The Brighton Book Club

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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, in person at a pub in Brighton and Hove, UK.

We select our books by as democratic a process as we can. 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 400 pages, not the second or later volume of a series where you need to read the earlier ones first). A few days before each regular monthly meeting I email the longlist to all active members of the Meetup group, 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 discussed two months ahead. Unselected books remain on the longlist.