The Book Club — History & Stats

books read together

3.50

club average rating

13,385

pages, give or take

updated Jun 6, 2026

The standings

← don't take it personally

Most books finished

the completionists

1 Michael

38 books
2 Taylor

37 books
3 Emily

37 books
4 McKenzie

34 books
5 Kelley

33 books

Most generous

easy graders

1 Michael

★ 3.85
2 Emily

★ 3.44
3 McKenzie

★ 3.38
4 Kelley

★ 3.27

Harshest critic

tough room

1 Kelley

★ 3.27
2 McKenzie

★ 3.38
3 Emily

★ 3.44
4 Michael

★ 3.85

Out of step

their own beat

1 Kelley

±0.71
2 Emily

±0.69
3 Michael

±0.68
4 McKenzie

±0.51

Best completion rate

a clean record

1 McKenzie

34 of 34
2 Michael

38 of 38
3 Taylor

37 of 38
4 Emily

37 of 38
5 Kelley

33 of 38

By the year

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

How we rate them

the shape of our taste

1.0★

1.5★

2.0★

2.5★

3.0★

3.5★

4.0★

4.5★

5.0★

What we read

genre by genre

Fiction

Thriller

Fantasy

Mystery

Book Club

Horror

Contemporary

Science Fiction

By page count

quick wins vs. slogs

≤200

201–400

401–600

601–800

800+

Every book we've read

the whole shelf

sort:

year:

showing 38 of 38 books

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

★★★3

4 of 5 finished · 2026

didn't finish: McKenzie

see what 2 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Kelley★★
“2.5”

The Merge

Grace Walker

★★★3

3 of 5 finished · 2026

didn't finish: Taylor, McKenzie

see what 2 people thought›

Michael★★★
Kelley★★★

Bird Box

Josh Malerman

★★★★4

5 of 5 finished · 2026

see what 2 people thought›

Michael★★★★
“terrifying and atmospheric<br /><br />-biblioteca”
Emily★★★★

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

★★★★4

5 of 5 finished · 2026

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★★
“4.25”
Kelley★★★★
“Wild ride.”
Emily★★★★

Theo of Golden

Allen Levi

★★★★★5

5 of 5 finished · 2026

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
“4.75.”
Kelley★★★★★
McKenzie★★★★★

We Love You, Bunny

Mona Awad

no ratings yet

4 of 5 finished · 2025

didn't finish: Kelley

Bunny

Mona Awad

★★½2.5

5 of 5 finished · 2025

see what 2 people thought›

Kelley★
“1.75”
Emily★★★★
“3.75, rounded up”

Notes on an Execution

Danya Kukafka

★★★★★5

5 of 5 finished · 2025

see what 1 person thought›

Emily★★★★★
“4.5, rounded up”

The Night Shift

Alex Finlay

★★★3

5 of 5 finished · 2025

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★
“3.5”
Kelley★★★
“3.5”
McKenzie★★★
“3.5”
Emily★★★

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

★★★½3.25

5 of 5 finished · 2024

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★
Kelley★★★
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★★★

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

★★★3

5 of 5 finished · 2024

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★
“3.25”
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★★
“3.5”

The Clinic

Cate Quinn

★★½2.33

4 of 5 finished · 2024

didn't finish: Emily

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★
Kelley★★
“2. Hated every single character. Good idea, poor execution.”
McKenzie★★

Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

Matt Ruff

★★★★3.75

5 of 5 finished · 2024

see what 5 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Taylor★★★
Kelley★★★★
McKenzie
“DNF”
Emily★★★★

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

★★★½3.25

5 of 5 finished · 2024

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★
“4.25”
Kelley★★★
“3.5”
McKenzie★★★
“3.5”
Emily★★★
“3.5, read during a book slump so that probably caused the lower rating”

All the Sinners Bleed

S. A. Cosby

★★★★½4.5

5 of 5 finished · 2024

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
Kelley★★★★★
McKenzie★★★★
Emily★★★★
“4.25”

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

★★★★4

4 of 5 finished · 2024

didn't finish: Kelley

see what 2 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
“4.75, loved it.”
Emily★★★

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

★★½2.5

5 of 5 finished · 2024

see what 2 people thought›

Kelley★★★
McKenzie★★
“2.75”

11/22/63

Stephen King

★★★★½4.67

5 of 5 finished · 2024

see what 3 people thought›

Kelley★★★★
“4.5”
McKenzie★★★★★
Emily★★★★★

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

★1

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★
Kelley★
“1”
McKenzie★
Emily★

The Measure

Nikki Erlick

★★★★★4.75

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
“4.75”
Kelley★★★★
“4.5”
McKenzie★★★★★
“The first book to ever make me cry. I loved every page of it.”
Emily★★★★★
“4.5”

Rouge

Mona Awad

★★★½3.5

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Kelley★★★
“3.5”
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★★★

Our Share of Night

Mariana Enríquez

★★★★4

4 of 5 finished · 2023

didn't finish: Kelley

see what 2 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Emily★★★★

The Beautiful Bureaucrat

Helen Phillips

★★★½3.33

4 of 5 finished · 2023

didn't finish: Kelley

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★
“3.5”
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★★★

Under the Skin

Michel Faber

★★½2.67

4 of 5 finished · 2023

didn't finish: Kelley

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★
McKenzie★★
Emily★★★

Weyward

Emilia Hart

★★★★½4.25

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
“4.5”
Kelley★★★★
“4.25”
McKenzie★★★
“3.75. We all know Graham was the true hero of the book.”
Emily★★★★★

FantasticLand

Mike Bockoven

★★★3

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★
“3.5”
Kelley★★★
“3.25”
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★
“2.5”

The Au Pair

Emma Rous

★★★½3.5

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★
“3.5”
Kelley★★★★
“4.75”
McKenzie★★★★
Emily★★★
“3.5”

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

★★★★4

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
“4.75”
Kelley★★★
“3.75”
McKenzie★★★★
Emily★★★★
“4.25”

The Scent Keeper

Erica Bauermeister

★★★½3.5

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★
Kelley★★★★
“4”
McKenzie★★★★
Emily★★★

The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)

Freida McFadden

★★★½3.25

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Kelley★★★
“3.5”
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★★

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab

★★★★★4.75

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
“4.5”
Kelley★★★★★
“5”
McKenzie★★★★★
Emily★★★★
“Stunning. Loved every minute of this brilliant tale.”

The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

Freida McFadden

★★★½3.5

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Kelley★★★★
“4.5”
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★★

The New One

Evie Green

★★★½3.5

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Kelley★★★
“3.25”
McKenzie★★★★
Emily★★★

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin, Scott Brick

★★★½3.5

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
Kelley★★★
“Overall enjoyed the story, just wasn’t super invested in the characters. 3”
McKenzie★★★
Emily★★★

The Lost Apothecary

Sarah Penner

★★★★3.75

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★★
Kelley★★★★
“4.25”
McKenzie★★★★
Emily★★★

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

★★★3

5 of 5 finished · 2023

see what 4 people thought›

Michael★★★
Kelley★★
“2”
McKenzie★★★★
Emily★★★

We Are All the Same in the Dark

Julia Heaberlin

★★★3

4 of 5 finished · 2023

didn't finish: McKenzie

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★★★
Kelley★★
“2.5”
Emily★★

River Woman, River Demon

Jennifer Givhan

★★★3

4 of 5 finished · 2022

didn't finish: McKenzie

see what 3 people thought›

Michael★★★
Kelley★★★★
“4.25”
Emily★★