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Book Club Networking &

Author Events

If you've been looking for a way to connect with local book clubs, this is it! With an international database of in-person groups, users can easily find a club or start one of their own. We also offer a full arts calendar with free event listings.

Reader's Circle serves the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (map).

Open Format
You'll note in our database that a number of listings are for 'reader's circles.' These are a new kind of book group where people attend with whatever they're reading. The only structure is if participants decide to have an 'optional book.' Otherwise, everyone just brings their own books, articles, magazines, and conversation goes from there. The idea is to loosen the usual format so participants can select their own reading and attend even if they're still in the middle of a book. Conversation inevitably covers the books brought and many other subjects as well.

Our Vision

Reader's Circle aspires to renew the spirit of dialogue that animated the coffeehouses of early modern England and the salons of Enlightenment France. Franklin's Junto and the Lyceums and townhall meetings of the 19th century also suggest the tone of American life we hope to facilitate. We feel book clubs bring people into the public conversation in a meaningful way, and reader's circles are a format that we hope adds a new dynamic to the mix of social gatherings that make for a vibrant democracy.

501(c)(3) Non-profit

Unlike some .org’s, which may in fact be for-profit businesses, Reader’s Circle is the real thing. All donations are used to support our mission: to build an inclusive community, the reading public brought together as a body instead of existing merely as an abstraction.

Reader's Circle currently has 764 book club listings and 174 authors available for over-the-phone visits with groups that have selected their book. Top cities include: New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, and Brooklyn; Portland, Cambridge, Minneapolis, Arlington, Houston, Austin, San Jose, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and Phoenix.

Author Phone Chats

Speak with an author at your next club meeting. Click on a name to send an email.

The Samson Effect

Tony Eldridge

Beyond Mud and Vines

Jacqueline Jorgensen

   

Sixtyfive Roses:

A Sister's Memoir

Heather Cariou

The Story Behind the Glory: Winning Quotes

Bill Cairo

   

Two Weeks Since

My Last Confession

Kate Genovese

Dark Canvas

Jody Summers

   

Big Money

Jack Getze

The Site

Andrew Dawber

   

If Not Now, When?

Don O'neal

Mind Your Manors!

Patricia Bremmer

   

Turning Tables

Heather and Rose MacDowell

Emerald Enigma

C. J. Westwick

   

Becoming Auma

Melinda Josiah Geaumont

Working At the Ballpark

Tom Jones

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