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Queer Book Club

Are you interested in talking about LGBTQIA+ books and issues?  Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the GSRC for a casual book club discussion on important works of LGBTQIA+ literature. Sign-ups will open at the the end of fall and winter quarter for the book club in the following quarter. Queer Book Club is only held in Winter Quarter and Spring Quarter. Contact gsrc@northwestern.edu for details or questions.


Spring Book Club

Join us for the Spring Queer Book Club Book! Sign-up to join us for the discussion and receive a free copy of the book if you need one! Voting on the Winter Book will begin mid-winter quarter and will be posted in the GSRC newsletter.

Vote on the Spring '24 Book: 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Mercy by Ian Haramaki

The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carloetta by James Hannaham

All the Flowers Knelling by Paul Tran

Spring '24 Book: Mercy by Ian Haramaki

Discussion Date: May 8th 5:30pm-7pm

Discussion Location: GSRC, Evanston Campus

Sign-up to attend: Sign-up Here


Winter Book Club

Join us for the Winter Queer Book Club Book! Sign-up to join us for the discussion and receive a free copy of the book if you need one! Voting on the Winter Book will begin mid-fall quarter and will be posted in the GSRC newsletter.

Voting on the Winter Book: TBD

Winter '25 Book : TBD

Discussion Date: TBD

Discussion Location: TBD

Sign-up to attend: TBD


Past Reads!

Winter 24: All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein

Spring 23: This is how you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohatar

Winter 23: She who became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Spring 22: The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Winter 22: The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

Spring 21: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Winter 21: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) By Hazel Jane Plante