What we’re about
Welcome to our book club for adults who like to read in multiple genres and multiple age groups. We intentionally include diversity in our reading, including authors of color.
Please send me a message in MU if you're interested in hosting a book club meeting, if you have a book recommendation, or if you know of a venue where we could hold a meeting. We're always looking for new fun places conducive to conversation and fun.
Submit your suggestions for books to read in 2025
Helping Things Run Smoothly:
1. Respect all group members and their opinions.
Since reading and text interpretations are subjective, everyone will have their own opinion. Listening respectfully with an open mind allows us to share our thoughts without negativity.
2. Be considerate and respectful in your words and actions to eliminate conflict.
We may discuss topics with many differences of opinion. It’s important to understand that we’ve all had unique experiences over our lives, and those experiences affect our points of view. Don’t assume that a person has bad intentions. Instead, respectfully listen to their opinion with an open mind and heart, and then ask questions and/or offer your opinion, so that we can try to understand where we’re all coming from.
3. Minimize interruptions.
No raising of hands needed, just be mindful of not interrupting other group members, even if you disagree with their point of view. After one person makes their point, others can add to the discussion. That way, everyone can voice opinions freely. But, of course, feel free to raise your hand to get noticed if lots of members want to add to the discussion at once.
4. Minimize side conversations.
They can be distracting, and it’s likely that you have something the entire group would love to hear.
5. Let everyone have a chance to speak.
We’d like to hear everyone’s opinion. If the moderator notes that you’re frequently contributing, and others are not able to contribute, the conversation may be redirected so that other group members may speak. It’s our way of allowing everyone the chance to contribute.
6. Raise your hand if you need to.
If you’d like to share an opinion and haven’t been able to speak, feel free to raise your hand. Sometimes points can be made quickly by several participants, and it might be difficult to add to the conversation.
7. Disagreeing with the majority of the group is ok.
For a book that has a majority opinion, if you have a different thought, please be sure to share your ideas so that we can hear alternate points of view.
8. RSVPs
Please be sure to update your RSVP to “Not Going” as soon as you know you won’t be able to attend a meeting. We may be at some smaller venues with limited space, and we want to make sure that as many members who’d like to join us at meetings can. As a courtesy to everyone, a member may be removed from the group if repeatedly not showing up to meetings without updating the RSVP, or regularly canceling with very short notice.
9. Content
Themes will undoubtedly come up that are triggering to some members. Please read book descriptions so that you can make an informed decision as to whether or not you’re comfortable reading books chosen for meetings. There are also sites online that can provide some information about trigger warnings for different books. No site can eliminate all risk of potential triggers because of the wide range of triggers for different individuals. If something is triggering to you, please seek assistance from a trusted source. Topics may not be censored during our meetings. Please be sure that you’re comfortable with this before attending events, since we may be discussing things that you may not be comfortable discussing. If you'd like to step away from the group for a few minutes until that topic is finished, please feel free to do that.
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Upcoming events (4)
See all- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettRelevate Real Estate, Raleigh, NC
Hello Bookish Family - join us for our book club meeting where we'll have a great discussion about the book and have some social time as well.
The meeting space has a full kitchen area, so feel free to bring your dinner and a drink, or a dish to share. No pressure to do that, just offering it up. :) You're welcome to come to socialize and eat starting at 6 if you'd like. The book club discussion will officially start at 6:30. Thanks to my friend Sally Mackie for hosting us in her office!
Please consider supporting one of Raleigh's independent bookstores:
Beow's Books & Brews
Quail Ridge Books
So & So BooksRecommend a book for our 2025 reading list here.
About the Book:
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people.So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her.
But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart.
- The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas (Dinner & Drinks optional)Edit Beer, Raleigh, NC
Hello Bookish Family - join us for our book club meeting where we'll have a great discussion about the book and have some social time as well.
If anyone wants to eat/drink during book club, Scooters Bar & Grill is connected to Edit Beer, and you can also take your own food. There are also non-alcoholic beverages available to purchase.
Edit Beer
Scooters Bar & Grill in case yo want to order ahead of time to pu on your way in. Alcohol purchased at Scooters CAN'T be taken to Edit.Please consider supporting one of Raleigh's independent bookstores:
Quail Ridge Books
So & So Books
Beow's Books & BrewsRecommend a book for our 2025 reading list here.
About the Book:
Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him.She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool.
Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man.
But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.
- Pretty Girls by Karin SlaughterRelevate Real Estate, Raleigh, NC
Hello Bookish Family - join us for our book club meeting where we'll have a great discussion about the book and have some social time as well.
The meeting space has a full kitchen area, so feel free to bring your dinner and a drink, or a dish to share. No pressure to do that, just offering it up. :) You're welcome to come socialize and eat starting at 6 if you'd like. The book club discussion will officially start at 6:30. Thanks to my friend Sally Mackie for hosting us in her office!
Please consider supporting one of Raleigh's independent bookstores:
Beow's Books & Brews
Quail Ridge Books
So & So BooksRecommend a book for our 2025 reading list here.
About the Book:
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. - Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. JacksonAnn J’s Home, Raleigh, NC
Hello Bookish Family - join us for our book club meeting where we'll have a great discussion about the book and have some social time as well.
Please consider supporting one of Raleigh's independent bookstores:
Quail Ridge Books
So & So Books
Beow's Books & BrewsRecommend a book for our reading list here.
About the Book:
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried.When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn’t just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year’s rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her best—and only—friend more than ever. But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday’s sister April is even less help.
As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?
