The Brighton Book Club

Hello and welcome to the Brighton Book Club. This is a group for all bookworms and avid readers, whatever your preferred choice of fiction. We meet on the first Wednesday of every month.
We select our books by an entirely democratic process. At any moment in time, we have a 'longlist', usually of between ten and twenty books. Twice a year, in April and October, this list is wiped clean and any member attending the meeting that month can add a book to the refreshed list if it meets our criteria (widely available in paperback for less than around £10, no more than approx 450 pages, not the second or later volume of a series where you need to read the earlier ones first). During the week before each regular monthly meeting I email the longlist to those members who have visited the Meetup group online during the previous three months, and ask for three votes by email.  The 3 or 4 books with most votes by email go forward onto a shortlist, which is then voted on at the end of the meeting to select the book to be read two months ahead. Unselected books remain on the longlist.