Book Clubs

Beginner (A1-A2) - we talk in French!

Next book club

Title: Clouds Over California
Author: Karyn Parsons

Level: A2+ (Penguin Readers)

Date: 6th of December from 09.00-10.30
Places available: 2 places available
Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5

There will be snacks/sweets

"Clouds over California is a story about an eleven-year-old girl called Stevie, and the changes that happen in her life when her older cousin comes to stay. It is also about life in the 1970s and important events that changed things in the United States of America for women and Black people."

Intermediate (B1-B2)

Next themed book club

Theme: The One You Always Wanted to Read
Level: B2+

Date: 10th of January from 09.00-10.30

Places available: FULL (waiting list)

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

There will be snacks/sweets

New year means new chances. Which book did you always want to read but didn't find time yet? Now the moment has arrived, let's discuss the one you always wanted to read!

Needs to be written in English (or translated into English)

Expert

Next themed book club

Theme: Historical fiction

Date: 29th of November from 09.00-10.30

Places available: FULL (waiting list)

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

There will be snacks/sweets

Let's get back in time with historical novels! Do you like the Victorian Era, Antiquity, Prehistory, Middle Ages, or a tiny bit more recent?

Expert

Next book club

Title: The Bluest Eye

Author: Toni Morrison

Date: 15th of November from 09.00-10.30

Places available: FULL (waiting list)

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

There will be snacks/sweets

Last year November we did a banned book club so this time I decided to select one of the books on the list and discuss it together!

"Toni Morrison's debut novel immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present."

Expert ONLINE (for readers outside Rennes)

Title: Sky Full of Elephants

Author: Cebo Campbell

Date: 25th of January from 19.30-21.00

Places available: FULL (waiting list)

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 :)

"Set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search of answers. In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?"

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 2025
- 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 2025

- 14 June

‘Fahrenheit 451’ (level B2) - FULL

- 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 2025
- 25 October

'Jackal' - interview author FULL
- 11 October
Theme: Murder Mystery - FULL
- 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'