Atomic Reading Club 2023 - Outer Limits

Our theme this year is Outer Limits (as in "the outer limits of human belief"). It's like an X-files year! Or an In Search Of year. It's not about the supernatural but more like the paranormal, or the cultural history of investigations into the nature of such things. UFOs but not sci-fi. Not ghost stories but ghost hunting. Cryptids, not mythological creatures. What is real? What is nature? What is in the wild out there? In the universe? Why do we think there's something more out there? Things that exist at the very outer limits of human belief.

OUR 2023 OUTER LIMITS READING LIST
January - Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest by Ken Layne
February - I Hate This Place Volume 1 by Kyle Starks / Artyom Topilin / Lee Loughridge
March - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk
April - Communion: A True Story by Whitley Stieber
May - Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
June - Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
July - In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond by John Zada
August - Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
September - Sleeping Giants by Sylvian Neuvel
October - Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
November - Only Good Indians: A Novel by Stephen Graham Jones
December - Department of Truth Volume 1: The End Of The World by James TynionIV / Martin Simmonds

See all this year's reading club selections on the Atomic Books site.

Note: When buying your book at Atomic Books, let our bookseller know you're getting it for book club and you'll get 15% off.

When buying the bookclub books online, just enter the coupon code OUTERLIMITS2023 to get your discount.

Discussions are always the last Tuesday of the month, 7pm. in Eightbar.

For more info, updates, etc., join the Atomic Reading Club FB group.

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