We brought our group to Meetup.com in April 2010, but we actually began our monthly book discussions in September 2009.  We have been having our meetings the first Wednesday evening of every month, 7pm at Red Hook Coffee & Tea (765 S 4th St - between Fitzwater & Catharine in Queen Village). The meetings generally go no later than 9pm. We are casual and enthusiastic; our members enjoy reading and collectively choosing and discussing books on a monthly basis.

We take turns selecting the books for each month.  We determine our book for a given month two months ahead of the meetup.  A pre-determined member brings three book selections to the meeting (& posts online beforehand), and after we discuss the book at hand, we vote on the new book. We are sticking with paperbacks (affordable - under $15, practical), and under 400 pages if we can. All genres are open. Our club is currently free and open to all. Please join us!

In March we will discuss:
THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO by Christopher Priest

and in April we will discuss:

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Here is the list of our previously read books (newest to oldest):

The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Father Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
The Cave - José Saramago
My Life in France - Julia Child & Alex Prud'Homme
Nurtureshock:  New Thinking
About Children - Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Sex with Kings - Eleanor Herman
Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
The Color of Water:  A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So - Mark Vonnegut
The Believers - Zoe Heller
Finding Nouf - Zoe Ferraris
House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Priceless - Robert K. Wittman
The New Kings of Nonfiction - edited and introduced by Ira Glass
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Flashman and the Dragon - George MacDonald Fraser
The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel - Paul Auster
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy
Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey
Sunflowers - Sheramy Bundrick
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
The Lazarus Project - Aleksandar Hemon
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Road - Cormac McCarthy