The Transom Book Club

Lively Discussion, Lovely People, Low Commitment.


Monthly-ish meetings in the neighborhood to discuss an eclectic selection of new and notable fiction. Sign up below for updates.

August Break

Transom Book Club is on summer break through August. Please see below for September and October details.

September 2026

Wednesday, September 23, 2026. Place and time to be confirmed soon.

The Road to Tender Hearts

by Annie Hartnett

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals

Late October (Date to be Confirmed)

This is a special Transom Book Club pick: Keith Rosson will be here at at the shop on Friday, September 25, to sign copies of his newly released novel Crone, which we’ll read and discuss in October. Click below to pre-order Crone for pickup at Transom Bookshop. Use code CLUB20 at checkout for 20% off.

Crone

by Keith Rosson

A haunting, fearsome story of a father searching for his missing daughter and finding darkness—both human and not—at every turn, from the “mind-blowingly good” (Stephen King) author of Coffin Moon and Fever House

“Let there be no doubt: Keith Rosson is the reigning champ of horror noir, fists down.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and Devil Inside

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Previously at Transom Book Club

  • Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson

  • There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

  • What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

  • Crux by Gabriel Tallent

  • Tilt by Emma Pattee

  • Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser

  • Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor