Hot take: My book club finally stopped hating on genre fiction after one conversation

For like 8 months straight our group only read literary novels. Classics, award winners, all that. Nobody said it out loud but we were all getting bored. Last month I brought up The Martian by Andy Weir as a joke suggestion. One of the members who always pushed for the serious stuff actually said 'fine let's try it' just to shut me up. We read it in two weeks instead of the usual month. The discussion was way more lively than anything we'd had before. People were arguing about the science, laughing about jokes, actually finishing the book. Now we're rotating between genres every other pick. Has anyone else seen their group open up like this after sticking to one thing for too long?

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luna58928d ago

My book club had this same problem until we did a whole month of murder mysteries. The discussions went from boring to people actually getting mad at each other about who did it and why. Now we do a poll every three months to pick the next genre and it keeps everyone way more into it.

fisher.charlie28d ago

My book club did something similar but it backfired when someone chose a historical romance and a few people REFUSED to read it. We had a whole drama about whether love scenes counted as literature.