The Makom Book Club is back with another exciting read!

The Makom Book Club is an opportunity for those ages 21-39 to come together and read books written by Jewish authors or with Jewish themes & subjects. Meetings take place at Wilde Restaurant & Bar over appetizers and feature community-led discussion. Participation is best when at least 1/2 of the book is read before the meeting.

This month, we'll be reading Higher by Roz Alexander

Synopsis:  Tali Blue is definitely going back to finish her last semester of rabbinical school...eventually. When she moved back to her hometown seven years ago to help her grandparents raise her younger sisters, she planned on it being temporary. Now though, she has a stable job and a stable life surrounded by the people she’s known forever. It’s all just fine - and then there’s the incredibly annoying surprise of Maple. When Tali’s love of family, Maple’s art ambitions, and a Rosh Hashanah effort to #savethebees force these two together, both of them may learn that the only way out is up, together.
 

Upcoming Makom Book Club reads:
 

October 6, 2025
Night Owls, AR Vishny

In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York's monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are, all of them, lost forever.
 

December 1, 2025
Eight Very Bad Nights edited by Tod Goldberg

This collection of eleven delightful and twisted Hanukkah capers will entertain you through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.

January 5, 2026
The Right Thing to do at the Time by Dov Zeller

A romantic comedy full of angsty wrestling matches between idealism and cynicism, work and art, and
friendship and romance. It will keep you guessing until the very end.

March 9, 2026
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

A “razor-sharp, perfectly plotted” (The Sunday Times, London) tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
 

May 4, 2026
Don't Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good.