Our reading list for summer term 2025 has been completed and promises psychopathic and dystopian stories, experimental reading experiences, feminist science fiction as well as some classic fantasy. May 8, 2025: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll […]
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We discussed Alison McGhee’s What I Leave Behind and Lize Meddings’s The Sad Ghost Club I on March 14, 2024. McGhee’s 2019 YA novel tells the story of sixteen-year-old Will, who tries to cope with the misery of his father’s suicide by doing some good in the world and to […]
Our reading list for winter term 2023/2024 has been completed and leads us into horror, suspense, and thrill—while still ending on a wholesome note. We start with a post-Halloween special on November 9, 2023 with some classic horror retold: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe&What […]
We discussed Aiden Thomas’s Cemetery Boys on June 15, 2023 as part of our Pride Month Special. Thomas’s 2020 YA novel follows latinx trans boy Yadriel on his journey to acceptance—by himself, his brujx community, and Lady Death—and love—with Julian who kick-starts the plot as an accidentally summoned spirit and […]
Pride month sets the theme for this summer term’s June discussion session on June 15, 2023: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas&Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Thomas’s 2020 YA novel follows a latinx trans boy engaging with the Mexican death culture and features actual magic. Kobabe’s 2019 graphic novel […]
Our book choices for summer term 2023 have been made and we are looking forward to surgeons and chemists, to time travel and queer identity. We kick things off on May 11, 2023 with romance, corpses, and mystery: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz “Hazel Sinnett is a lady […]
Our reading schedule for winter term 2022/2023 has been decided and it is a mix of murder and mystery, family and fantasy, and—above all—love. We kick things off on November 10, 2022 with a world-wide book phenomenon: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The 2018 coming-of-age and murder-mystery novel […]