A Monthly Read From Everything Happens
The Everything
Happens Book Club
Books that take real life seriously. Written in sentences worth slowing down for, told from a vantage you’ve never read from before.
Free · A new book every month · No pressure, no grade
There is something so special about reading with other people — letting a story surprise us and hand us language for things we didn’t know how to say. That’s what this book club is about.
Each month, we read a book together. We’re a community who love a lot, who’ve been through a lot, and who understand how rarely life allows us to stay entirely on course. These books are for us.
Consider this a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. Participate in the comments and discussion on Substack. Or treat this like a book recommendation from someone who likes you very, very much and add it to your must-read list. Or just lurk.
No pressure, no grade.
My hope is that these books become somewhere to find shared language, feel a little less alone, and remember that other people are out here carrying the same kinds of things you are.
This month we’re reading
So Far Gone
by Jess Walter
Pick up this month’s book, then meet us on Substack for the discussion questions, supplemental reading, and a conversation with the author.
Everything happens over on Substack
Here’s what you’ll find waiting for you.
A new book every month
Picked because it’s worth your time — strange, moving, beautifully written fiction that gives you language for things you didn’t know how to say.
Discussion questions
The kind that crack open a theme, a character, or a message more fully, so the reading keeps unfolding after the last page.
A supplemental reading list
Essays, poems, and podcast conversations for when you finish the book and can’t quite let go.
Conversations with the author
Recorded and shared, so you can watch live or whenever works for you.
A community of readers who get it
Our Substack chat is full of reactions, recommendations, and strong feelings about endings. (We have a lot of feelings about endings.)
Come read with us.
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