This reminds me of Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi. It is a book about a secret women's book club: no one in post-revolution Iran is supposed to read the English literature the protagonist, Azar, herself, wants to teach about. Therefore, she starts a secret book club, which stays hidden even for family and relatives of the members, most of them Azar's students. It's inspiring to read how the members of the book club evolve, all individuals interpreting the literature differently and how this leads them to finding their own (silent) way of expressing resistance to the regime.