The dataset provided is a qualitative record of the discussions conducted by participants in an online, asychronous book club. Participants read and discussed two novels – If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So and The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho – and recorded their thoughts in Padlet, an online note-taking tool. One discussion also took place over Zoom. The dataset consists of four excel spreadsheets:
1.	Pseudonymised participant demographic information
2.	The text from the participants’ introductory posts on Padlet
3.	The text of the novel discussion of If You Still Recognise Me, broken up by 4 chapter sections
4.	The text of the novel discussion of The Silence that Binds Us, broken up by 4 chapter sections and smaller sub-sections as appropriate.