book club

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noun

a company or other organization that sells books to its subscribers, often at a discount and usually through the mail.

a club organized for the discussion and reviewing of books.

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Also called, especially British, book society.

Origin of book club

First recorded in 1785–95

Words nearby book club

bookbinder, bookbindery, bookbinding, book burning, bookcase, book club, bookcraft, bookcrossing, booked up, bookend, Booker Prize

How to use book club in a sentence

According to his bio, he’s somewhere at the “bottom of the social hierarchy” but he has an underrated intellect and would make a great guest for a game of Scrabble or a book club meeting.
The latest thing on Zoom meetings: A live goat|Sydney Page|February 5, 2021|Washington Post
One standing appointment Collins has kept during the pandemic is with his book club, made up mostly of members of the Christiantelligentsia.
NIH Director Francis Collins Is Fighting This Coronavirus While Preparing for the Next One|Belinda Luscombe|February 4, 2021|Time
It’s guest hosted by Maria Konnikova, the New Yorker writer and author of The Biggest Bluff, which was the very first selection of our book club, last summer.
How to Be Better at Death (Ep. 450)|Maria Konnikova|February 4, 2021|Freakonomics
When Abraham’s son Kai, 10, had a hard time adjusting to online learning and yearned to spend more time with friends, she signed him up for an outdoor book club with other fourth- and fifth-grade boys who enjoy reading.
Seven ways to build a child’s resilience during the pandemic (and long after it ends)|Phyllis Fagell|January 26, 2021|Washington Post

The social aspect comes from digital book clubs, which paying users can start and non-paying customers can join.
One of tech’s most powerful women wants to modernize your book club|Claire Zillman|January 15, 2021|Fortune
To my own surprise, last year I started a book club, which includes writers, editors and an agent.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My wife read The Leftovers with her book club but the one fight that broke out in book club was about the cigarette smoking.
From ‘Lost’ to The Rapture: Creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta on HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’|Marlow Stern|June 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This weekend I posted a book club entry about Adam Winkler's important history of US gun law, Gunfight.
No, the 2nd Amendment Does Not Authorize Armed Sedition|David Frum|March 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Blogging the Revolution, the book by the authors of the Caracas Chronicles blog, was reviewed in David's Book Club yesterday.
Venezuelan Socialism in Practice|David Frum|March 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
At the Independent blog, John Rentoul replies to my book club entry on Catch-22.
A Rather Misguided Catch-22 Reaction|David Frum|January 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A book club chose The Revenger, the critics sang its praises, and Bird bought himself a house in the country.
The Five Arrows|Allan Chase
The Sin Book Club continued to be a profound secret, and was considered of great value.
Betty Leicester|Sarah Orne Jewett
The intentions of the book club are well known, to catch the productions of the press as they rise.
An History of Birmingham (1783)|William Hutton
She came to the last person she had met—the old lady who had come to the book-club meeting with a cane—Mrs. Moyer.
The Mystery of the Secret Band|Edith Lavell
Such a book-club, as the “Grolier,” of New York, is a fortunate avenue of escape from these evils.
In the Track of the Bookworm|Irving Browne

British Dictionary definitions for book club

book club

noun

a club that sells books at low prices to members, usually by mail order, esp on condition that they buy a minimum number

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