Every 2nd Wednesday of the month 6:30pm - 8pm January to October
Our queer book club, led by queer bookseller and local author Neil Cochrane, is open to everyone interested in reading and discussing books by and/or about queer people.
See our 2025 book list and schedule below! (Subject to change)
January 8th A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske: In an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies, two men discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles–and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.
February 12th This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.Â
March 12th Less by Andrew Sean Greer: A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty"
April 9th Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf: a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality.Â
May 14th Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Amfield: an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.
June 11th Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam: A groundbreaking, radically inclusive trans history, Before We Were Trans reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written—and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
July 9th Road to Ruin by Hana Lee: An electrifying, gritty fantasy takes a royal messenger on a high-speed chase across a climate-ravaged wasteland, featuring motorcycles, monsters, and magic.
August 13th Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin: James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
September 10th Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas: a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel.
October 8th Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters by Sacha Coward: Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.
