Book Groups at Bookshop Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz offers many services for those interested in book groups.

Our Community Book Group is open to everyone in the community and is centered around works by bay area authors. Each month Bookshop selects a captivating read, discounts it 10% OFF the cover price, and invites you to read it. Then we hold a community book group event, which features a lively discussion of the book (facilitated by Julie Minnis) followed by a dialogue with the featured author. Plus we always have snacks and tea!

Teens and adults alike are invited to participate in our Young Adult Literature Community Book Group. Are you a parent or grandparent who is curious about why the teen in your life is drawn to reading one title over another? Do you want to understand more about what's so interesting in the book your child won't stop talking about? Are you yourself a fan and reader of young adult literature? Then we invited you to take part in our monthly reading group dedicated to young adult literature (literature broadly aimed at readers who are 12 and older). The group is facilitated by Nancy Litvak (newly retired librarian from Harbor High School) and generally meets on the second Wednesday of every month.

Bookshop Santa Cruz's Book Group Registry program offers many benefits to local book groups: a 10% discount on the titles they read; special invitations to our Book Group Mixers; and our special email newsletter, Bookends, which includes excellent book group reading recommendations.

Take a peak at this selection of past Bookends Newsletters:

• March 2011
• February 2011
• August 2010
• June 2010
• January 2010
• October 2009

We also offer Book Group Mixers several times a year. These mixers are a great way to meet other individuals interested in joining an existing book group or starting a new one. The events feature presentations by authors and respresentatives of publishing houses, lots of great give-aways, raffle prizes, and staff recommendations of great book group titles.

Check out these recommended reads for Book Groups: 

Win a Bookshop Santa Cruz Gift Card
Submit your recommendation for a great book group pick and be entered in a monthly drawing for a $15 Bookshop Santa Cruz gift card. You can visit the book group wall in our paperback fiction room to fill out and submit a recommendation, or you can email us and we'll fill it out for you. If you are submitting by email, please keep your reviews in the 50-75 word range. Also, please remember to include your book group's name.  

Recommended Reading Group Activities 

Read a review of Mudbound from the book group that won free copies for all their members by entering a contest in the Bookends email newsletter.