The LARB Book Club

The LARB Book Club is one of the Los Angeles Review of Books’s signature membership perks where we discuss the seasonal selection directly with the author on our podcast and have an online discussion with members. Past book clubs have featured a range of authors and books, from Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird, and Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends to Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem, Kink ed by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, George Saunders’s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,  Kate Evans’s graphic novel Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, and K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want. 

LARB Friend-level members get a copy of the book along with the conversation, and LARB Supporter-level members are welcome to join the conversation and take advantage of discounts at participating bookstores around the country. Join today!

Muscle Memory by Jenny Liou

The LA RB Book Club is thrilled to announce our Spring 2023 Book Club reading: Muscle Memory by Jenny Liou! To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the ...

Feb 25

The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas

The Persuaders is the winter 2023 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

Dec 7

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell

The Furrows was the fall 2022 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

Oct 1

Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang

Gods of Want was the summer 2022 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Aug 14

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov

Grey Bees was the spring 2022 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

May 16

Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart

Our Country Friends was the winter 2022 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB ...

Jan 1

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Postcolonial Love Poem was the fall 2021 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB ...

Nov 1

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

Unsettled Ground was the summer 2021 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Aug 2

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain was the spring 2021 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title ...

May 2

Kink ed. by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell

Kink was the winter 2021 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

Jan 31

Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou

Black Moses was the fall 2020 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Oct 19

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

Breasts and Eggs was the summer 2020 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB ...

Jul 27

Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

Merton of the Movies was the spring 2020 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a ...

Apr 1

Life Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov

Life Went on Anyway: Stories was the winter 2020 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become ...

Jan 26

Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

Gun Island: A Novel was the summer 2019 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a ...

Sep 29

The Parade by Dave Eggers

The Parade was the spring 2019 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

May 26

Talent by Juliet Lapidos

Talent was the winter 2019 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

Feb 24

The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard

The Order of the Day was the fall 2018 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become ...

Sep 30

Kudos by Rachel Cusk

Kudos was the summer 2018 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

Jun 17

Gun Love by Jennifer Clement

Gun Love was the spring 2018 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

May 5

The Obama Inheritance by Gary Phillips

The Obama Inheritance was the winter 2017 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB ...

Dec 6

Threads: From the Refugee Crisis by Kate Evans

Threads: From the Refugee Crisis was the summer 2017 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become ...

Jul 6

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Idiot was the spring 2017 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Apr 6

The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle

The Terranauts was the winter 2017 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Nov 17

Paint It Black by Janet Fitch

Paint It Black was the summer 2016 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB ...

Jul 1

Dreamland by Sam Quinones

Dreamland was the spring 2016 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

Jan 22

Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett

Half an Inch of Water was the winter 2015 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become ...

Nov 1

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer was the fall 2015 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Oct 6

Early Warning by Jane Smiley

Early Warning was the summer 2015 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

May 10

The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer

The Art of Stillness was the spring 2015 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become ...

Feb 12

Perfidia by James Ellroy

Perifidia was the winter 2015 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend member ...

Nov 10

Mount Terminus by David Grand

Mount Terminus was the summer 2014 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Sep 22

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Boy, Snow, Bird was the spring 2014 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

May 28

The Color Master by Aimee Bender

The Color Master was the winter 2014 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB ...

Jan 2

Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem

Dissident Gardens was the inaugural fall 2013 LARB Book Club pick. To join the Book Club, where we put you in conversation with editors and members and send a copy of the selected title to your door, become a LARB Friend ...

Oct 2