Hong Kong Book Club

Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending follows an aging Englishman whose comfortable, unexamined life is shattered when an unexpected bequest forces him to confront the dark consequences of a half-forgotten youth and the convenient lies he told himself to survive it.

Set in the early 20th century, it tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach setting a trap for Sherlock Holmes. Wait, no.

Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor wrote Man's Search for Meaning in 1946.

The central protagonist is Rick Deckard. Deckard is a bounty hunter who retires rogue androids, known as replicants. Note - this would make a great movie.

A secret organization known as "Sakigake" draws Aomame into it. Aomame is a skilled assassin. Tengo rewrites a mysterious novel conspiratorially…

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway captures a single June day in post-WWI London, weaving the inner monologues of a high-society hostess preparing for a party with those of a shell-shocked war veteran into a brilliant, chiming tapestry of time, memory, and mortal longing.

Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth follows the wild, unrepentant escapades of Gulley Jimson—a rogue, visionary painter in mid-century London who sacrifices comfort, law, and sanity in his relentless quest to paint his sprawling artistic visions.

Kafka Tamura, a bookish 15-year-old boy runs away from his Oedipal curse.

Bolaño's magnum opus, 2666 contains five major sections…

Marcel eats a cookie and recalls memories, but magical.

Binx Bolling finds solace in going to the movies…

The eccentric and controversial practices of health enthusiasts.

The story follows David Martín, a young writer.

The disintegration of the American Dream through the lens of one family.

The the breakdown of society in the face of an epidemic of blindness.

Set during the Sepoy Mutiny, the story of the Brits falling apart.