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Summer Sale 2025

Join us for a moderated discussion on Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, led by Peter Hyll-Larsen. Entrance is free and open to all!

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Classics Book Club: Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"

Join us for an evening of books, conversation, and community as we dive into a timeless literary classic!

Book of the Month:&nbsp;The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

About the Book: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea&nbsp;tells the tale of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call "objectivity." When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part, and react violently.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can <a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea/41340205662294">purchase your book</a> on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.&nbsp;

Love books and great discussions? Our book club is the perfect place to connect with fellow readers, share thoughts, and explore new perspectives. Whether you’re a lifelong bookworm or just getting back into reading, you’re welcome to join! 

Expect a cozy, welcoming atmosphere, good company, and engaging conversations over drinks. Grab your copy of the book and come along to listen and be part of the discussion!

The book club is free to attend, but we ask that you <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/classics-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1290144339449?aff=oddtdtcreator">register a free ticket</a> so we know how many people to expect.

We have a&nbsp;<a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gb9M3jSY9heK619oNckD3z">WhatsApp group</a>&nbsp;where you can connect with other attendees and stay updated on all our book club events.

Classics Book Club – April Edition

Join us for an evening of books, conversation, and community as we celebrate books about, for and written by queer people.

This month, we'll be reading&nbsp;Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

About the Book:&nbsp;Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/giovannis-room-2/53523137266045" target="_blank">purchase your book</a>&nbsp;on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

What To Expect From Our Book Clubs

Love books and great discussions? Our book club is the perfect place to connect with fellow readers, share thoughts, and explore new perspectives. Whether you’re a lifelong bookworm or just getting back into reading, you’re welcome to join!

The book club is free to attend, but <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/queer-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1372562454249?aff=oddtdtcreator">please register a free ticket</a> so we know how many to expect.

Queer Book Club – June Edition

Join us for an evening of books, conversation, and community as we dive into recent works of contemporary fiction!

Book of the Month:&nbsp;State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

About the Book:&nbsp;Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Her mercurial sister, who lives next door, spends a growing amount of time using MIND’S EYE, a virtual reality device provided to citizens of the town by ELECTRA, a tech company in South Florida, during the doldrums of a recent pandemic. But it’s not just the ominous cats, her mother’s burgeoning cult, or the fact that her belly button has become an increasingly deep cavern―something is off in the town, and it probably has to do with the posters of missing citizens spread throughout the streets.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can <a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/state-of-paradise/41662892277846">purchase your book</a> on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.&nbsp;

Contemporary Book Club – April Edition

This month, we'll be reading The Trial by Franz Kafka

About the Book: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

Get Your Copy: You can <a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/the-trial/53530733216125">purchase your book </a>on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

Classics Book Club – May Edition

Book of the Month: Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

About the Book: A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individual freedom. After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

Get Your Copy: You can <a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/elena-knows/41340227715158" target="_blank">purchase your book </a>on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

The book club is free to attend, but we ask that you <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/contemporary-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1333810877239">register a free ticket </a>so we know how many people to expect.

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Contemporary Book Club – May Edition

This month, we'll be reading Stoner by John Williams

About the Book: William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.

Get Your Copy: You can <a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/stoner/53530728464765" target="_blank">purchase your book </a>on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

The book club is free to attend, but we ask that you <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/classics-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1380573976929">register a free ticket</a> so we know how many people to expect.

Classics Book Club – June Edition

This month, we'll be reading&nbsp;Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

About the Book:&nbsp;When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear. It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in a world that doesn't fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a Muslim household, a South Asian in a Middle Eastern country. But during her Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam, and suddenly everything shifts: if Maryam was never touched by any man, could Maryam be... like Lamya?

Written with deep intelligence and a fierce humour, Hijab Butch Blues follows Lamya as she travels to the United States, as she comes out, and as she navigates the complexities of the immigration system - and the queer dating scene. At each step, she turns to her faith to make sense of her life, weaving stories from the Quran together with her own experiences: Musa leading his people to freedom; Allah, who is neither male nor female; and Nuh, who built an ark, just as Lamya is finally able to become the architect of her own story. Raw and unflinching, Hijab Butch Blues heralds the arrival of a truly original voice, asking powerful questions about gender and sexuality, relationships, identity and faith, and what it means to build a life of one's own.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/hijab-butch-blues/53567922930045" target="_blank">purchase your book</a>&nbsp;on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

The book club is free to attend, but <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/queer-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1424807400289?aff=oddtdtcreator">please register a free ticket</a> so we know how many to expect.

Queer Book Club – July Edition

Book of the Month:&nbsp;Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar’s

About the Book:&nbsp;Kaveh Akbar’s&nbsp;Martyr!&nbsp;is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning - in faith, art, ourselves, others - in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/martyr/41340219129942" target="_blank">purchase your book&nbsp;</a>on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

The book club is free to attend, but we ask that you register a free ticket so we know how many people to expect.

Contemporary Book Club – July Edition

This month, we'll be reading On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

About the Book: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.

Get Your Copy: You can purchase the book on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

The book club is free to attend, but <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/queer-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1536864927369">please register a free ticket</a> so we know how many to expect.

Queer Book Club

Book of the Month:&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/matrix/41340193341526" target="_blank">Matrix by Lauren Groff</a>

About the Book:&nbsp;Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.

At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough?

Equally alive to the sacred and the profane,&nbsp;Matrix&nbsp;gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since&nbsp;Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/matrix/41340193341526" target="_blank">purchase your book</a>&nbsp;on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

Contemporary Book Club

This month, we'll be reading&nbsp;East of Eden by&nbsp;John Steinbeck

About the Book:&nbsp;Follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/search?term=East%20of%20Eden" target="_blank">purchase your book</a>&nbsp;on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

The book club is free to attend, but we ask that you <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/classics-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1537506416079?aff=oddtdtcreator">register a free ticket</a> so we know how many people to expect.

Classics Book Club

Book of the Month:&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/never-let-me-go-twentieth-anniversary-edition/55598755611005" target="_blank">Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</a>

About the Book:&nbsp;As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed-even comforted-by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood-and about their lives now.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/never-let-me-go-twentieth-anniversary-edition/55598755611005" target="_blank">purchase your book&nbsp;</a>on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

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