How To Start A Book Club Discussion. Include in that email or evite a way for members to tell you/other club members to let you know (if you do potluck) what they're bringing. How to start a book club.
If you're not squeamish about writing in the margins, try taking notes and underlining passages as you go along. Here at pi, members of the executive team regularly attend (and sometimes host) our monthly book club. Invite an outside facilitator (english teacher or librarian), paid or unpaid.
In a discussion book club, the whole group reads the same book between each meeting, usually one per month.
Your book club is already well on its way. First, get a group together: How to find your group, pick a book, and where to start with discussion. Appoint a club member—whoever selected the book or the person who is hosting.