Here’s what The Drinking Club with a Reading Problem has selected for its meetings. Are any of these “book club” books? Not really. Did we enjoy them? Depends on who you ask. We have a lot of mixed feelings.

 

Behold, the list:

The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Girls by Emma Cline

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

The Nix by Nathan Hill

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel