Book Clubs

UPDATE ABOUT REGISTRATION BOOK CLUBS AT THE LITTLE BOOKSHOP

We have a high demand for our Expert and Intermediate Book Clubs and not everyone is able to get in because not everyone is able to answer immediately. That's why we've decided to try (let's see if it works) another system. You all have the entire day to answer the email and tell us which expert book club you want to register to. Then the next evening, 7 people will be randomly picked for the themed book club and the book pick! We hope this will make everything fair and easier for you all :)

Just a friendly reminder that we read the books in English in advance, so we can discuss everything about the book/author.
With the book pick we all read the same book in advance and with the themed book club you choose your own book that fits the theme ;)

Beginner (A1-A2) - we try in English!

Next book club

Title: What You Are Looking For Is In The Library
Author: Michiko Aoyama

Level: A2+ (Penguin Readers)

Date: 12th of September from 09.00-10.30
Places available: 1 place available

Location: at our shop
Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5

There will be snacks/sweets

"Sayuri Komachi is a librarian who recommends books and gives gifts to people. She helps them find what they are really looking for in life. The books and gifts are special for each person. They show them that life might not always be easy, but it can still be wonderful."

Intermediate (B1-B2)

Next book theme

Theme: Dystopian novels

Date: 3rd of October from 09.00-10.30

Places available: FULL
Location: at our shop

Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5

There will be snacks/sweets

October is Halloween. To me, dystopian novels can be scary... in the sense "please world don't go in this direction". So which one is the most scary one for you? Which one do you want to re-read or discover?

Expert Book Theme

Theme: Dragons

Date: 5th of September from 09.00-10.30

Places available: FULL

Location: at our shop

Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5

There will be snacks/sweets

I mean, with a dragon as logo you cannot not have a book club about dragons! So we'll start our new season of book clubs with our favorite fantasy theme: dragons! Can't wait to discover your dragon stories.

Expert Book Pick

Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Author: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Date: 26th of September from 09.00-10.30

Places available: FULL

Location: at our shop

Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5

There will be snacks/sweets

Because everyone is so enthusiastic about our letter project; now we have a book club pick about letters!

"It’s 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer’s block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society."

Expert ONLINE (with author!!)

Title: The Swarm (#2)

Author: Anna February

Date: 24th of August from 20.00-21.30

Places available: FULL

"Royal maverick Niko and bodyguard Feldspar have been tasked by their queens to lead a swarm – an exploration – in search of a new world outside their twisted monarchy. What they find beyond the Hive is a paradise – but is it too perfect to trust? When two brutal murders happen on the same night, the royal visitors are the prime suspects. With danger closing in and their feelings for each other growing, Niko and Feldspar must fight to clear their names before paradise becomes a prison..."

Expert ONLINE (for readers outside Rennes)

Title: The Correspondent

Author: Virginia Evans

Date: 28th of September from 20.00-21.30

Places available: FULL

Price: €3 if you already have the book / if you want us to send the book to you, it'll be €20 incl. delivery fee (locker)!

We will send the link to the Book Club after receiving payment :)

Theme (besides dragons) this month is letters! So we also have a book pick full of letters for the Online Book Club.

"Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters. To her children. Her favourite authors. Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her doctor. Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club. All receive Sybil’s witty, wise correspondence, rich with everyday concerns. But there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life. To post it, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself. The hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send."

Expert ONLINE (for readers outside Rennes)

Title: The Kite Runne

Author: Khaled Hosseini

Date: 23rd of November from 20.00-21.30

Places available: 4 places available

Price: €3 if you already have the book / if you want us to send the book to you, it'll be €21.50 incl. delivery fee (locker)!

We will send the link to the Book Club after receiving payment :)

In November, we like to choose books thar are banned or challenged.

"Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption."

If you see a book/theme you're interested in and would like to register, send us an email with subject line "Book Club" to contact@thelittlebookshop.fr.

Previous books/themes

BEGINNER in 2026

- June

'The Mill on the Floss' (A2+)

- 4 April

'Lion' (A2+)

- 7 February

'I Capture the Castle'

in 2025
- 6 December

'Clouds of California' (A2+)

- 4 October

'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry' (B1)

- 5 July
'Me Before You' (A2+)
- 10 May

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (A2)

- 1 March
'Women Who Changed The World' (A2+)
- 11 January

'Sherlock Holmes Short Stories' (A2)

in 2024

- 2 November

'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (A1+)

- 7 September

'Treasure Island' (A1)

INTERMEDIATE in 2026

- 4 July

'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

- 9 May

Theme: friendship

- 7 March
'Dubliners' (level B1+)

- 3 January

Theme: The book you always wanted to read

in 2025

- 8 November

'Brave New World' (level B2+)

- 6 September

Theme: Pre-Halloween

- 14 June

‘Fahrenheit 451’ (level B2)

- 5 April
Theme: Feminism

- 2 February
'Lord of the Flies' (B2+)
in 2024
- 7 December
Theme: Relationships
- 5 October

'Animal Farm' (B1-B2)

EXPERT in 2026

- 24 August (online with author)

'The Swarm'

- 6 June

Big Book Club

- 25 May (online)

'Ordinary Saints'

- 23 May

'The Names'

- 19 April (brunch)
Theme: Jane Austen
- 28 March
'Yellowface'
- 14 March
Theme: Strong female lead
- 21 February

Theme: Mythologies around the World

-15 February

'Sugar and Sorcery' with author

- 25 January (online)

'Sky Fyll of Elephants'

- 17 January
Six book clubs at the same time

in 2025
-15 November

'The Bluest Eye'

- 29 November
Theme: Historical Novel

- 27 October (online)

'The Familiar'

- 25 October

'Jackal' - interview author
- 11 October
Theme: Murder Mystery
- 27 September

Theme: Dark Academia
- 13 September
'The Hive' with author
- 28 June

'The Song of Achilles'

- 21 June

Theme: Pride Month

- 31 May
Theme: Translated Work
- 17 May
‘Whale Fall’ - interview author
- 26 April
'Glorious Exploits'
- 19 April
Theme: About the World of Books
- 29 March
Theme: Feminism
- 15 March
'No Place Left to Hide' with author
- 22 February
'Open Water'
- 8 February
Theme: Book Crush
- 25 January
Theme: Classics

- 18 January

Theme: Classics
in 2024

- 30 November

'And Then She Fell'

- 16 November
Theme: Banned Books

26 October

Theme: Halloween

28 September
'I Who Have Never Known Men'