book club

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.

book club

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

First recorded in 1785–95

To my own surprise, last year I started a book club, which includes writers, editors and an agent.

My wife read The Leftovers with her book club but the one fight that broke out in book club was about the cigarette smoking.

This weekend I posted a book club entry about Adam Winkler's important history of US gun law, Gunfight.

Blogging the Revolution, the book by the authors of the Caracas Chronicles blog, was reviewed in David's Book Club yesterday.

At the Independent blog, John Rentoul replies to my book club entry on Catch-22.

A book club chose The Revenger, the critics sang its praises, and Bird bought himself a house in the country.

The Sin Book Club continued to be a profound secret, and was considered of great value.

The intentions of the book club are well known, to catch the productions of the press as they rise.

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.

Such a book-club, as the “Grolier,” of New York, is a fortunate avenue of escape from these evils.

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