Book Club FAQs
Book Clubs meet every month. A book is selected by the group, we read it, and then get together to talk about it. Pretty standard! (If it’s a longer book, we may meet to talk about the first and second halves over two months.)
- Unnamed: Sat 10am-12pm (2nd Sat every other month)
- Unnamed: Mon 6pm-8pm (3rd Mon every other month)
- Classics: Mon 6pm-8pm (4th Sat every other month)
- Mon 6pm-8pm (2nd Mon every month)
- Sat 10:30am-12:30pm (last Sat every month)
Books are chosen by members of the book club! In general, we try to vary who’s suggesting selections, and the members vote on the next book.
You do not need to buy the book from us, but if you ARE planning to buy the book, it helps us out if you buy it from us! Of course, we can’t guarantee we’ll have multiple used copies of every book, but we will always have book club selections listed at Bookshop.org. (We’re big fans, and recommend buying your books from Bookshop whenever possible!)
We don’t have a way to give you a discount directly through their website, but if you show us your receipt, we’ll give you 10% of that total back in store credit! (Only applicable with books purchased on Bookshop.org.)
If enough people are buying books and attending book clubs, we can also start ordering for folks in the future!
Sure! You’ll get our standard $1-3 in store credit (on top of the 10% credit with Bookshop.org purchases).
No, although you’ll probably want to have read at least 75% of the book (it’s hard to discuss a book without having read a decent chunk of it). And keep in mind that we’ll be talking about the entirety of the book, so there’ll definitely be spoilers!
Nope! Book clubs are free! As long as it is supporting our mission to promote literacy, we’re happy to have folks in the store!
That said, it DOES cost us money, primarily in staff time. If you’d like to help support the store and keep book clubs going, the best way is to attend the clubs that interest you, and if you plan to purchase the book, to order through our link at Bookshop.org. (If you aren’t planning to buy the book, ie check it out at the library, fantastic! We’re huge fans of public libraries!)
That said, it DOES cost us money, primarily in staff time. If you’d like to help support the store and keep book clubs going, the best way is to attend the clubs that interest you, and if you plan to purchase the book, to order through our link at Bookshop.org. (If you aren’t planning to buy the book, ie check it out at the library, fantastic! We’re huge fans of public libraries!)
Book clubs are new to us here, and we’re open to suggestions! This is just the current form for the clubs, and if people want them to change and/or add more events, we’re happy to work with that. And if you want to try out something different, talk to us, and we can work to make it happen!