About us
Suggest new books or locations using this link: Baltimore Books and Brews Suggestions
It's hard to make friends as an adult. Come join a low-stakes kind of book club where we hang out, chat about our monthly book, and build community.
Didn't finish the book? Only watched the movie? Hated it? Just want to listen to other people talk about a book you've never read? Everyone is welcome!
We'll rotate breweries or coffee shops for meet ups once a month (usually the 3rd Saturday of the month).
What to expect:
- To encourage and spark conversations we'd like to open meet ups by going around the room, introducing ourselves by rating the book 1-5 stars and a couple sentences about what you thought about the book.
- At the end of the meeting we’ll spin a wheel full of genres for a random genre and then use that to select a book from out Suggestion list at random for future events.
- Events planned a few months in advance to give everyone more time to find, place on hold, and read the book.
- We want your suggestions! - we really value the input from the group and wanted to keep all those great book and location suggestions in one spot where they won't get lost for future meetups.
Featured event

September Book Club: The Bone Parade by Mark Nykanen
September Genre: Horror/Thriller
September Book: The Bone Parade by Mark Nykanen
Location: Mobtown Brewing
A thriller about a serial killer who creates art from his victims is "deeply unsettling and exciting—a testament to the author's skill as a storyteller" ( Booklist).
Ashley Stassler is not your average artist. He has been wildly praised for a series of bronze sculptures that group families together, depicting them in moments of excruciating physical and emotional pain—but the art world has no clue as to how he creates such authentic, gruesome, seemingly tortured human representations. He assigns each family a number, and now he's up to number nine. What's in store for family #9? Cruelty and savagery that you can't even imagine . . . The Bone Parade introduces a villain who is as methodical, calculating, and detached as any found in the best fiction. It's gripping. It's chilling. You might be too afraid to read on, but you'll never be able to tear your eyes away.
"A gruesome chiller that's an amalgamation of Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs." — Publishers Weekly
Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
Bookshop dot org
GoodReads
StoryGraph
Upcoming events
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September Book Club: The Bone Parade by Mark Nykanen
Mobtown Brewery, 4015 Foster Avenue, Baltimore, MD, USSeptember Genre: Horror/Thriller
September Book: The Bone Parade by Mark Nykanen
Location: Mobtown BrewingA thriller about a serial killer who creates art from his victims is "deeply unsettling and exciting—a testament to the author's skill as a storyteller" ( Booklist).
Ashley Stassler is not your average artist. He has been wildly praised for a series of bronze sculptures that group families together, depicting them in moments of excruciating physical and emotional pain—but the art world has no clue as to how he creates such authentic, gruesome, seemingly tortured human representations. He assigns each family a number, and now he's up to number nine. What's in store for family #9? Cruelty and savagery that you can't even imagine . . . The Bone Parade introduces a villain who is as methodical, calculating, and detached as any found in the best fiction. It's gripping. It's chilling. You might be too afraid to read on, but you'll never be able to tear your eyes away.
"A gruesome chiller that's an amalgamation of Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs." — Publishers WeeklyWhere to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
Bookshop dot org
GoodReads
StoryGraph9 attendees
October Book Club: True Crime
Pratt Street Ale House, 206 West Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, USOctober Genre: True Crime
October Book: Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
Location: Pratt Street Ale HouseIn 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing: it was secretly run by the FBI. Backdoor access to Anom and a series of related investigations granted American, Australian, and European authorities a front-row seat to the underworld. Tens of thousands of criminals worldwide appeared in full view of the same agents they were trying to evade. International smugglers. Money launderers. Hitmen. A sprawling global economy as efficient and interconnected as the legal one. Officers watched drug shipments and murder plots unfold, making arrests without blowing their cover. But, as the FBI started to lose control of Anom, did the agency go too far? A painstakingly investigated exposé, Dark Wire reveals the true scale and stakes of this unprecedented operation through the agents and crooks who were there. This fly-on-the-wall thriller is a caper for our modern world, where no one can be sure who is listening in.
Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
BookShip Dot Org
GoodReads
StoryGraph2 attendees
Past events
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