Our Most Recent Reads

  • Blue Dragoon

    Our Ratings (0-10):

    David 7.0
    Elle 9.0
    Kathy 7.5
    Dennis 7.2
    Todd 6.0
    Sahara 6.1527
    Jean 9.0
    Kate 9.0

    Club Avg: 7.60

    BLUE TRAIN RECAP

  • Star Turn

    Our Ratings (0-10):

    David DNR
    Kathy 7.0
    Sahara 7.2184
    Elle 6.5
    Dennis 6.1
    Todd 7.0
    Kate 7.0
    Jean TBA

    Recap Coming Soon

  • Hugo-mongous

    Our Ratings (0-10):

    Dennis 8.6
    Kathy 8.0
    David 8.0
    Sahara 8.379
    Elle 8.2
    Kate 8.0
    Todd 8.0
    Jean 7.0

    Club Avg: 8.02

    Recap Coming Soon

Complete Backlist:

Exhalation by Ted Chiang
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
Who Goes There? by John C. Campbell
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
Stay True by Hua Hsu
This Other Eden by Paul Harding


Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
A House Between Earth And The Moon by Rebecca Scherm
American Psychosis by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.
The Speed Of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Demon Of Unrest by Erik Larson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
The Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin


Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
James by Percival Everett
Counterattacks At Thirty by Won-Pyung Sohn
How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Mystery Of The Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Elle’s Equations

Watch this space for Elle’s ongoing analysis of rating trends and tendencies.

Books read since inception: 38

Estimated total pages read by the H.B.B.C: 12,335
Estimated 2026 pages: 226

Estimated percentage of total pages by genre:
Literary Fiction: 29.4%
Speculative Fiction: 25.4%
Historical Fiction: 14.1%
Non-Fiction: 13.8%
Mystery/Crime/Thriller: 10.6%
Classic Literature: 6.7%

Page counts vary by edition. Genre classifications and definitive page counts open to debate.