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There are many online resources that can help you find a Seattle-area book club to join.

If you wish to start your own book club, the and these from the Seattle Times may be useful.

Before your club meets, you might want to explore these questions with potential members.

• What types of books will be read and discussed?
• How many people should be invited?
• Should the group meet virtually or in person?
• When, where and how often your book club will meet?
• How long will meetings last?
• Who will lead the meetings and how?

Personalized Suggestions
Our staff can help you find personalized reading lists for you or your book club through Your Next Five 91p¸£ÀûÔÚÏß.

Peak Picks
Our Library’s no-holds, no-wait collection highlights popular, newly released titles, and offers multiple copies of Peak Picks title at each Library location, which makes it a hit with book clubs.

Shelf Talk Blog
Our offers lots of ideas for book clubs and leisure reading of all kinds.

Selected lists
Our librarians have created staff picks booklists of recently published, thought-provoking fiction titles and nonfiction titles sure to spark discussion.

Seattle Reads
Visit Seattle Reads, our citywide book group, to find past titles or for information on how to participate in the program.

NoveList Plus
is an online resource that offers advanced search options for finding fiction and non-fiction titles, articles and more.

Reading Group Guides 
Find a discussion guide for the book your club is reading or browse the website to find your club’s next read at .

BookBrowse
provides book discussion ideas and guides, training videos, and other resources for book clubs.

The Library catalog, and OverDrive, our e-book and e-audiobook catalog, are both available online and are great places to find multiple copies of books for your book club.

While multiple copies are often immediately available, in some cases you and your book club members may need to place holds on a book to check out in the future.

Using our catalog
You can find copies available now and narrow the list according to branch location, book genre, publication date, author and more.

We allow up to 3 renewals on most items if others are not waiting, so you can check out many books for up to 12 weeks. Peak Picks titles are an exception, with a shorter checkout period of two weeks and no renewals.

To make sure that books for future discussion are available when you need them, you can place holds on books in advance and then use the feature in our catalog. This feature allows you to choose when you want the next available copy of a book to be held for you without losing your place in line.

Using OverDrive
We have an extensive and constantly expanding catalog of books in digital formats, both e-books and e-audiobooks, for you to download. Many titles in OverDrive are always available.

The American Library Association offers a that can help you prepare to lead a fun, lively and informative discussion. It also provides a , which contains excellent guidance on structuring meetings, asking good questions, and leading discussions.

Even the most successful book clubs have challenges. To help you navigate them, BookBrowse has a

91p¸£ÀûÔÚÏß that include or feature complex experiences of race, culture and identity can make for great discussions. This BookBrowse article suggests ways to have productive conversations about race and other potentially sensitive subjects.

Find out more about the author of a book your club is discussing

• See our 91p¸£ÀûÔÚÏß & Reading resources for more suggestions.

There are many tools and tips, reading guides and sample discussion questions available online that can help you lead book club discussions.

• , a popular online literary community.
• : Ideas for discussing any book
• : Specific discussion questions for particular books
• : Sample questions for fiction and nonfiction books
• : A guided-reading chart
• : Short, fun and educational courses