The Intrepid Book Society is a fictional book club, a space to discuss books selected according to keywords.
- Key place: CHINA | “The Art of War”, by Sun Tzu
- Keyword: MARRIAGE | “Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life”, by Anna Funder
- Keyword: ANTARCTICA | Books about heroic adventures
Quizzes
Testing your knowledge about a book (or make you want to read it). Each book is chosen according to a keyword.
- A book about India: “Midnight’s Children”, by Salman Rushdie
- A book about consequences: “The Secret History”, by Donna Tartt
- A book about translation: “Babel”, by R. F. Kuang
- Best of “The Intrepid Book Society” [March 2024 – June 2025]
Recreating a real book club
The members of a fictional book club discuss these books, chosen according to a keyword.
- Keyword: MAIL | “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Keyword: RELIGION | “Three Daughters of Eve”, by Elif Shafak
- Keyword: FAMILY | “Hamnet”, by Maggie O’Farrell
- Keyword: TIME | “L’anomalie” [“The Anomaly “], by Hervé Le Tellier
- Keyword: ENTERTAINMENT | “Tierra” [Earth], by Eloy Moreno
- Keyword: BEAUTY | “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, by Oscar Wilde
- Keyword: HAPPINESS | “Le Petit Prince” [“The Little Prince”], by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Keyword: WAR | “Das Boot”, by Lothar-Günther Buchheim
- Keyword: WORK | “Levantado do Chão” [” Raised from the Ground”], by José Saramago
Ideas in Books
These books are analysed according to a keyword or a key place.
- Keyword: INVESTIGATION | “The Judge and his Hangman”, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Keyword: WRITER | Ernest Hemingway
- Keyword: EVIL | “The Help”, by Kathryn Stockett
- Keyword: PLACES | “Prisoners of Geography” by Tim Marshall
- Keyword: MONASTERY | “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco
- Keyword: DECEIT | “Fatherland” by Robert Harris
- Key place: USA’s EAST COAST | “The Baltimore Boys” by Joël Dicker
- Key place: LONDON, UK | “The Cuckoo’s Calling”, by Robert Galbraith
- Key place: ITALY | “A Room with a View”, by E. M. Forster
- Key place: PARIS, FRANCE | “Das Parfum”, by Patrick Süskind
- Key place: SIBERIA | “The Lost Pianos of Siberia”, by Sophy Roberts
- Key place: IRELAND | James Joyce
- Keywords: ROMAN EMPIRE | “I, Claudius”, by Robert Graves
- Key place: BATH, UK | Jane Austen
- Keyword: DESERT | “Dune”, by Frank Herbert
WORDS IN IDEAS 