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
There There by Tommy Orange