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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

Dixie Divas (Birmingham)

Imani Book Club (Montgomery)
p. 238

ALASKA

Four Major Food Groups (Anchorage)
p. 314

No Name (Anchorage)

ARIZONA

Alice Haddix (Tucson)
p. 346

Contemporary Book Discussion Club (Tempe)
p. 79

Potluck Book Club (Phoenix)

Sino-American Discussion Group (Phoenix)
p. 56

ARKANSAS

That Bookgroup of Cookie's (Blytheville)
p. 337

CALIFORNIA

Aunties' Brigade (Santa Cruz)
p. 408

Bestsellers' Browsers (Sunnyvale & Los Angeles)

Bokklubben (San Diego)

Bookclub Eleven

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

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

Cypress Readers (Cypress)

East County Mothers' Club Book Club (Antioch)
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

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

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

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

Minga Suma Book Club (Los Angeles)
p. 64

No Name (San Francisco)

Pages and Plates (Los Angeles)
p. 247

Portola Hills Book Group (Portola Hills)
p. 19

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

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

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

Wednesday Afternoon Lunch and Book Club (San Diego)

CANADA

Chicklit Chicas (Ottawa, Ontario)

College Street Book Club (Toronto, Ontario)

COLORADO

Elinor Hellis (Denver)
p. 442

Boulder Great Books (Boulder)
p. 212

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

CONNECTICUT

Book Bites Book Club (Forestville)

Sharon Conway (West Hartford)
p. 333

Stetson Book Club (New Haven)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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

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

Cover to Cover Girls Book Club (Lake County)

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

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

No Name (Tallahassee)

Sisters Book Club (Tampa)
p. 238

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

We Who Read (Ocala)

GEORGIA

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

HAWAII

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

ILLINOIS

Blue Anklets Book Club (Arlington Heights)

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

Read Between the Wines (McHenry)

Sarah Wortman (Chicago)
p. 107

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

MARYLAND

Bookworms (Baltimore)

Page Turners of Fallston High School (Fallston)

MASSACHUSETTS

Amy Miller (Needham)
p. 234

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

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

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

No Name (book club for the homeless) (Boston)

Real Men, Real Books (Needham)
p. 35

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

Thursday Evening Book Group (Haverhill)
p. 199

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

MICHIGAN

Morsels for the Mind (Grand Rapids)

MINNESOTA

Book Bags (New Prague)
p. 178

Bookies

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

Second Sunday Book Club (McComb)

Southern Book Club (Vicksburg)
p. 400

MISSOURI

Book Club Girls' Club (BCGC) (St. Louis)

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

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

Rockhill Book Club (Kansas City)
p. 140

Shannon Bloomstran (St. Louis)
p. 232

MONTANA

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

NEW JERSEY

Alcott Society (Englewood)
p. 373

Algonquin Book Club (Scotch Plains)

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

Chicklits (New York City)

Ebony Book Club (Brooklyn)
p. 319

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

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

Ladies of Autumnwood (Grand Island)

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

Urban Book Club (New York City)
p. 309

NORTH CAROLINA

The Drinking Woman's Book Club (Raleigh)

Regional Readers (Knightsdale)
p. 84

OHIO

Summerwood Book Club (Columbus)
recipe, p. 271

The 3rd Monday Book Group (Twinsburg)

OREGON

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

PENNSYLVANIA

Cheryl Haze (Philadelphia)
p. 364

Food for Thought Book Club (Lebanon)

Food for Thought Book Club (Annville)

Novels and Nibbles (Bucks County)

Pandora Book Club (Philadelphia)
p. 341

Reading Hearts (Philadelphia)

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

SOUTH CAROLINA

Chapter 3 Reading Group (Pawleys Island)

Les Livres (Beaufort)
p. 376

TEXAS

Bay Area Book Club (Houston)

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

The Book at Hand Club (Las Colinas)

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

New Book Club (Austin)
p. 242

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

Pre-Oprah Saturday Morning Book Club (Dallas)

Spicewood Springs Library Mystery Group (Austin)

VIRGINIA

Classics Book Club (Arlington)
p. 173

Thomas Jefferson Book Club (Falls Church)

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

WISCONSIN

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

T.H.U.R.S. (Cable)

WYOMING

Meeteetse Book Group (Meeteetse)
p. 471

 

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