Category: Satire
READ FOR BOOKERTHON The End of Everything is a speculative novel set in a future where an unexplained crisis has transformed the world, and strange new life forms coexist with humans. Phillip Tennent makes his living collecting artefacts washed ashore from the English Channel,… Continue Reading “The End of Everything – M John Harrison”
Category: Absurdist, Adventure, Booker Prize, Dystopian, Existentialist, Experimental fiction, Faith & Religion, Humour, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Satire, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Surreal, UK authorTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2026
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Black Bag follows an unemployed actor who accepts a bizarre job participating in a psychology experiment where he spends a term attending university lectures zipped inside a large black leather bag. Inspired by a real experiment from 1967, this absurdist campus… Continue Reading “Black Bag – Luke Kennard”
Category: Absurdist, Art, Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Existentialist, Experimental fiction, Humour, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Satire, Surreal, UK authorTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2026
READ FOR BOOKERTHON The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny follows two immigrants navigating the quiet ache of isolation in a globalised world. Sonia and Sunny are writers in America, out of tune with their partners and confessing to loneliness and homesickness for their native… Continue Reading “The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny – Kiran Desai”
Category: Art, Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Cultural, Family drama, Immigrant story, Indian fiction, Literary fiction, Magical Realism, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, SatireTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Three women – a maverick biologist and two sisters embroiled in the Russian bride industry and searching for their missing mother – kidnap 13 hopeful bachelors and race across Ukraine trying to find a mate for a last-of-its-kind Lefty… Continue Reading “Endling – Maria Reva”
Category: Absurdist, Adventure, Booker Prize, Climate Fiction Prize, Environmental fiction, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Political, Postmodern Literature, Satire, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE Nadia Amin, a PhD graduate, publishes an article on deradicalisation, and ends up with a job rehabilitating Isis brides in Iraq. Relishing the opportunity to escape her claustophobic mother and broken relationship she realises she needs to heal herself as… Continue Reading “Fundamentally – Nussaibah Younis”
Category: Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Faith & Religion, Female Experience, Humour, Literary fiction, Political, Queer, Satire, UK author, Women's PrizeTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025, Women's Prize
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at the Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen but discovers there are many mysterious goings on, involving deaths, misogyny and the occult. Set in a Polish sanatorium in 1913, The Empusium blends horror,… Continue Reading “The Empusium – Olga Tokarczuk”
Category: Allegory, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humour, Literary fiction, Mthyical/folklore, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Queer, Satire, Surreal, TranslatedTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKERTHON A re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but told from the point of view of the slave, Jim, or James as he prefers to be called in this book. James escapes his owner when he hears he is to be… Continue Reading “James – Percival Everett”
Category: Adventure, Booker Prize, Cultural, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Pulitzer Prize, Satire, US fictionTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Janina lives alone in a desolate, snowy part of Poland near the Czech border. She studies astrology, over analyses everything and has a fiercely protective nature for the animals of the region. She becomes concerned when the police don’t… Continue Reading “Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead – Olga Tokarczuk”
Category: Art, Booker Prize, Cultural, Environmental fiction, Existentialist, Faith & Religion, Female Experience, Gothic, Humour, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Satire, Thriller, Translated, Unreliable NarratorTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS A guerilla gardening group and an immigrant billionaire are both using beautiful New Zealand land illegally. Unsurprisingly they discover one another and clash but when trouble strikes there is benefit in them colluding. A political and eco thriller about… Continue Reading “Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton”
Category: Contemporary fiction, Environmental fiction, Female Experience, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, NZ Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Satire, ThrillerTags: Free Range Bookclub 2024, Kiwi Fiction, Ockham NZ Book Awards
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Gladiators fight to the death to win their freedom In America’s private prisons. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a televised, profit-making programme. This book is an exploration of the American prison… Continue Reading “Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adiej-Brenvah”
Category: Adventure, Allegory, Dystopian, Female Experience, Literary fiction, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Queer, Satire, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, US fiction
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