
The F*@#’d Up Book Club is dedicated to reading all things f*@#’d up. Whether it’s plot lines that mess with your head, characters that make you shudder, or just those little nasty details thrown in to make your stomach flip, we’ll be there! Not just thrillers and horror novels (though there will be plenty of those!) we will strive to redefine just how f*@#’d up a book can get. Recommended for readers with a strong stomach and a dark sense of humor, who are unafraid of the things that go bump.
Meetings take place on the fourth Monday of each month at Old Firehouse Books at 6:00pm.
2026 SELECTIONS
October 26, 2026:
The Hounding
by Xenobe Purvis
November 23, 2026:
My Mother's House
by Francesca Momplaisir
2027 SELECTIONS
January 25, 2027:
Spread Me & The Wax Child
by Sarah Gailey & Olga Ravn
February 22, 2027:
The Quiet Tenant
by Clemence Michellan
March 22, 2027:
Persona
by Aoife Josie Clements
April 26, 2027:
Dominion
by Addie Citchens
May 24, 2027:
Eartheater
by Dolores Reyes
June 28, 2027:
Root Rot
by Saskia Nislow
July 26, 2027:
Petty Lies
by Sulmi Bak
August 23, 2027:
Cultish
by Amanda Montell
September 27, 2027:
Holy Boy
by Lee Heejoo
October 25, 2027:
Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
November 22, 2027:
TBD
National Bestseller • A New York Times Book Review Book Club Pick • A New York Times Notable Book • Indies Choice Awards Finalist • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, TIME and Kirkus Reviews • The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in...
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One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vulture • This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality • “Impossible to stop reading” —Vulture
When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange...
Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay...
An instant USA Today bestseller • An NPR Books We Love Pick • One of the Best Horror Books of 2025 (Vu...
An astounding, haunting tale of accused witches—a book of sorcery itself—from the celebrated author of The Employees and My Work: now in paperback
In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be...
Read More aboutNATIONAL BEST SELLER • A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: his 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend—and the one victim he has spared • SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAMMETT PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • GMA BUZZ PICK
“A...
A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil.
"The year's great work of literary horror." --Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt
CIBA Booksellers' List Winter Pick - A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Feminist...
Read More aboutShort-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A Best Book of the Year: Elle, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, Debutiful
A Must-Read: New York, People, NPR, Literary Hub, Jezebel, The Millions, So...
NAMED A "FALL 2020 MUST-READ" AND ONE OF THE "BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, TOR AND MORE
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of...
Read More aboutCome meet The Liar, The Secret Keeper, The Crybaby, and the rest.
Nine children travel with their families to their Grandfather's vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people's faces don't hang right anymore-except they do...
Read More aboutWe Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Vegetarian in this chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance.
Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her lonesome son, Yuchan. But Mira is not who she presents...
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
NOW IN PAPERBACK—AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers
“At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the...
Read More aboutFour obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tension of Stephen King's Misery.
Four wildly different women are consumed by Yosep, a dreamy twenty-one...
Read More aboutSelected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year
A Barack Obama Summer Read
Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel
Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel
Locus Award Winner for Horror
Libby Award Winner for Best Horror
Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction
Los...
