book club

plural book clubs · alternative bookclub

1. A group of people who meet to discuss the books they have been reading.

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   Perhaps it helped that many of the Founding Fathers – think of it as a powdered-wig book club – were reading some of the same 17th and 18th century European philosophers of the Enlightenment, writers such as John Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu, who praised scientific advances, and preached that human beings had “natural rights” of life, liberty, and property, ideas that were already rippling through intellectual circles around the globe.

   2026 May 9, Scott Baldauf, Colette Davidson, Whitney Eulich, “America at 250: A declaration of ideals reset the world – and still resonates today”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 May 2026

   Synonyms: reading group, book group, book discussion group, book society

2. A commercial organization offering subscribers a selection of books from a catalogue.

   Synonyms: book sales club