Looking to connect with some fellow Calgarians and talk about books while you do it? Join us at the Working Words Book Club! Books and wine—a perfect pairing.
We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month after work for a discussion and a glass of wine.
Please join us if you’re interested, even if you don’t finish the book. (Yet be prepared for some spoilers!) Space is limited, so please reserve your spot using the Google Form in the registration link below.
Questions or suggestions? Email Marlies.
The details
- Time: Meet at 5:30 pm on the second Tuesday of the month
- Location: Hosted by Unfiltered Wine Bar (1020 14 St SW)
- Books: If you decide to buy your book from Shelf Life Books, you can get a 10% discount by telling them you’re part of the book club
- Cost: No fee to join or reserve your spot
- Discussion: Marlies will start things off, but come with your ideas, questions, and stories
The dates and books
~September 8, 2026~
*NOTE: We are changing it up! We’re meeting the second Tuesday of the month starting in September.
Book: How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron
Reserve your spot: Registration link
Seamlessly weaving together nature writing with true crime investigation in this unflinching account of recovery, How to Survive a Bear Attack is at once an intimate portrait of an extraordinary animal, a bracing chronicle of pain, obsession, and love, and a profoundly moving exploration of how we can understand and survive the wildness that lives inside us.
~October 13, 2026~
Book: Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Reserve your spot: Registration link
Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. As the day’s work grinds on, the friction between Ning’s two identities—as anonymous manicurist and brilliant observer of her own circumstances—will gather electric and crackling force, and at last demand a reckoning with the way the world of privilege looks at a woman like Ning. Told over a single day, with razor-sharp precision and wit, Pick a Colour confirms Souvankham Thammavongsa’s place as literature’s premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms.
~November 10, 2026~
Book: Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
Reserve your spot: Registration link (will open October 14)
Back by popular demand … and because we seem to bring this book up at every meeting … we’re going back to where we started: We’re reading Cork Dork!
With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: What’s the big deal about wine? What she learns will change the way you drink wine—and, perhaps, the way you live—forever.
~December 8, 2026~
Book: I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue (a Calgary author!)
Reserve your spot: Registration link (will open November 11)
When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their coworkers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss’s favour, convince HR she’s Supershops material and beat out the competition. Crackling with laugh-out-loud dialogue and relatable observations, I Hope This Finds You Well is a fresh and surprisingly tender comedy about loneliness and love beyond our computer screens. This sparkling debut novel will open your heart to the everyday eccentricities of work culture and the undeniable human connection that comes with it.