/lit/ - Literature

>>17207153
>The people that I found that are happiest in life are those who came from a bad background, managed to get out of it while getting supportive people around you
>falling for the virtuous poor meme

Has anyone had any luck with book clubs? I've been going to one for a few years and they insist on mostly reading genre shit while talking about how they're attending to "try new books that they usually wouldn't read". I mostly stay for the social aspect at this point.

Has anyone had better success with their local ones or ever managed to steer things in a less airport-lit direction? I did put forward a more experimental book that I enjoyed once and some people really didn't like that it didn't have a conventional "goodie stops the baddie" narrative.