Book Club
2025

“Every Fire You Tend” by Sema Kaygusuz
On November 4, 2025, our book club discussed Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz.

“Lovers of Franz K.” by Burhan Sönmez
Kurdish Book Club, September 2, 2025 Burhan Sönmez, Lovers of Franz K.: A Novel. Translated by Sami Hêzil. Other Press, 2025. Available from the publisher here. In 1960s West Berlin,

“Ozzy: A Smile for a While” by Ibrahim Selman
Ibrahim Selman, Ozzy: A Smile for a While. Self-published, 2024 The book club discussed this novel on July 1, 2025. From the publisher: Losing your dog is deeply sorrowful—just as

“All Dogs Die” by Cemile Sahin
The Kurdish Book Club discussed this novel on May 6, 2025. Cemile Sahin is a Kurdish-German author and multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Born in Germany, she works in visual

“The Good, the Bad, and the Gringo” by Kae Bahar
Kae Bahar, The Good, the Bad, and the Gringo. Afsana Press, 2024. Previous title: Letters from a Kurd. Fiction, 432 pages. This novel was discussed at the Book Club on
Our Next Book Club, coming in March
Sener Ozmen, The Competition of Unfinished Stories. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. Sandorf Passage, 2025. 240 pages. At the next meeting of the Kurdish Book Club, we’ll be discussing The Competition