The World Wide What Book Club travels to the forefront of global storytelling. With a focus on recently released works alongside enduring classics, our selections span continents, offering new bearings and diverse voices from around the world. Hosted by First Light book buyer Sam Ackerman.

November selection: My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, trans. Dick Davis (Iran). Meets Friday, November 21, at 7pm.

The About Motherhood Book Club explores the personal complexities of being a mother, femininity, and domestic life. We’ll use the landmark text Of Woman Born by poet Adrienne Rich as companion text to novels, memoirs and beyond that plumb the joys, grief, indecision, curiosities, and love of motherhood. Hosted by First Light general manager and partner Breezy Mayo.

November selection: Making Babies by Anne Enright. Meets Wednesday, November 19, at 7pm.

The Small & Indie Book Club highlights emerging and avant-garde novels from thoughtful independent presses across the US. Consider this a club of literary discovery: new writers, lesser-publicized works, hyper fresh voices. Hosted by First Light bookseller Annie Tate Cockrum.

November selection: , I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz. Meets Tuesday, November 18, at 7pm.

The Future Greats Book Club explores the evolving and enduring nature of “great novels” in modern times. We’ll read frontlist and recent contemporary fiction with ambitious scope and cultural zeitgeist – books that we think will be read for a long, long time. Hosted by First Light partner Taylor Bruce.

November/December selection: The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson. Meets Monday, December 29, at 7pm.