Augie, Audrey, Keller, and Zeke read Pride and Prejudice with an open mind.

Wait, did Donna Tartt just fail the Bechdel test? Mabel, Porter, Mateo, and Didi discuss how her '90s classic holds up. Full spoilers!

Brave New World, same old canon. Caroline, Connor, Claire, and Olivia discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian classic, touching on politics, economics, psychology, philosophy, and (briefly) geography.

Liz, Evy, and Alex read TWO books! Both fairly depressing! Like a sad hat on a sad hat.

They also settle the age-old question of who would win in a fight between Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.

Content warning: discussion of plotlines involving attempted and completed suicide in The Bell Jar.

Sammy, Ava, Fiona, Mae, and Noelle discuss how Stephen King's first novel handles adolescence, mean girls, and high school drama.

Ash, Drew, Rafi, and Quinn ride the wave of (so many) narrative voices in George Saunders's Booker Prize-winning novel.

CONTENT WARNINGS: brief discussion of suicide, mentions of pedophilia, talking about death and racism characteristic of the time period.

Aaron, Millie, Levi, Ella, and Sam discuss all the things that make Cormac McCarthy's capacious anti-western a tough read... and why that's not necessarily a bad thing.

CONTENT WARNING: Blood Meridian is chock-full of upsetting imagery and language, including detailed portrayals of sadistic violence, racially offensive language, and intentionally provocative depictions of racial bigotry. In order to discuss the novel critically, this group refers to or reads aloud several such passages.

Xander, Raja, Hudson, Leo, and James do their best to untangle Joseph Conrad's point of view from his narrator's, looking at his novel that famously critiques colonialism while repeating some of the same dehumanizing stereotypes that were used to justify it.