Excellent Lit Book Club

Excellent Lit Book Club

Location:
Dancing Goats Coffee
419 W. Ponce De Leon Ave.
Decatur, Georgia 30030

As with the Good Lit and the Best Lit and the Better Lit book clubs at A Cappella, we read the most excellent lit, including critical darlings and award-winning or long-listed titles. We love buzzworthy contemporary novels or story collections by national and local authors.

The Excellent Lit Book Club is meets at Dancing Goats on the last Sunday of each month at 4:00 p.m.

Book Club Liaison: Ally StoneWright

Unfortunately, this book club is full and not accepting new members.

Current Selection

Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett

Previous Selections

Red at the Bone: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson

What Are You Going Through? by Sigrid Nunez

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black

Love in Color by Bolu Babalola

Wayward by Dana Spiotta

Beheld by Tarashea Nesbit

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

Atlanta Noir by Tayari Jones

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastasic

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel

Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke 

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

Augustown by Kei Miller

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi Laskar

The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Overstory by Richard Powers

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Florida by Lauren Groff

There There by Tommy Orange