Oakwood Reading Society
Buddy Reads
Hello Readers,
My book club, originally named Blathers’ Bookworms, came into being back in the summer of 2020 when a friend I’d made through an Animal Crossing community we are a part of started chatting about books. During a conversation about the book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, they mentioned how much they missed book clubs and so we decided to start our own within the Animal Crossing community we were a part of.
We officially launched the club in September 2020 with our first meet up being held on my ACNH island at the end of that month and to our surprise, there was about 5 of us and we spent a good couple of hours chatting about books and numerous other things. Then in October, we chose our first Buddy Read Book ~ The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
The book club is now in its fourth year and has undergone a change of location and name ~ it now finds it’s home on my own Discord Server and is now called Oakwood Reading Society. We’ve chatted about and read many books during our meet ups and I thought it would be nice to share all our buddy reads here in this space, in case anyone is interested in knowing the types of books we’ve been reading and maybe you’ll find your next five star read from this list!
2020 / 2021 Buddy Read Books
October ~ The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
November ~ A Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
December ~ Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
January ~ No book.
February ~ A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
March / April ~ Blathers’ Bookworms Readathon
May ~ Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
June ~ Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
July ~ No book.
August ~ Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
September ~ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
October ~ Dune by Frank Herbert {Sections 1 & 2}
November ~ Dune by Frank Herbert {Section 3}
December ~ Animal Crossing New Horizons Deserted Island Diary Vol 1 by Kokonasu Rumba
2022 Buddy Read Books
January ~ The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
February ~ Under The Whispering Door by T. J. Kline
March ~ This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
April ~ The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
May ~ The Library Book by Susan Orlean
June ~ Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
July ~ Sourdough by Robin Sloan
August ~ The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
September ~ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
October ~ Blathers’ Bookworms Readathon
November ~ The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
December ~ ACNH Deserted Island Diary Vol 2 by Kokonasu Rumba
2023 Buddy Read Books
January ~ Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
February ~ The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
March ~ The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly
April ~ Choose Your Own Adventure ~ Read a Book on Your TBR
May ~ A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
June ~ Yellowface by R. F Kuang
July ~ ACNH Deserted Island Diary Vol 3 by Kokonasu Rumba
August ~ Choose Your Own Adventure ~ Read a Book on your TBR
September ~ Cain’s Jawbone by Ernest Powys Mathers
October ~ Choose Your Own Adventure ~ Read a Book on your TBR / Cain’s Jawbone by Ernest Powsy Mathers
November ~ A Prayer For The Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
December ~ ACNH Deserted Island Diary Vol 4 by Kokonasu Rumba
2024 Buddy Read Books
January ~ The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
February ~ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
March ~ Choose Your Own Adventure ~ Read a Book on your TBR {Manga March}
April ~ Poor Things ~ Alasdair Grey
May ~ The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
June ~ Choose Your Own Adventure ~ Read a Book on your TBR
July ~ ACNH Manga Vol 5 and 6 by Kokonasu Rumba
August ~ More Days At The Morisaki Bookshop ~ Satoshi Yagisawa
September ~ Moonbound ~ Robin Sloan
October ~ Oakwood Reading Society Stardew Valley Themed Reading Month
November ~ A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
December ~ Choose Your Own Adventure ~ Read a Book on your TBR