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Have you checked meetup.com to see if there already is a group meeting?

I haven't started a book club, but I did start a sewing circle of sorts. I started out by attending other similar meet ups, but there wasn't anything as inclusive as I was looking for (I was interested in knitting AND crochet, and at the time all groups were one or the other).

I learned from the groups what people liked and didn't like, and what types of spaces worked best, etc.

Then when I started my own group through meetup, I included a poll when people joined that included things like their preferred location and time.

But things like that do cost money, so if you know enough people to start one through Facebook, that may be easier. But it might not be as easy to meet new people.

We did a book club. I love the article club idea and brought it up to my book club when it started to fall apart, but nothing came of it.

I recently started a knitting club and we are still going strong. It's just a fun time to catch up. we meet once a month and IMO its better with 10 people or less. For book club i'd say 6-8 is ideal. We generally would let the person that's hosting the next time pick the book and we would rotate houses every time.

both the knitting and book clubs were just with my friends. Usually there are a couple people who know someone else who would be interested in joining. I've met 3 new people from our knitting club.

@Cole: if you are open to including people you don't know yet, I would check with your local library. Mine keeps a list of local book clubs, their theme if they have one, the current book and contact person. If yours does something like that, you might get some bites and you'll know they're readers!

I am in a group that has been really successful (not started by me). The woman who started it sent out an email to her friends with what she had in mind and asked then to forward to anyone they know who might be interested, which is how I got in the loop. There are about 20 people on the current list and about 6-10 show up to any given meeting, I'd say about half being the core regulars and then others who cycle in and out. Most have 1 or 2 degrees of separation from the original host. The group meets at a cafe either once a month or once every 2 months depending on the time of year (less often over the summer and during the holidays).