The Write Conscious 2024 Book Club Schedule Revealed

We are going all the way! In this round of the Write Conscious book club, we are reading 11 certified classics. Many of these are considered some of the more difficult fiction novels of all time. There will be corresponding courses with Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, Blood Meridian, Outer Dark, and The Passenger.
If you can't make it to the book club calls, they will all be recorded and archived. You can talk to me about the books during daily office hours or comment and chat with me in the weekly discussion post for each book!
Join the Write Conscious Book Club, Writing Group, and Cormac McCarthy Course
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Books we will be reading!
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

[@jacksonlandry1017]

Love this dude, thank you for creating this community

[@WriteConscious]

No worries! It has really helped my soul too. I now can't have writers or readers block without letting a ton of people down.

[@michaelv8757]

Gravity’s Rainbow has been one of those books I keep forgetting the name of! It’s definitely on my to read list with Infinite Jest. I can’t wait to read them and follow along even in the future with you doing this.

[@WriteConscious]

Awesome brotha!

[@coolfil9]

Just joined your club. Can’t wait to read Gravity’s Rainbow with you; I’ve been looking at that book sitting on my shelf for a long time now 😂 I’ve read 3 books by Pynchon before, but was kinda afraid to tackle GR. You finally gave me the motivation

[@WriteConscious]

Thanks for the support brotha! Email or message me any questions or struggles you're having if you can't make it to office hours or the book club calls! Also, LETS GO!

[@michaelclark1811]

good stuff

[@mahadhassan3212]

Great t-shirt!

[@WriteConscious]

Thanks!

[@mlrumph]

Thanks!

[@WriteConscious]

Thanks for the support!!

[@masterwallstaring538]

I wont be reading everything on your list but i have ordered Blood meridian and Europe Central so when they arrive ill join the book club related. Should be fun thank you.

[@Misserbi]

I like learning about literature from someone I could access here.

[@AJPzaworld]

Quite based.

[@mahadhassan3212]

I agree, he is becoming more and more of an authority for me in my reading

[@WriteConscious]

Thanks guys! I'm feeling more confident with the daily discipline of publishing writing, reading hard books, and talking about those books.

[@user-vo4uo4re6d]

The cat is obviously not a Pynchon fan. 🤗

[@opencarrydrift6308]

I did infinite jest, moby dick, ulysses and gravitys rainbow all in a row when covid lockdowns happened and it remains one of the coziest times of my life. theyre all really fun books

[@coleperschino5956]

❤️🔥

[@sweetviolents29]

Confederacy of Dunces has been unread on my shelf for years. Time to pull it out! The story if it’s publication is amazing.

[@Chriscorpr]

Hello Ian, do you think the publishers will release McCarthy's unpublished works like the whale play that you mentioned. I read all of McCarthy's novels, and this play got me interested.

[@jurgenmeyer7602]

Is 1Q84 Haruki Murakami's most challenging work? Asking for a friend.

[@jurgenmeyer7602]

@@mikescott4195 Thanks, I only read Kafka on the Shore because Ian talked about it in another video. Breezed right through it, but it's definitely a book that sticks around in your head for a while after finishing it.

[@kentjensen4504]

I love that you listen to the community, but the voting should be considered advisory. No artistic nor philosophical venture should be hampered by somehing as dubious as democratic voting. Please let us be aristocrats who listen attentively to our preferred teacher, who agree and disagree with intelligence and amity.

[@WriteConscious]

Lol, I also picked a lot of the books in the list. I'm not too worried about voting as people in the Substack aren't going to vote for us to read a Court of Thorns and Roses 😂

[@kentjensen4504]

@@WriteConscious If you appoint me your chief of the secret police I will deal with anyone who would suggest reading Court of Thorns and Roses.

[@TheGoodMD]

@@WriteConscious buuuulllshiit. Let’s read Court of Thorns and Roses LOL

[@I_belong_to_God]

I thought it was going to be "Ada, or Ardor" for Nabokov lol

[@TheGoodMD]

Booktuber? Dawg, you’re more of an online professor.

[@WriteConscious]

Thanks brotha!