Mrs. Wagon asked for some book recommendations (good recommendations btw!) and I noticed a couple people mentioned book clubs. I'm curious, how many of you are a member of a book club and how do you pick books?

I have a "book club" with two of my GFs from HS. Every year, around Christmas, we pick 4 books each. We have rules. The first year we took that BBC list of 100 books . . . yeah, that one, and we each crossed off what we had read, and each picked 4 from the remaining books. That year we read a book each month, and only one book each month (ie, if we finished march's book early, we waited until april to start the next). This year, we each picked 4 books again, one from 4 categories (Classic, book that a movie was based on, a favourite and a free pick). We weren't allowed to pick any books that another member had read, and this year we're starting the next book as soon as everyone has finished the current book, which works out to about a book a month.