How to Form a Local Book Club

Sharing a passion with others who have a common interest can be fun--especially when it comes to books. It is more exciting and fun when you can share a good book with more than one story. If you are looking for people to read books that others may have a common interest in, then you could form a book club in your area. With some flyers, word of mouth and some simple planning, you can be having fun with a group of friends in a book club in a small matter of time. Read below to follow some of the simple steps to create a book club in your area.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Flyers
• Good books
• Outline
• Snacks

1. 

   Contact a library in your area or local bookstores to see what the top popular books are on the reading lists. See if any of the books are of interest, and either check them out or purchase them.

2. Create flyers to place in your local area asking for members to join a new book club. Include days and times to meet, types of genres that you may be reading, age groups and a meeting place. Put flyers in area libraries, bookstores and even see if the newspapers will run a press release too.

3. Speak with friends, church members, family, co-workers and parents in your child's school to see if there is interest. See what type of book genre is popular in your local area and try to come to a compromise on a common interest to gather more members.

4. 

   Decide on an introduction book that you would like to begin the book club with. Glance over it and read the beginning of a few of the chapters to have common knowledge of the book. Set a time table and decide on how much time to spend on one book. Design an outline of key topics to discuss about the book, and plan any fun activities or food to serve to go along with the book reading.

5. Assign leaders for each book that the club decides to read. Let everyone have a chance to lead for those who would like to do so. Vote on group activities to do with each book, and even types of snacks to have with each new book. Try to have things that go along with the era in the book that you are reading to help everyone get more in touch with the story.

6. 

   Meet frequently like once a week or once every other week to keep in touch with everyone about the book. Try to keep up at similar paces so that everyone is on the same page. Keep interest alive with plenty of discussion, activities and a steady pace.

Tips & Warnings

• Be sure to read books that everyone in the group can enjoy. If you can't have an open mind, you could possibly lose members.

Resources

• Form a book club

[henasgoodbooks]

on 7/9/2009 You are right, selecting books that all members can enjoy and being open-minded are really important for having a fun book club.