I've started a book club and would like help getting some ideas for books to read and how to structure meetings and how to advertise it.>Currently I have not settled on an exact club name. My focus is to make it a more thorough analysis of books both fiction and non fiction but I do want it to be accessible to novice readers or people who don't read that deeply>Clubs target audience will be around 18 -25 since thats my age group. I am open to letting anyone older in but do want a strict adults only club.>Meetups will be in my local library. If the first session goes well I will contact the library so I can geet them to help advertise the club for me.>Currently have 4 people who are going who are all friends I convinced to join>Friend 1 was a big reader in middle school and read stuff like dracula, war of the worlds, and then there were none, and tom sawyer.>Friend 2 read back in middle school although much less. He read mostly nonfiction about ww2. I currently have loaned him storm of steel but he has not told me what he thinks of it yet.>Friend 3 does not read chapter books and only reads manga and manwha. He says he likes Don Quixote but has never read the book and instead watched a youtube video on it. His knowledge of books all comes from limbus company although he never read any book it references except metamorphosis which was assigned reading in school.>Friend 4 does not read but is pretty open to it. He has mentioned he is a slow reader but otherwise does not mind what genre or topic we read.>Currently our first book is "of mice and men" friend 1 has read this previously and liked it.>Friends 1,2 and 4 all like frankenstein, metamorphosis, and the count of monte cristo which we read in highschool and middle school.Currently some ideas I have for books we can read are>And then there were none>The stranger>The lost world>Meditations>Slaughterhouse 5
>>34606614Check out charts on lit or look at college level english classes and their reading lists. Start off with easy books (easy as in easy compared to other classic works, not necessarily really easy to read although shorter books are good to start with). Pick a variety of books and maybe have some voting/input from the others and invite them to bring others. The classics are tried and true and are probably your best bet.
>>34606627What do you think of the current picks I have listed?
why don't you analyze the art of war or the gorin no sho instead of running back your high school curriculum or, how about thispick up the ars goetia and really make some nights to rememberif someone invited me to read of mice and men i would tell them i have soccer practice and then post a video of me drinking chocolate milk (not at soccer practice) on my snapchat story >ooh! and next up we are going to pick up a true classic, we're going to read some agatha christie :))))barf.ps don't take my advice i've never had a successful book club let alone four (4) simultaneous friends who like me
>>34606639Art of war was something I considered but these guys all complain that it’s too simple and just basic advice (they never read it). I was thinking of reading “on war” but I’m worried it’ll be too long for these guys. The prince is also something I considered but I assume they probably wont understand half of it due to all the references to history.
>>34606715Yeah, that's why I said don't take my advice. My advice is worthless for book clubs because as you're experiencing, book clubs are not really for the expansion of the minds and the furtherance of individual providence, but more of a political dance for friends to reinforce their preconceived notions and feel (socially) learnéd and bookish
>>34606752i think the prince would be a good choice though
>>34606630Those picks are great.
>>34606614Let people suggest books that join the club
The Discourses of Epictetus ought to be easy enough to get into for beginners, if any of them have an interest in philosophy. There's also a very good commentary on the Discourses by a Platonist named Simplicius that could work as a follow-up, assuming they enjoyed it.
picks are dryif you're going to read crusty old shit, read the first Dunebut you should start with easy reads, novellas and/or short story collections like stephen king's Nightmares and dreamscapes
