Book Club

MSA Book Club is a fun, informal program run by student volunteers in Surly. Read, chat, and hang out with other book lovers... what could be better???

Get your tickets to the Book Club Launch Party! - Thursday 27th Feb, 2.30pm to 4pm

Check join us in the library out the 2025 Book Club Party this Orientation Week! Come eat some snacks, play some games, do some craft & get to know the leaders!

2025 Reading groups

(Click on the links to sign up and the facilitators of your book club will contact you directly via email). 

  • Fantasy: Fridays, 12pm

    • Mermaids, fairies, vampires, ghosts and ghouls. You're no fool, join the fantasy book club and be cool!
    • Books read last year: The Will of the Many by James Islington,  House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, & The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri.
  • General Fiction: Thursdays, 11am

    • All kinds of cool fiction!! We do fantasy, sci-fi, cute fluffy queer romances, historical fiction - all sorts of interesting stories to chat about together.
    • Books read last year: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, This is how You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladston, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adam & Babel by R. F. Kuang.
  • [NEW] Historical Fiction: Tuesdays, 2pm

    • For all history lovers! Join us as we escape to the past each week and experience the trials and tribulations of multigenerational historical fiction!
  • Retellings: Myths & Legends: Tuesday, 12pm

    • Recent years have seen a new wave of fiction that takes world-famous stories and turns them on their head. This reading group is for lovers of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint, Homer and Perrault. Join us in unravelling the twisted tales of Myths & Legends retold!
    • Books read last year: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim, Mythos by Stephen Fry, Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman, & Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Click on the links to sign up and the facilitators of your book club will contact you directly via email.

Previous Book Clubs!

Science Fiction, Queer Literature, Poetry, Feminist Literature, Philosophy, Romance.

Do wanna start any of these up again? Have another idea? Sign up here!

 


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