103 books the club has exhibited

Week 1

Chapters 1 to 7

Opening the exhibition

• · What promise does the first chapter make to the reader, and is it kept?
• · Whose voice controls the narrative, and what does that choice cost us?
• · Which single image from these chapters refuses to leave you?

Week 2

Chapters 8 to 15

Pressure and complication

• · Where does the author withhold information, and to what effect?
• · How does place function as a character in this section?
• · What would change if this section were narrated by the antagonist?

Week 3

Chapters 16 to 23

The turn

• · Which decision here is impossible to defend and impossible to condemn?
• · How does the prose style shift as the stakes rise?
• · What is the book arguing about power in these pages?

Week 4

Chapters 24 to the End

Closing dialogue

• · Does the ending resolve the book's central question or reframe it?
• · What will you carry from this book into next month's read?
• · If you could ask the author one question, what would it be?