Bring Your Reading Group to BRTD
At Better Read Than Dead we can offer you advice on what to read, help find suitable titles, source reading notes, and now, offer you a comfortable place to meet. Our Reading Group Room, situated out of sight on our top level, is a quiet, comfortable room where you can discuss your latest book. The room has a small kitchen, fridge and all the facilities you need.
Support for Your Book Group
We provide a number of free services for your Book Group
- If you register your Book Group with Better Read Than Dead you will receive a 10% discount on books that your club is reading. For purchases of 10 or more books at one time there is a 15% discount. To do this we recommend choosing a group member each month who is responsible for ordering and picking up the books for the entire group.
- A starter pack on running a book group if needed.
- We are happy to help you select your next Book Group book. You can take books on Approval to give you and your group time to decide what books interest you. Just return the books within a week.
- If you give us your list of books we will order them and hold them behind the front counter for your members to buy.
- We will maintain a list of your Club's selections for your members to consult.
- Reading book discussions questions for books chosen.
- One of our staff members can make a presentation of thought-provoking books to your group - either at the bookstore or at your location.
- If there are particular Sydney authors who you would like to have visit your Book Group, we will make every endeavour to facilitate it.
- If you would like to host your bookclub at Better Read Than Dead, call or email Jane on 95578700 / books@betterread.com.au
Join the Better Read Book Club
With our new renovations complete we now have the perfect location for book groups to meet. Book groups are great for meeting new people, developing friendships, having lively discussion about books and expanding reading tastes. So come along to our Better Read Group each month, or just drop in when you can and join us for some wine, nibbles and conversation.
Our next meeting is on Wednesday 2nd July beginning at 7pm where we will discuss the classic On The Road by Jack Kerouac. Just head on up the stairs at 265 King St Newtown.
July Book
On The Road
Jack Kerouac
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognised as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
'A paean to what Kerouac described as "the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being".'
Sunday Times
August Book
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Attwood
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . .