The Club Book author series welcomes best-selling fiction writer Stewart O'Nan to the Southdale Library to read from his latest work, "The Odds: A Love Story."

Martin Rojas founded the club on the principle that "young people could self-educate themselves outside of any institution that tells them what to do."

Elizabeth Royte's "Bottlemania" never waters-down the distressing truth about drinking water. 

The Minnesota Atheists Book Club debates "The Satanic Bible." 

The Hamline GLS Alumni Poetry Book Club is composed of aspiring and published poets who meet once a week to discuss books of poetry "from the point of view of getting published ourselves," said Jean Larson, who hosted the club's discussion of Rita Dove's "American Smooth."

On a recent Tuesday evening, members of a World Without Genocide book club gathered in a Guthrie Theater classroom to discuss Robert Skloot’s one-act play, “If the Whole Body Dies.”

"Too Much Happiness" spurred a few truth-in-packaging issues among attendees of the Birchbark Books/Kenwood Café book-club event.

Members of the Sisterhood of Intelligent Mothers Fellowshipping book club compare Lee Daniels' film to Sapphire's "Push," which they'd read together.

The Men's Book Club of Grand Rapids, Minn., operates by two inviolable rules: 1) Everyone has his say, and 2) No fisticuffs, "verbal or otherwise."

Minnesota writer Cheri Register has spoken to nearly 100 book clubs since 2002. This one was unforgettable — at Shakopee Women's Correctional Facility.

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The evolution of American book clubs: A timeline by Audra Otto
A Q&A with spoken-word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai by Dara Syrkin
Letters from Audra: Book clubs — then and now by Audra Otto