And Other Stories reading groups have been instrumental in unearthing a number of great books to publish in English. Each recent group has thrown up one or two books we are seriously considering as titles we could publish. Call it a book club or reading group – it’s about the same thing: talking about books that a bunch of people have read.
Contribute to one our current / upcoming reading groups:
Current group: Spanish
We are keen to run more groups later in 2011. Ideas are already floating around for Arabic, Swedish (or pan-Scandinavian?), Polish and Spanish groups. So if you would like to be a reader later in a group – or would like to suggest an as yet untranslated contemporary work of fiction – email us at reading@andotherstories.org
Extracts in English are available on this website’s reading group pages where possible – see the relevant author’s page. Books in the original language may be available to borrow from And Other Stories by emailing reading@andotherstories.org.
Read the excerpts or one of the books and tell us your opinion! You can comment online on the author pages, or come to a meet-up to discuss what has been read.
2011 Reading Groups
- Portuguese 30 September – 9 November
- Russian 4 March – 4 April
- German 14 March – 27 April
- French 16 May – 27 June
- Portuguese 2 May – 14 June
Summer 2010 Reading Groups
For the summer months of 2010, there were online discussion groups (on the literary social network site Goodreads) for Spanish-language and Lithuanian fiction.
Winter 2010 Reading Groups
Portuguese-language Reading Group with books by João Paulo Cuenca, Rodrigo Lacerda, Raduan Nassar and Dulce Maria Cardos.
Latin American Spanish-language Reading Group with books by Guadelupe Nettel, Norma Lazo, Andres Neuman, Carlos Gamerro, Victoria de Stefano and Ricardo Waale.
German-language Reading Group with books by Anne Weber, Gabriele Petricek, Susann Pásztor and Katharina Hacker.
And Other Stories Catalogue
Comments from the Reading Groups