Book Club Checklist

Before You Open a Book Club

• Think why you are starting a book club.
• Decide what type of people will make up the club.
• Decide what types of books will your club read.
• Think who will be the leader of the book club.
• Decide where your book club will hold the meetings.
• Consider opening a virtual book club.
• Determine what is the minimum and the maximum number of members that your club can accommodate.
• Decide when will be the first meeting.
• Find prospective memebers of the club and contact them.
• Before the first meeting, recommend that everyone has read at least one chapter of the chosen book and has at least one question to discuss.

First Book Club Meeting

• Decide who will lead the book club meetings.
• Set a price limit to books you will be reading.
• Decide who will keep the record of all the books read.
• Decide on the place for next meetings.
• Decide if anyone should organize drinks and/or snacks.

Choosing a Book

• Allow each member to make a suggestion and take a vote.
• Take turn - choose a person to decide what book should be selected next.
• Taka a blind vote.
• Have several book titles ready and blindly select the one.
• Check magazines or newspapers for book reviews and select the book with the best opinions.

Discussion

• Write down page numbers and passages that you would like to share with the group.
• See if any one in the group has a question they'd like to discuss.
• Find discussion questions on publishers' websites.
• Talk about the character development.
• Discuss similarity to any other books.
• Discuss Why you think the author chose the title.
• Discuss the parts of the book that you didn't understand.