Featured Books
Read An Excerpt

 

 

 

 

 

 


Book Clubs Featured in The Book Club Cookbook

The book clubs we contacted — and their ideas — became the heart and soul of our book. From hundreds of surveys with a diverse group of book clubs across the country, we identified the one hundred popular reading club titles featured in The Book Club Cookbook. During interviews, book club members shared stories of their book clubs, favorite books, recipes, and food ideas. Their creativity and diverse perspectives give The Book Club Cookbook its unique flavor.

ALABAMA

Adelante Book Group (Montevallo)
p. 184

Imani Book Club (Montgomery)
p. 238

ALASKA

Four Major Food Groups (Anchorage)
p. 314

ARIZONA

Alice Haddix (Tucson)
p. 346

Contemporary Book Discussion Club (Tempe)
p. 79

Sino-American Discussion Group (Phoenix)
p. 56

ARKANSAS

That Bookgroup of Cookies (Blytheville)
p. 337; recipe, p. 458

The Wednesday Club (Fort Smith)
p. 146

CALIFORNIA

Aunties' Brigade (Santa Cruz)
p. 408

Bookwomen (Encinitas)
p. 305; recipe, p. 304
www.bookwomn.com

Britta's Book Club (Irvine)
p. 225; recipes, pp. 193, 223

East County Mothers' Club Book Club (Antioch)
p. 459; recipes, pp. 211, 247

Epicureaders (San Francisco)
p. 25; recipe, p. 23
www.epicureaders.com

FRED (Friends Reading, Eating and Discussing Books) (San Francisco)
p. 299

A Room of Her Own Book Group (Redlands)
p. 360

Second Wednesday Dinner Club (Fullerton)
p. 450; recipes pp. 375, 448

Literary Society of San Diego (San Diego)
p. 248; recipes pp. 66, 67
www.literarysocietysd.org

Minga Suma Book Club (Los Angeles)
p. 64

Marcus Book Club (Oakland)
p. 190

Pages and Plates (Los Angeles)
p. 247

Pages Readers Group (Bellflower)
p. 273
www.pagesreadersgroup.com

Portola Hills Book Group (Portola Hills)
p. 19

Lisa Ryers (Pulitzer Prize books) (San Francisco)
pp. 5, 446

REAL (Readily Embracing African-American Literature) Book Club (Bakersfield)
p. 425

Silicon Valley Book Club (San Carlos)
p. 445; recipe, p. 296
quake.stanford.edu

Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club at the University of California at San Diego (San Diego)
p. 466

COLORADO

Denver Read and Feed Book Club (Denver)
p. 338

Elinor Hellis (Denver)
p. 442

Boulder Great Books (Boulder)
p. 212

Women of the West Book Club (Boulder)
p. 93

CONNECTICUT

Sharon Conway (West Hartford)
p. 333

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The Booker Tea Reading Group
p. 160
www.thebookertea.com

A Moment of Peace
p. 252

Network of South Asian Professionals (NetSAP) - DC Book Club
p. 206; recipe, p. 159

Sistahs About Reading
p. 292

Vegetarian Society of DC (VSDC) Book Club
p. 208; intro to recipe, p. 107
www.vsdc.org

FLORIDA

Boca Bibliophiles (Boca Raton)
p. 325

Brickell Avenue Literary Society (Coral Gables)
recipe, p. 395

LunaChics Literary Guild (Tallahassee)
p. 155
www.apalacheeseptic.com

NBA (No Boys Allowed) (Miami)
p. 67

Sistah Girl Reading Club (Miami)
p. 151

Sisters Book Club (Tampa)
p. 238

South Florida Preschool PTA Book Club (Miami)
p. 488

GEORGIA

Lisa Stone (Atlanta)
p. 194
www.fitfor2.com

Refreshing Reading Book Club (Atlanta)
p. 483

Soulfull Readers (Atlanta)
p. 118

We Just Wanna Have Fun Book Club (Atlanta)
p. 484

HAWAII

Borders Books and Music Best Sellers Book Club (Waipahu)
p. 44

IOWA

Let's Talk About It (Ames)
p. 434; recipe, p. 433

ILLINOIS

Cultures Club of the Park Forest Public Library (Park Forest)
pp. 76, 227
www.pfpl.org

Dubbya Dubbya Club (Chicago)
p. 13
www.dubbyadubbya.com

Book Club of Hope Hadassah (Chicago)
p. 283

Sarah Wortman (Chicago)
p. 107

STAR (Simply Thrilled About Reading) Book Club (Chicago)
p. 290
www.starbookclub.us

INDIANA

Critical Mass (Indianapolis)
p. 83

Go On Girl! Book Club (Indianapolis)
p. 74; recipe, p. 72,

Danner's Book Store (Muncie)
recipe, p. 78
www.DannersBooks.com

Judy Schroeder (Bloomington)
p. 329

KANSAS

Christy Sommerhauser (Wichita)
p. 455

Culinary Book Club of the Basehor Community Library (Basehor)
p. 402

KENTUCKY

Madisonville Community College Book Discussion Group (Madisonville)
p. 127

LOUISIANA

Talk About (Lafayette)
p. 3

MAINE

Maine Humanities Council Winter Weekends (Brunswick)
p. 32

Sierra Club of Maine Book Club (Eco Book Club) (Portland)
p. 475
maine.sierraclub.org

MASSACHUSETTS

Amy Miller (Needham)
p. 234

Sea Dogs (MIT) (Cambridge)
pp. 114, 270
www.ai.mit.edu

Daughters of Abraham (Cambridge)
p. 371
www.daughtersofabraham.info

Debby Saltzman (Westborough)
p. 389

Erika Gardiner/Stephanie Howard/Mary Breen (Boston suburbs)
pp. 21, 258, 270

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo Literary Discussion Group (Boston)
p. 494

Mary Ann Oldfield (Boston suburbs)
p. 392; recipe, p. 391

Novel Women (North Shore of Boston)
pp. 124, 393

Real Men, Real Books (Needham)
p. 35

Boston-Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Boston area)
p. 355

Thursday Evening Book Group (Haverhill)
p. 199

Wine, Women, and Words (Needham)
p. 362

MICHIGAN

Book Lovers Club (Ann Arbor)
p. 122
LBPD.ewashtenaw.org

University of Michigan School of Nursing OMA (Office of Multicultural Affairs) Book Club Discussion Group
p. 413

MINNESOTA

Book Bags (New Prague)
p. 178

College of St. Catherine Faculty Book Club (St. Paul)
p. 148

Dakota Heritage Library Reading Group (Lakeville)
p. 169

Lemmings (Rochester)
recipe, p. 417

Suzanne Brust (St. Paul)
pp. 51, 490

MISSISSIPPI

Southern Book Club (Vicksburg)
p. 400

MISSOURI

BookAnons (St. Louis)
p. 405
www.NovelReaders.com

Bookenders Book Club (Lee's Summit)
p. 479
www.bookenders.com

Happy Bookers (Linn)
p. 202

Rockhill Book Club (Kansas City)
p. 140

Shannon Bloomstran (St. Louis)
p. 232

MONTANA

Friends of Bozeman Library (Bozeman)
p. 496

Our Book Group Kicks Your Book Group's Butt (Missoula)
p. 8

NEW JERSEY

Alcott Society (Englewood)
p. 373

The Reading Society (Englewood)
p. 30

NEW MEXICO

Joseph Ginocchio (Santa Fe)
p. 279

Last Thursday Book Club (Albuquerque)
p. 131
www.mike.blackledge.com

Who Did It? A Grammatically Correct Mystery Book Club (Taos)
p. 298

NEW YORK

Book Club of the Brown University Club in New York (New York City)
pp. 268, 280, 472

Ebony Book Club (Brooklyn)
p. 319

Ed2010 New York Chapter Book Club (New York City)
p. 98

Inklings (Chittenango)
p. 262, recipe, p. 350

Richmond Memorial Library Adult Discussion Group (Batavia)
p. 339

Urban Book Club (New York City)
p. 309

NORTH CAROLINA

Regional Readers (Knightsdale)
p. 84

OHIO

Fair and Tender Ladies (Cincinnati)
p. 136

Summerwood Book Club (Columbus)
recipe, p. 271

OREGON

League of Women Voters Book Club (Corvallis)
p. 302

Movie Star Book Club (Portland)
p. 396
www.geocities.com

PENNSYLVANIA

Cheryl Haze (Philadelphia)
p. 364

Pandora Book Club (Philadelphia)
p. 341

Scranton One Book Program/Albright Memorial Library (Scranton)
p. 174

SOUTH CAROLINA

Les Livres (Beaufort)
p. 376

TEXAS

Black Madonna (Waco)
p. 88; recipe p. 86

Dallas Gourmet Book Club (Dallas)
p. 219; recipes, pp. 241, 345

Friends of the Fort Worth Public Library Book Forum (Fort Worth)
p. 234

Houston Book Club (Houston)
p. 419; recipe, p. 294

Lovely Ladies (Bryan College Station)
p. 39; recipe, pg. 318

New Book Club (Austin)
p. 242

The Old City Park Book Club & The Junior Historian Book Club (Dallas)
p. 103
www.oldcitypark.org

VIRGINIA

Classics Book Club (Arlington)
p. 173

WASHINGTON

Booked Wednesdays (Seattle)
p. 465

Got Wine Book Club (Redmond)
p. 164

Northwest Passages (Seattle)
p. 113

Wuthering Bites (Seattle)
p. 351; recipes, pp. 116, 478
www.wutheringbites.com

DRUM (Diverse Readings to Understand Multiculturalism) Book Club (Seattle)
p. 61; recipe, p. 423

WISCONSIN

Bethel Bookwomen (Madison)
p. 385

Milwaukee School of Engineering's Great Books Dinner and Discussion Series (Milwaukee)
p. 48
www.msoe.edu

WYOMING

Meeteetse Book Group (Meeteetse)
p. 471

Sage Sisters (Cody)
p. 381

Back to top.