Verso Book Club Reading Group

The Verso Book Club is a monthly curated subscription service where our members receive best-selling titles in the mail, every new ebook we release, and get 50% off all website purchases.

As the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, we believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future. This new addition to the Verso Book Club moves beyond the initial reading of a book, asking readers to dig into the critical, though often messy, next stage of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.

Each month, we will meet over Zoom to hear from the author(s) themselves, or from a scholar, writer, or thinker who has had a key influence on the topic at hand. Guest speakers are not asked to lecture per se, but to be in conversation with their own reading of the text, highlighting key moments, explicating subtleties, and suggesting questions for further dialogue in advance of small group discussion. We also encourage members to self-organize either in person or virtual satellite meetups.

The Reading Group is open to all members of the Verso Book Club. Join the Club to take part! 

Unless otherwise noted, meetings will take place at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT.

 

February 2026  

Join us in February to discuss the newly launched Essential Psychoanalysis series. Event details TBC. 

January 25th, 2026  

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide gathers first-hand accounts that reflect on the devastating impact of ongoing conflict on people’s lives, their land and their future. Verso Book Club members were joined by two of the book's contributors for a discussion on Palestinian poetry, education, and resistance to the ongoing genocide. 

December 14th, 2025 

To commemorate the arrival of John Berger’s centenary in 2026, the Verso Book Club hosted a conversation between Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend, on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, photography, translation, drama, fiction, and criticism.  

November 30th, 2025

Our November discussion on climate change and climate fiction was led by  Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, bestselling authors of  The Long Heat, Overshoot, and How To Blow Up A Pipeline. We were joined in discussion by Kim Stanley Robinson, renowned author of 22 novels including Red Mars, The Ministry For the Future, and The Years of Rice and Salt. 
 
In advance of our call, we read the Preface, Chapter 9, and Chapter 16 of The Long Heat. 

October 19th, 2025 

In October's session we read September's Book Club pick, Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh.
Leading our discussion were Joanna Walsh and Cory Doctorow.
Reading Assignment: Amateurs Introduction + Chapters 2023 and 2015; Enshittification Introduction (download PDF here).

September 14th 2025 at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT

Our September meeting was a discussion of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left with author Benjamin Balthaser in conversation with poet and essayist Dania Rajendra.

In advance of the call, we read the book's introduction and chapters 1–3.