Book club
A book club in Zurich that meets twice a month, open to members and guests. It has two parts: a fiction club and a philosophical club. We read one book (or a long essay) and meet to discuss it; Russian and English are both used. You do not need to have finished the book to come along.
Dates and titles are listed below. Check the calendar for the time and place of the next meeting.
Fiction club
The next title is chosen by a vote in our Telegram voting bot.
18.12.2026 - Honoré de Balzac “The Wild Ass’s Skin”
27.11.2026 - Vladimir Sorokin “Day of the Oprichnik” and “The Sugar Kremlin”
30.10.2026 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Faust”
25.09.2026 - Philip K. Dick “Ubiq”
28.08.2026 - Andy Weir “Project Hail Mary”
31.07.2026 - Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Idiot”
26.06.2026 - Stanisław Lem “Summa Technologiae (The Sum of Technology)”
29.05.2026 - Andrey Platonov “Chevengur”
17.04.2026 - Hermann Hesse “Der Steppenwolf”
27.03.2026 - Kurt Vonnegut “Mother Night”
27.02.2026 - Fyodor Dostoevsky “Poor Folk”
Philosophical club
13.11.2026 - Luc Ferry “A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living”
16.10.2026 - Irvin Yalom “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”
18.09.2026 - Lars Svendsen “A Philosophy of Boredom”
21.08.2026 - Erich Fromm “The Sane Society”