Join a Better Read Book Club
Due to popular demand, we now have two open-to-everyone book groups that meet upstairs in our lovely reading room.
The groups meet on the 2nd and the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7pm. Both groups do different books, so feel free to come along to both and double your fun!
If you would like join us please call us on 9557 8700 or email us at books@betterread.com.au
We do require an RSVP so that we can make sure there's a chair and a glass of wine ready when you get here, so don't be shy!
August books
2nd Wednesday Reading Group
8th September, 7pm
The Human Stain
By Phillip Roth
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.
3rd Wednesday Reading Group
15th September, 7pm
Book TBA
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 Kate on 95578700 / books@betterread.com.au