Book Clubs

Media/celebrity clubs, subscription clubs, reading-group networks and the historic mail-order clubs.

93 entries

Club / Program	Type	Country	Region	Home Base	Organizer / Host	How to Join	Website	Notes
Oprah's Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	Chicago	Oprah Winfrey (Harpo / Oprah Daily)	Open; follow the monthly pick, no membership required	oprah.com	Active. Launched 1996 on The Oprah Winfrey Show; the defining modern celebrity book club. Relaunched with Apple Books and Apple TV+ in 2019; picks continue via Oprah Daily.
Reese's Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	Los Angeles	Reese Witherspoon / Hello Sunshine	Open; monthly picks, app and social community	reesesbookclub.com	Active. Founded 2017; a Hello Sunshine brand with a dedicated app and live events; picks frequently become screen adaptations.
Read with Jenna	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	New York	Jenna Bush Hager / TODAY (NBC)	Open; follow the monthly TODAY Show pick	today.com	Active. Launched March 2019 as the TODAY Show's book club; monthly selections announced on air and online.
GMA Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	New York	ABC / Good Morning America	Open; follow the monthly pick	goodmorningamerica.com	Active. Launched 2019; monthly fiction and nonfiction picks promoted across ABC platforms.
The Tonight Show Book Club (Fallon's Book Club)	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	New York	Jimmy Fallon / NBC	Open; viewers vote on and read the chosen title		Active (intermittent). Began in 2018 as the Tonight Show Summer Reads, with viewers voting among candidate titles; revived in later seasons.
Belletrist	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	Los Angeles	Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss	Open; monthly picks via website, newsletter and social media	belletrist.com	Active. Founded 2017; celebrity-curated online book club focused on new fiction.
Service95 Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Dua Lipa / Service95	Open; monthly pick with author interview content	service95.com	Active. Launched June 2023 within Dua Lipa's Service95 editorial platform, with a linked podcast interview series.
Between Two Books	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Florence Welch	Open; picks announced via social media		Active. Founded 2012; one of the earliest celebrity-run online book clubs, centred on literary fiction and poetry.
Library Science	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	Los Angeles	Kaia Gerber	Open; reading lists and conversations via social media		Active. Launched 2020 as an online reading community sharing book conversations with authors and friends.
TeaTime Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	Los Angeles	Dakota Johnson / TeaTime Pictures	Open; join the Instagram broadcast channel		Active. Launched 1 March 2024; monthly literary and debut fiction picks with author interviews and playlists; grew out of TeaTime Pictures' search for adaptable books.
Well-Read Black Girl Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	New York	Glory Edim / Well-Read Black Girl	Open; online community, local chapters and annual festival	wellreadblackgirl.com	Active. Founded 2015; celebrates Black women writers, with reading guides, chapters and a literary festival.
Noname Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United States	North America	Chicago	Noname (Fatimah Warner)	Open; attend a local chapter meeting or follow monthly picks	nonamebooks.club	Active. Founded 2019; selects works by authors of colour and runs chapters including in prisons, with free books distributed to incarcerated readers.
Our Shared Shelf	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Emma Watson	Heritage; Goodreads group remains readable		Heritage. Feminist reading club that ran 2016-2020 via Goodreads; Watson announced in January 2020 that she was stepping back from running it.
Sonali Bendre's Book Club (SoBo Book Club)	Media & Celebrity	India	South Asia	Mumbai	Sonali Bendre Behl	Open; join the online community on social platforms		Active. Digital-first book club launched in 2017, built around a large Facebook and Instagram reading community in India.
Richard & Judy Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan / Channel 4, later WHSmith	Heritage; selections sold in WHSmith during its run		Heritage. Televised on Channel 4 from 2004 to 2009 and a major driver of UK book sales; relaunched as a WHSmith exclusive club in 2010 and ran into the mid-2010s.
Between the Covers	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	BBC Two / Sara Cox	Open; read along with the televised series		Heritage (most recent series 2023). BBC Two book club entertainment series hosted by Sara Cox, running to seven series from 2020.
The TV Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	More4 / Channel 4 (Cactus TV)	Heritage		Heritage. Televised book club that ran on More4 and Channel 4 from 2010 to 2012, succeeding the Richard & Judy slot.
BBC Radio 4 Bookclub	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	BBC Radio 4	Open; listeners read the featured book and put questions to the author		Active. Long-running Radio 4 programme, launched in 1998, in which a reading group questions a novelist about a featured book.
World Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	BBC World Service	Open; global listeners submit questions to featured authors		Active. BBC World Service programme running since 2002, built around a monthly book discussed with its author and a worldwide audience.
Zoe Sugg Book Club (WHSmith)	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	WHSmith with Zoe Sugg (Zoella)	Heritage; picks sold through WHSmith stores		Heritage. Young-adult book club launched with WHSmith in 2016, fronted by YouTuber Zoe Sugg.
Mumsnet Book Club	Media & Celebrity	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Mumsnet	Open; join the online community and monthly discussion	mumsnet.com	Active. Long-running online book club of the UK parenting community, with monthly picks and author webchats.
Canada Reads	Media & Celebrity	Canada	North America	Toronto	CBC	Open; read the shortlisted titles and follow the debates	cbc.ca	Active. CBC's annual 'battle of the books', running since 2002, in which panellists champion Canadian titles and the public reads along.
The Book Club (First Tuesday Book Club)	Media & Celebrity	Australia	Oceania & Pacific	Sydney	ABC TV / Jennifer Byrne	Heritage		Heritage. ABC television book club hosted by Jennifer Byrne, running 2006-2017 (as The First Tuesday Book Club, later The Book Club).
Book of the Month	Subscription	United States	North America	New York	Book of the Month	Paid subscription; monthly credit for one of 5-7 curated hardcovers, add-ons optional	bookofthemonth.com	Active. Modern subscription club founded 2015; a namesake revival of, but separate company from, the 1926 mail-order club (see Historic section).
Aardvark Book Club	Subscription	Canada	North America	Online (Canada; ships to Canada and the US)	Aardvark Book Club	Paid subscription; monthly credit for one of 4-5 curated hardcovers via app	aardvarkbookclub.com	Active. Founded 2022 in Canada; positioned as a smaller rival to Book of the Month.
Once Upon a Book Club	Subscription	United States	North America	Online (United States)	Once Upon a Book Club	Paid subscription box		Active. Subscription box pairing each month's book with wrapped gifts to be opened at marked pages.
OwlCrate	Subscription	United States	North America	Online (United States)	OwlCrate	Paid subscription box	owlcrate.com	Active. Young-adult subscription box founded in 2015, with exclusive editions and themed items; a middle-grade sibling (OwlCrate Jr) followed.
FairyLoot	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	FairyLoot	Paid subscription box (waitlist at times)	fairyloot.com	Active. Fantasy and YA subscription box founded in 2016, known for exclusive special editions.
Illumicrate	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Illumicrate	Paid subscription box	illumicrate.com	Active. Book subscription box founded in 2015, specialising in exclusive editions across genres.
The Willoughby Book Club	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	Leicestershire	The Willoughby Book Club	Paid personalised subscription; books chosen by its booksellers after a reader profile	willoughbybookclub.com	Active. Founded in 2013; personalised book subscriptions of 3, 6 or 12 months, widely sold as gifts.
Daunt Books Subscriptions	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Daunt Books	Paid personalised subscription arranged with the bookshop	dauntbooks.co.uk	Active. Retailer-run personalised book subscriptions from the London bookshop, including its well-known country-by-country and children's subscriptions.
Mr B's Reading Subscriptions	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	Bath	Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights	Paid personalised subscription based on a reading consultation	mrbsemporium.com	Active. Personalised subscriptions from the Bath bookshop, built around one-to-one 'bibliotherapy' consultations.
Rebel Book Club	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Rebel Book Club	Paid membership; monthly nonfiction book plus meetups		Active. Founded in 2015; nonfiction-focused club combining a book subscription with in-person and online events.
Books That Matter	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	Online (United Kingdom)	Books That Matter	Paid subscription box		Active. Feminist book subscription box founded in 2017, built around books by women writers.
Rare Birds Book Club	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	Edinburgh	Rare Birds Book Club	Paid subscription; choice of monthly titles by women writers		Active. Founded in 2016; subscription club dedicated to women's writing, with a surprise or choose-your-own format.
Goldsboro Premiere Book Club	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Goldsboro Books	Paid subscription for signed first editions	goldsborobooks.com	Active. Subscription club of the London bookshop specialising in signed, first-edition and special-edition fiction.
The Broken Binding Book Club	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	Online (Wales)	The Broken Binding	Paid subscription for special-edition science fiction and fantasy		Active. Independent bookseller's subscription tiers for exclusive SFF editions, launched in the late 2010s.
The Locked Library	Subscription	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	HarperCollins UK	Paid subscription box		Active. Publisher-run fantasy and romantasy subscription box with exclusive editions, launched by HarperCollins in the early 2020s.
Kube	Subscription	France	Western Europe	Paris	Kube	Paid personalised subscription box		Active. French personalised book box founded in 2015; a bookseller selects each month's book from the subscriber's stated tastes.
Bokklubben (De norske Bokklubbene)	Subscription	Norway	Northern Europe	Oslo	De norske Bokklubbene	Membership; buy club editions online	bokklubben.no	Active. Norway's book club house, founded in 1961 as a mail-order club and still trading online with multiple genre clubs (fiction, crime, children's and others).
TAG Livros (TAG Experiencias Literarias)	Subscription	Brazil	South America	Porto Alegre	TAG Experiencias Literarias	Paid subscription; monthly curated kit (TAG Curadoria) or new-release tier (TAG Ineditos)	taglivros.com.br	Active. Brazil's leading subscription book club, founded in 2014; reported 50,000 active subscribers in 2020 (company figure).
Fandeng Reading (Fan Deng Reading)	Subscription	China	East Asia	Shanghai	Fandeng Reading	Paid app subscription; also offline reading-club chapters		Active. Began in 2013 as Fan Deng's reading-sharing club; a paid app of narrated book summaries with a nationwide offline club network. Company-reported user figures vary and are not stated here.
Literati	Subscription	United States	North America	Austin	Literati	Paid subscription (consumer clubs wound down; school book fairs continue)	literati.com	Changed model. Founded in 2016 with celebrity-curated book clubs; ended its consumer subscription clubs and pivoted to school book fairs (Literati Book Fairs) in 2023.
Feminist Book Club	Subscription	United States	North America	Minneapolis	Feminist Book Club	Paid subscription box plus online community		Active. Intersectional feminist subscription box and community founded in 2017; proceeds partly support community organisations.
WellRead	Subscription	Australia	Oceania & Pacific	Online (Australia)	WellRead	Paid subscription; bookseller-chosen monthly book		Active. Australian curated book subscription service run by booksellers, with a standard and a children's option.
The Big Book Box	Subscription	India	South Asia	Online (India)	The Big Book Box	Paid subscription box		Active. Indian book subscription box service shipping themed boxes with books and merchandise across India.
Barnes & Noble Book Club	Retailer & Publisher	United States	North America	New York	Barnes & Noble	Open; buy the monthly pick and attend store discussion nights	barnesandnoble.com	Active. Retailer book club launched in 2018 with a monthly national pick and in-store events.
Target Book Club	Retailer & Publisher	United States	North America	Minneapolis	Target	Open; monthly picks sold in store and online	target.com	Active. Standing monthly book-club picks programme across Target stores, with adult and young-reader selections.
Amazon First Reads	Retailer & Publisher	United States	North America	Seattle	Amazon	Purchase-based; free monthly early-release eBook for Prime members	amazon.com	Active. Programme offering Prime members a free pre-publication Kindle book each month; launched as Kindle First in 2013 and renamed First Reads in 2018.
Heather's Picks (Indigo)	Retailer & Publisher	Canada	North America	Toronto	Indigo Books & Music / Heather Reisman	Open; picks programme in stores and online	indigo.ca	Active. The Canadian chain's long-running staff-picks programme, fronted by founder Heather Reisman and presented with book-club reading resources; a picks programme rather than a membership club.
Waterstones Book Clubs	Retailer & Publisher	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Waterstones	Open; join a local shop book club or follow monthly picks	waterstones.com	Active. The UK chain supports book clubs in many of its shops alongside a national Book of the Month selection.
Dymocks Book Club	Retailer & Publisher	Australia	Oceania & Pacific	Sydney	Dymocks	Open; online book club picks and content	dymocks.com.au	Active. The Australian chain's online book club hub with monthly picks and reading content.
Scholastic Book Clubs (Scholastic Reading Club)	Retailer & Publisher	United States	North America	New York	Scholastic	School-based; children order through teacher-run classroom clubs	scholastic.com	Active. Classroom book clubs run by Scholastic since the 1940s (including the long-running Seesaw and Lucky catalogues); a major channel of children's book buying in US schools.
Harlequin Reader Service	Retailer & Publisher	Canada	North America	Toronto	Harlequin (HarperCollins)	Paid direct subscription for category romance series books		Active. Long-running direct-to-reader subscription service delivering Harlequin series romances by mail and digitally.
Book Club Favorites (Simon & Schuster)	Retailer & Publisher	United States	North America	New York	Simon & Schuster	Open; publisher programme of picks, guides and author events for reading groups	simonandschuster.com	Active. Publisher-run programme supporting book clubs with selected titles, discussion guides and sweepstakes.
Book-of-the-Month Club	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	Book-of-the-Month Club (Harry Scherman; later Bookspan)	Heritage; mail-order membership (negative-option) model		Heritage/defunct. Founded in 1926 and the prototype of the modern book club; the mail-order club passed through Doubleday and Bookspan ownership and was wound down in the 2010s. Not the same company as the 2015 subscription Book of the Month.
Literary Guild	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	Literary Guild of America (later Doubleday / Bookspan)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Founded in 1927 as a rival to the Book-of-the-Month Club; long a Doubleday club and later part of Bookspan's club stable.
Doubleday Book Club	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	Doubleday	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Doubleday's flagship general-interest mail-order club, later operated within Bookspan.
Quality Paperback Book Club (QPB)	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	QPB (later Bookspan)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Paperback-focused mail-order club, notable for producing its own quality paperback editions; later part of Bookspan.
History Book Club	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	History Book Club (Bookspan stable)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Specialist history mail-order club founded in 1947; long operated alongside the other Bookspan clubs.
Military Book Club	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	Military Book Club (Bookspan stable)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Specialist military-history mail-order club within the Bookspan club stable.
Science Fiction Book Club	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	Science Fiction Book Club (Doubleday / Bookspan)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage. Founded in 1953 and among the longest-lived of the specialist mail-order clubs; continued in online form into the 2010s after the print catalogue era ended.
Mystery Guild	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	New York	Mystery Guild (Doubleday / Bookspan)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Crime and mystery mail-order club in the Doubleday/Bookspan stable.
Time-Life Books	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	Alexandria, Virginia	Time Inc.	Heritage; series sold by mail subscription		Heritage/defunct. Mail-order publisher of multi-volume series (1961-2003); a series-subscription programme rather than a membership club.
Reader's Digest Condensed Books / Select Editions	Historic Mail-Order	United States	North America	Pleasantville, New York	Reader's Digest Association	Heritage; books sold by mail subscription		Heritage. Condensed Books launched in 1950 (renamed Select Editions in 1997); the mail-order programme was wound down in most markets during the 2010s.
Puffin Club	Historic Mail-Order	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Penguin Books (Kaye Webb)	Heritage; children's membership club with magazine and events		Heritage. Penguin's children's book club, founded in 1967 under editor Kaye Webb and famous for the Puffin Post magazine; the print-era club ended and the brand was later revived in digital form by Penguin.
Left Book Club	Historic Mail-Order	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Victor Gollancz	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Political book club founded in 1936 by publisher Victor Gollancz; membership peaked at 57,000 in 1939 and it published 257 books before ending in 1948.
Right Book Club	Historic Mail-Order	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Foyles (Christina Foyle)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Conservative book club founded in 1937 by Christina Foyle as a counterweight to the Left Book Club; published until 1950.
Der Club Bertelsmann (Bertelsmann Lesering)	Historic Mail-Order	Germany	Western Europe	Gutersloh	Bertelsmann	Heritage; mail-order membership with shops		Heritage/defunct. Germany's dominant post-war book club, founded in 1950 as the Bertelsmann Lesering; Bertelsmann closed it on 31 December 2015.
France Loisirs	Historic Mail-Order	France	Western Europe	Paris	France Loisirs (founded by Bertelsmann and Presses de la Cite)	Membership; club editions sold via shops, catalogue and online	france-loisirs.fr	Still trading in much-reduced form. Founded in 1970 and long France's largest book club; after insolvency it was sold in December 2021 to Financiere Tresor du Patrimoine with most stores closed and most staff laid off.
Circulo de Lectores	Historic Mail-Order	Spain	Southern Europe	Barcelona	Circulo de Lectores (Bertelsmann; later Grupo Planeta)	Heritage; membership with door-to-door agent sales		Heritage/defunct. Founded by Bertelsmann in 1962 and long Spain's largest book club (with Latin American offshoots); Grupo Planeta, full owner from 2014, announced its closure in 2019.
Circulo do Livro	Historic Mail-Order	Brazil	South America	Sao Paulo	Circulo do Livro (Bertelsmann / Abril)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Brazilian mail-order book club founded in 1973 as a Bertelsmann-Abril venture; wound down in the 2000s.
Donauland	Historic Mail-Order	Austria	Western Europe	Vienna	Buchgemeinschaft Donauland (Bertelsmann)	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Bertelsmann's Austrian book club, founded in 1950 and the model for its international club expansion; wound down in the 2010s.
Club degli Editori	Historic Mail-Order	Italy	Southern Europe	Milan	Mondadori	Heritage; mail-order membership		Heritage/defunct. Mondadori's mail-order book club and one of Italy's best-known post-war club brands.
Knizni klub	Historic Mail-Order	Czech Republic	Eastern Europe & Black Sea	Prague	Knizni klub (Euromedia Group)	Membership; club editions sold online and by catalogue	knizniklub.cz	Active. Czech book club founded in 1992; a surviving Central European mail-order club, now trading mainly online.
Silent Book Club	Reading-Group Network	United States	North America	San Francisco	Silent Book Club (Guinevere de la Mare and Kristin Appenbrink)	Open; attend a local chapter's bring-your-own-book reading meetup, free	silentbook.club	Active. Founded in 2012; a global network of chapters in dozens of countries where members read together in silence and socialise around books.
Bookclubs	Reading-Group Network	United States	North America	Online (United States)	Bookclubs (bookclubs.com)	Open; create or find a club on the platform/app	bookclubs.com	Active. Platform and app for organising, discovering and running local and online book clubs, with polls, meetings and messaging tools.
BookBrowse	Reading-Group Network	United States	North America	Online (United States)	BookBrowse	Membership (free tier and paid premium); online book clubs and reading-group resources	bookbrowse.com	Active. Online book club community and reading-group resource founded in 1997, with hosted online clubs and extensive discussion guides.
Reading Groups for Everyone (The Reading Agency)	Reading-Group Network	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	The Reading Agency	Open; register a group for resources, offers and the group directory	readingagency.org.uk	Active. National network and support programme for reading groups run by UK reading charity The Reading Agency (founded 2002).
CAE Book Groups	Reading-Group Network	Australia	Oceania & Pacific	Melbourne	CAE (Centre for Adult Education)	Group enrolment; the scheme supplies book boxes and discussion notes to member groups	cae.edu.au	Active. Book discussion groups were among the founding activities of Melbourne's Council of Adult Education in 1947; CAE still runs one of Australia's largest book-group schemes, supplying sets of books to groups.
Book Discussion Scheme (BDS)	Reading-Group Network	New Zealand	Oceania & Pacific	Christchurch	Book Discussion Scheme Charitable Trust	Group subscription; the scheme lends sets of books with discussion notes to registered groups	bds.org.nz	Active. Founded in Canterbury in 1973; an independent charitable trust serving over 1,300 book groups across New Zealand (organisation's figure).
Book Club Central	Reading-Group Network	United States	North America	Chicago	American Library Association (with Sarah Jessica Parker)	Open; resources for library book clubs	ala.org	Programme (launched 2017). ALA initiative with Sarah Jessica Parker as honorary chair, promoting library-based book clubs and reading-group resources; its curated lists remain available through ALA.
ReadingGroupGuides.com	Reading-Group Network	United States	North America	New York	The Book Report Network	Open; free discussion guides and resources for reading groups	readinggroupguides.com	Active. Long-running free resource of discussion guides and book-club programming from Carol Fitzgerald's Book Report Network.
Great Group Reads (National Reading Group Month)	Reading-Group Network	United States	North America	New York	Women's National Book Association	Open; annual list of recommended titles for reading groups		Active. The WNBA's annual Great Group Reads list, published since 2009 as the centrepiece of National Reading Group Month (October).
BookCrossing	Reading-Group Network	International	North America	Boise, Idaho	BookCrossing	Open; free registration to label, share and track books and join community meetups	bookcrossing.com	Active. Global book-sharing community founded in 2001, whose members release books 'into the wild' and track them online; local groups hold regular meetups.
Black Girls Book Club	Reading-Group Network	United Kingdom	Northern Europe	London	Black Girls Book Club	Open; attend ticketed discussion events and salons		Active. London-based club and events platform founded in 2016 by Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Kate Osei, centred on books by Black women writers.
Leia Mulheres	Reading-Group Network	Brazil	South America	Sao Paulo	Leia Mulheres collective	Open; attend a local chapter meeting		Active. Brazilian feminist reading-club network founded in 2015 to read women authors, with chapters in dozens of cities across Brazil (and one in Porto, Portugal).
Stiftung Lesen (Reading Foundation)	Reading-Group Network	Germany	Western Europe	Mainz	Stiftung Lesen	Open; foundation programmes for schools, families and reading clubs	stiftunglesen.de	Active. Germany's national reading-promotion foundation, founded in 1988; supports reading clubs and school reading programmes nationwide. A foundation rather than a club federation.
Book Club Bar (hosted book clubs)	Reading-Group Network	United States	North America	New York	Book Club Bar	Open; join one of the venue's book clubs or attend events		Active. East Village bookshop-bar opened in 2019 that hosts multiple standing book clubs across genres.
ELF Book Clubs	Reading-Group Network	United Arab Emirates	Middle East	Dubai	Emirates Literature Foundation	Open; register via the Foundation's website for monthly meetings, including virtual sessions	elfdubai.org	Active. The foundation behind the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature runs monthly book clubs in Arabic and English, including a Children's Book Club; it also partners Expo City Dubai's Connecting Minds Book Club
Book O'Clock	Reading-Group Network	Nigeria	Africa	Sokoto	Book O'Clock (founder Nzube Nlebedim)	Open; monthly reads and virtual book chats centred on African literature		Active. Founded in 2020 by students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto; organiser of the Sokoto Book and Arts Festival; covered by OkayAfrica and University World News
Women's Group Lagos	Reading-Group Network	Nigeria	Africa	Lagos	Mayowa Omogbenigun (founder)	Open to women readers based in Lagos; membership form and event registration via Instagram		Active. Founded January 2020; meets Saturday afternoons for discussion, book swaps and book drives for schoolgirls; profiled by Brittle Paper
Círculo Literario Cuesta Libros	Retailer & Publisher	Dominican Republic	Central America & Caribbean	Santo Domingo	Cuesta Libros	Open to the bookshop's customers; sessions at Cuesta Libros stores	cuestalibros.com	The literary circle of the Dominican Republic's leading bookshop (Centro Cuesta Nacional)

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