book group

plural book groups

1. Synonym of book club.

   “At university I was in a life-shattering ‘situationship’ with a guy who ran a Ulysses book group,” she says. “Even at the time, when I really liked him, I thought it was a bit of an ick. I’ve still never read it because of that dating experience.”

   2026 February 13, Emma Loffhagen, “‘His favourite book was by Jordan Peterson, which was a massive ick’: how books perform on dating apps”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   And as Trump unleashed a torrent of norm-puncturing executive orders — declaring newly forbidden words here, renaming a body of water there, making assertions that seemingly mean their polar opposite — so many references to “1984” have flooded the political conversation that it feels as if nearly half the electorate joined the same book group.

   2025 March 29, Matthew Purdy, “We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: book club