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Whether you're dreaming of starting your first book club or looking to breathe new life into an existing one, A Club of One's Own is your essential book club guide.
Expanding on our 2019 Inner Lives of Book Clubs, BookBrowse—a trusted voice in the world of reading groups—offers a practical, inclusive, and inspiring guide to building a book club that lasts.
From crafting your club's vision to navigating tricky group dynamics, this guide is packed with insights on everything from choosing discussion-worthy books to leading meaningful conversations.
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Whether your ideal gathering is a tight-knit circle of friends or a public group, A Club of One's Own celebrates the transformative power of reading together—and empowers you to create a book club where everyone feels seen, heard, and inspired.
The new organization and ways to navigate
Hi Katherine, all the discussions can also be found here: https://www.bookbrowse.com/onlinebookclub/ The forum is more complicated because we wanted to expand the discussion from just book clubs to other bookish topics, and we also wanted to encourage members to engage with one another (the previ...
-nick
What are you reading this week? (5/1/2025)
I'm reading an upcoming release, https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/21801/the-names The Names by Florence Knapp, and then I'll be moving on to https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/21103/the-girls-of-good-fortune The Gir...
-kim.kovacs
BookBrowsers Ask Author Chris Bohjalian
Thanks, Kim! Ah, THE LIONESS. The novel was born in a movie theater. I emerged from a matinee in August 2019, squinting against the high summer sun, and thought to myself, "My God, I love movies. Why have I never written a Hollywood novel?" When my books work, and heaven knows they do not always ...
-Chris_B
The Top 20 Best Books of the Year as Voted by BookBrowsers
The Frozen River is in the list of books my book club will be reading. I am sure they will love it too. Thank you for your nursing career…a tough one, but necessary.
-Elizabeth
What are you reading this week? (3/6/2025)
Just finished reading The Holy Road by Michael Blake for my book club and listening to Gilgamesh, one of James Mustich's 1000 Books to Read Before You Die. Currently trying to get The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison read for BookBrowse's First Impressions Book Discussion. I'm in the midst of a deep r...
-Lana_Maskus
What are you reading this week? (12-05-2024)
I'm reading Babylonia for the BookBrowse book club, but I'm feeling a bit behind the curve this week. I'm doing better with my audio books - I just started Book 7 of the Slough House series, with one more to go after this one. I'm definitely enjoying it to the point that I'm compelled to finish t...
-kim.kovacs
Do you belong to more than one book club and how do you choose your books?
I belong to two bookclubs, BookBrowse online club and the Banned Bookclub at my library. Our leader at the library bookclub chooses our books each month. In November we read a long poem. December she will read a short children's book to us and then we will discuss.
-Paula_Walters
Being able to filter by multiple genres on BookBrowse
Hi Joe, Yes our system currently only allows for one genre to be tagged. "Literary Fiction" is BookBrowse's catchall for contemporary fiction, and we'll likely change that name at some point, so you should likely use mystery for the genre and then you can filter by time period to find mysteries s...
-nick
What are you reading this week? (11/14/2024)
I finished up In Our Midst by Nancy Jensen for the BookBrowse book club. It's about a German family in the United States as WWII breaks out. Great historical fiction! I started The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman after that. It's also historical fiction - divided into a sectio...
-kim.kovacs
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