follow the reader is our monthly bookclub, reading together since january 2019. we appreciate lively discussions and enlightening reads!

at this time, follow the reader usually meets every last tuesday of the month, in-person at spiderweb HQ, with a virtual option available by request. check the discord for updates and/or email spiderwebsalon@gmail.com if you’d like to join us!

2025 Reading List!!!

BOOKS WE’VE READ TOGETHER (January 2019-present)

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

Private Rights by Julia Armfield

Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. LeGuin

We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima

Berg by Ann Quin

Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Liberation Day by George Saunders

Habilis by Alyssa Quinn

Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zeleny

The Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring

Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem

The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali

Holy America Burnout by Sean Enfield

Love, Loss & What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi

My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

There There by Tommy Orange

I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

An Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie Lacava

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

A Match to the Heart by Gretl Ehrlich

I Forced a Bot to Write This Book by Keaton Patti

Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

Noise by Darin Bradley

How to be Both by Ali Smith

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman by Rebecca Tamas

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

Borderlands Curanderos: The World of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by Jennifer Koshatka Seman

So Far From God by Ana Castillo

It Chooses You by Miranda July

Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens

Rebellious Mourning edited by Cindy Milstein

A Grave is Given Supper by Mike Soto

The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

Wow No Thank You by Samantha Irby

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

Create Dangerously by Albert Camus

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

The Power by Naomi Alderman

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Supplemental Read: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

How We Became Human by Joy Harjo

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

Walter Benjamin and the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry

Being Dead by Jim Crace

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

Farewell to the Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick

Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop by Marty McConnell

The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Sphinx by Anne Garréta

Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature by Daniel Levin Becker