Creating Book Club Reading List

Video Transcript

"I'm Jeanne Rock and we're talking about how to create a book club list. Now sometimes you don't have an option as to the books that you're going to read particularly if you belong to a book club that is sponsored by a book store or the library. But if you're in a group where you can choose books, there's several methods that you can use. In our book group, we have going through several different incarnations of choosing. It first started out that I had categories and so we just voted. And sometimes it was just very time consuming. It would take us two hours to decide on our books. Today what we do is we submit three decisions to one person. She combines the list, sends it out to everybody and then we vote, in our meeting, on the books that we want. Generally we choose 12 books or 11 books every year because we have the book a month, except for December where we have a party and choose our next list. If you don't want to spend two hours choosing your list for the next year, you could assign one person to be in charge of discussing a book for the month and that person chooses their own book the month before and lets everyone know."