
Bookety Club
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Bookety Book Club is a monthly book club highlighting both new releases and backlist titles we love. Sign up to our newsletter to keep in touch with our monthly selection.
We host a monthly in person book club to discuss the book see our event and tickets below. Reading the book of the month is not essential, but prepare for spoilers.
These book clubs are a very fun and casual way to talk books, get recommendations, and meet like minded book lovers. We can't wait to meet you!

Join us this month in reading...
Mongrel
by Hanako FootmanMei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran.
Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Lonely and far from home, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher.
Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo's nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in seedy bars. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light . . .
Bookety Club Events

Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason monthly! Come join us to discuss Mongrel on the 11th of Feb at 7pm. Tickets are essential as spaces are limited and all proceeds go towards the Wanaka Food Bank. We will have books available to shop on the night. Reading the...

Please know we have postponed this months zoom until February. Join us to discuss Mongrel on the 4th of February at 7:30pm via Zoom. Reading the book is not essential, but do be prepared for spoilers. These book clubs are a very fun and casual way to talk books, get recommendations,...

Join us to discuss So Thrilled For You on the 26th of February at 7:30pm via Zoom. Reading the book is not essential, but do be prepared for spoilers. These book clubs are a very fun and casual way to talk books, get recommendations, and meet like minded book lovers....

Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason monthly! Come join us to discuss From Here To The Great Unknown on the 8th of April at 7pm. Tickets are essential as spaces are limited and all proceeds go towards the Wanaka Food Bank. We will have books available to shop...

Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason monthly! Come join us to discuss So Thrilled For You on the 11th of March at 7pm. Tickets are essential as spaces are limited and all proceeds go towards the Wanaka Food Bank. We will have books available to shop on the...
Previous Bookety Club Reads

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Between life and death there is a library.When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to...

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Meet Adunni, a teenage girl born into a rural Nigerian village.Aged fourteen, she is a commodity, a wife, a servant.She is also smart, funny, curious, with a spirit and joy infectious to those around her.And despite her situation going from bad to worse, she has a plan to escape: she will...

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat – female journalists – are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands, often risking their lives on the...