Join the club
There’s something magical about sharing a good book with a friend. From comparing notes on world-building to kvetching about lackluster endings, to book club questions and discussions that keep a story alive long after the final page. When the world locked down in 2020, readers didn’t stop swapping book notes. Instead, they set up websites and forums to host an online book club.
It’s 2022 now, and the Zoom parties haven’t stopped. Turns out there’s joy in communing from a distance. And the beauty of virtual clubs is that you can easily find a group of people who enjoy the same writing styles and book preferences as you do.
To help save you time, we’ve rounded up 15 online book club options. Whether you’re hoping to read the best books of all time, book club books, books for teens, romance novels, books by Black authors, or titles from book subscription boxes, these virtual communities are the perfect place to start.
Scholastic Book Clubs
Past reads: Stone Soup by Jon J Muth, Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete by James Dean, Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
The Scholastic Book Club has been chugging along since 1948, so it’s no wonder the name conjures memories of elementary school libraries and that new book smell. Scholastic Book Clubs help parents and teachers work together to offer kids a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction books—all at a relatively affordable price. It works like this: Teachers create a book club for their classroom, which triggers a mailing of digital or paper flyers with age-appropriate books that are available each month. Families order whichever books they want, then wait for the books to be delivered to their child’s classroom. Homeschooling parents can set up their own family book clubs, so no one gets left out.
