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Redondo Beach Book Club

Redondo Beach, CA, US

897 members · Public group

Organized by Angela and 3 others

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What we’re about

Do you live in Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, maybe Hermosa Beach? Do you like reading great books and socializing with smart, plugged-in fellow readers? Then you're in the right place!

Now in its ninth year, the Redondo Beach Book Club meets once monthly and reads a variety of books voted in by the members (both fiction and nonfiction). There's no age minimum or maximum. Everyone is welcome. We do ask that your profile include a recent photo in order to be admitted to the group, for everyones safety. Thank you!

If you'd like to attend a meetup, join the wait list and read the book. Most of the wait list usually gets in by the time the meeting happens. Please note, however, that we're strict about the No Show Policy (copied at the bottom of each meetup description).

Happy reading! :)

Upcoming events (3)

Sun, Apr 27, 2025, 12:00 PM PDT10 Year Redondo Beach Book Club Anniversary Celebration!!
Common Space Brewery , Hawthorne, CA
RSVP TODAY for Redondo Beach Book Club's 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

(PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A SUNDAY—NOT A SATURDAY!)

We've secured a larger, family-friendly space so partners, kiddos, other family members, best friends, new friends are welcome. We want to meet the people who've been supporting your dedicated book club habit all these years! :)

Potluck. Raffle. Music. Decorations. (Maybe) Games.

No reading assignment this time... just a celebration of 10 years of reading leading to smart conversation leading to friendship.

Whether you've been with the Redondo Beach Book Club since the beginning or attended your first meeting last month... we'd love to see you there! Consider it a low pressure way to hang out with some of the coolest readers in the South Bay.

Location:
We booked a private room called The Gallery at Common Space Brewery (3411 W El Segundo Blvd, Hawthorne, CA 90250).

Start time:
Room available at noon!

Cost:
Cost per adult is $30 to cover the venue's drink minimum and you'll get that back in drink tickets. It's a kid-friendly place and kids are free.

How to pay:
Please find Faith to pay! She takes Venmo and cash.

What to bring:
We're hosting a potluck for those able to participate. A sign-up sheet will be sent separately to everyone who RSVPs. No outside alcohol allowed. You can bring soft drinks if you'd like, though.

Happy Reading!
Angela & Faith
54 attendees+49
Sat, May 10, 2025, 11:30 AM PDTMay: "Liberation Day: Stories" by George Saunders
Needs location
LOCATION:
Kim's house in Redondo Beach! Address will be emailed the Friday before.

WHAT WE'RE READING:
Redondo Beach Book Club picks up its second George Saunders!

The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.

NO SHOW POLICY:
In April 2019, a new NO SHOW POLICY was put into place to help ensure people on the waitlist can get into each meeting with enough time to read the book while also weeding out flakey flakers who reserve a seat but don't use it. The new NO SHOW POLICY is in two parts:

(1) If you RSVP 'Going' and cancel your RSVP within seven days of book club WITHOUT EXPLANATION, you'll be immediately removed from the group.

(2) If you RSVP 'Going' and cancel your RSVP within seven days of book club with explanation, but for any reason, you'll be marked a 'No Show.' If you rack up three 'No Shows," you'll be removed from the group.
34 attendees+29
Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 11:30 AM PDTJune: Book TBD
Needs location
LOCATION:
Shannon's house! Address will be emailed the Friday before.

WHAT WE'RE READING:
We'll pick the June book during the April (maybe May) meeting.

NO SHOW POLICY:
In April 2019, a new NO SHOW POLICY was put into place to help ensure people on the waitlist can get into each meeting with enough time to read the book while also weeding out flakey flakers who reserve a seat but don't use it. The new NO SHOW POLICY is in two parts:

(1) If you RSVP 'Going' and cancel your RSVP within seven days of book club WITHOUT EXPLANATION, you'll be immediately removed from the group.

(2) If you RSVP 'Going' and cancel your RSVP within seven days of book club with explanation, but for any reason, you'll be marked a 'No Show.' If you rack up three 'No Shows," you'll be removed from the group.
28 attendees+23

Past events (185)

Sat, Mar 29, 2025, 11:30 AM PDTMarch: "Orbital" by Samantha Harvery
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23 attendees+18
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