Book Club Starter Kit
Book Club Starter Kit
Good books are even better when you have someone to talk about them with.
Whether you're starting your very first book club, giving an existing group a little fresh inspiration, or gathering readers online from miles apart, the Book Club Starter Kit can help you create a club that fits the people in it.
There is no single right way to have a book club. You might gather around a kitchen table, meet on a front porch, connect online, read mysteries all year, pair books with recipes or movies, or simply choose whatever everyone wants to read next.
This printable guide gives you practical ideas and useful pages to help you get started—and keep the conversation going.
Inside you'll find:
- Ideas for different types of book clubs
- Help defining your club's purpose, style, and guidelines
- Member and host/hostess planning pages
- Tools for choosing books and planning your reading year
- Discussion questions for fiction and nonfiction
- Author and book research prompts
- Meeting notes
- Ideas for keeping members engaged
- Help planning themed book club meetings
- Tips for getting a club through the occasional slump
- Guidance for inviting an author to visit your book club
- A ready-to-use author contact template
- Tips for creating and managing an online book club
- Online meeting etiquette and troubleshooting ideas
- A time zone tracker for members in different locations
Use every page or only the ones that suit your group. Print fresh copies of the planning and meeting pages as you need them, and let your book club change and grow along with its members.
Because the best book club isn't the one with the most rules or the fanciest meetings. It's the one people look forward to coming back to.
Digital product. No physical item will be shipped.
