightmare Before Kissmas, by Sara Raasch (and we’re almost all reading it)

• A book set during winter

• A book about/featuring a holiday you don’t know much about!

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November 24th, 2024:

• A cozy fantasy

  • Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

• A fairy tale or myth retold by a BIPOC author

• A book set in a bookstore

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October 27th, 2024:

• A suspense or thriller by a BIPOC author

  • The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

• A horror book for middle graders

  • Any Goosebumps book!

• A closed-room/locked-room mystery

  • Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe

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September 29th, 2024:

• A book recommended by a librarian

  • Courtesy of a friend who was a librarian:

    • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    • The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

• Assigned reading that you either hated or didn't finish

  • Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

• An award-winning book from the year you were born

  • The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy (1987)

 

August 25th, 2024:

• A book you've been intimidated to read

• The book that's been on your TBR the longest

• A book you chose solely based on the cover

 

July 28th, 2024:

• A book that has been banned

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume

  • Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe

  • The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison

  • Sold, by Patricia McCormick

• A history book by a BIPOC author

  • The Making of Asian America, by Erika Lee

  • The Rediscovery of America, by Ned Blackhawk

  • Last Boat Out of Shanghai, by Helen Zia

  • How The Word is Passed, by Clint Smith

  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi

• A book written from prison

  • Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  • Conversations With Myself, by Nelson Mandela

  • In the Belly of the Beast, by Jack Henry Abbott

  • Cherry, by Nico Walker

 

June 30th, 2024:

• An LGBTQIA+ Romance

• An LGBTQIA+ for Middle-Graders

• A Book by a Trans Author About a Trans Character

 

May 26th, 2024:

• Re-read one of your favorite books

• Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books

• Read a book from a genre you wouldn’t normally choose to read