If you love books and want to join a book club, there are many on Insta. Continue reading to learn about 10 of the best book clubs on Instagram worth following.
1. Salt Water Reads
Salt Water Reads on Instagram is maintained by The Southern Coastal Book Club. They feature book recommendations that range from heart-racing thrillers to light-hearted romances and everything in between, mostly newer releases from contemporary authors.
Books are usually of a length you would read on a vacation to the beach, thus the name of the book club. There is no formal membership. Curators recommend books for everyone interested to read and offer a venue for public discussion about thoughts on the reading material.
Become a part of the discussion.
2. Pure Wow Book Club
The Pure Wow Book Club promotes books on Instagram and encourages its followers to read and share their thoughts about the selections. In addition to recommended reading, it provides reels from organizers discussing their reading preferences and authors discussing their work.
Monthly giveaways of new books are open for all followers to receive copies of new publications with no requirements other than to interact with the book club on the social media site. Followers are also invited to tag the book club in their own book-related posts.
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3. Ladies Lit Squad
The Ladies Lit Squad on Instagram is dedicated to the discussion of books written by women and Black authors. They recommend books on Instagram and promote independent booksellers. Followers are invited to comment on book selections they are reading via tagging.
The book club provides monthly prompts for reading selections and encourages additional reading by holding a yearly book challenge to inspire reading one or two books each month for the entire year. Choices of reading material are mostly classic or contemporary fiction.
Get involved in the chat.
4. Rebel Book Club
The Rebel Book Club aims to inspire learning through its book club by offering several non-fiction books to read each month. Members can read one or all three and then join in-person or virtual discussions to share their thoughts about the selections by tagging the book club.
Members can sign up for memberships that include in-person meetings of chapters in various locations of the UK or completely virtual meetings if that better suits their preference or location. You can keep up with everything happening in the group on their site and Instagram.
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5. Belletrist
Belletrist is an online book club started by actress Emma Roberts and her best friend, Karah Preiss. The book club operates completely online, bringing readers together to explore their monthly selections on Instagram and other venues that users may prefer.
The book club enjoys a variety of reading material that they examine through discussions with the author, as well as video and audio chats. You can also sign up for their newsletters and notifications of upcoming events that you can join, plus prize giveaways.
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6. Once Upon a Book Club
Once Upon a Book Club puts the fun into reading with monthly subscription boxes that include a newly released book, along with fun little additions like author’s signature plates, bookmarks, and a bag of little prizes designed to be opened as you arrive on certain pages of the book.
The book club is open to readers in the United States. You are invited to read the book and then tag the book club on Instagram to foster discussion among readers. You can sign up for either adult or young adult fiction, so it is ideal for anyone. There are also plenty of giveaways.
Subscribe to this book club.
7. Our Shared Shelf
Our Shared Shelf (OSS) was started by actress Emma Watson as an intersectional bi-feminist book club to explore books that spoke to their community in some ways. In the years since it began, Watson has stepped away from the book club, but participants continue to share on Instagram via peer recommendations and posts that tag OSS.
The group is unmoderated, but Watson continues to make book recommendations several times a year based on her personal reading that followers can then read and discuss online as they see fit. More than 370,000 followers continue to keep this book club alive.
Follow OSS to join in.
8. Reese’s Book Club
Reese’s Book Club was started by none other than Hollywood icon, Reese Witherspoon. Every month, Reese recommends a woman-centric book for her followers to read and discuss on Instagram and various other social media outlets. The club is one of the liveliest on Instagram.
The book club not only posts reels from Reese, but also from other celebrities who have read the selected book or authors who discuss their writing process, characters, and plot. In addition to the book discussion, there are a lot of literary items in the group’s store to choose from.
Check out what they offer.
9. Barnes and Noble Book Club
When it comes to books, who knows them better than retail giant Barnes and Noble? In addition to monthly book selections focusing on new releases, their book club on Instagram offers a variety of interactions, in some cases following books from inception to publication with updates.
Cover reveals sweepstakes, reels made by everyone from well-known faces to random readers can all be found on their Instagram account. You will also be in the loop for the annual Book of the Year contest where they nominate books based on which ones were most loved by customers.
Visit the bookstore on Instagram.
10. Between Two Books
Florence Welch of the Indie Rock Band, Florence and the Machine, started this book club after a fan wrote to her and suggested that she should share her well-known love of reading with others. Between Two Books was born and has continued to grow via a website and social media.
In addition to recommended reading, their Instagram posts feature book discussions with other musicians and question and answer sessions with book authors. The book selection is quite eclectic but is selected from newly released contemporary fiction.
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