Join Lemuria’s Book Club Registry and we’ll order your book club selections for you and let you know when they’re ready for pick-up!
Book Club Members will receive a membership card and receive a 10% discount on their book club’s reading selections.
We see members of Lemuria’s Book Club Registry as part of a reading community. Members will also have opportunities for exclusive sneak peeks at new releases and special author events.
To join have your book club leader fill out an application or stop by and talk to one of our booksellers.
Book Club Registry Application
Are you looking to join a book club? Lemuria hosts two book clubs that are open to our community.
The Lost Book Club of Atlantis
(open to the public)
The Lost Book Club of Atlantis began in 2006 and is facilitated by a Lemuria bookseller. Atlantis reads contemporary and modern fiction along with an occasional nonfiction selection chosen by a Lemuria bookseller.
This book club meets the first Thursday of every month at Noon in Lemuria’s Dot Com Building across the parking lot from Banner Hall. Feel free to bring your lunch. If you are interested in joining, stop by the bookstore and say hello to Lisa or e-mail her at lisa@lemuriabooks.com. Click here for more details and to see the reading list.
“A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” -William Styron
The Cereus Readers Book Club
(open to the public)
The Cereus Readers Book Club was created in honor of Jackson writer Eudora Welty and her friends who gathered for the annual blooming of the night-blooming cereus flower and called themselves “The Night-Blooming Cereus Club.” In this same spirit of friendship and fellowship, this new book club is launched. The goal of the Cereus Readers is to introduce readers to the writing of Eudora Welty–her short stories, essays, and novels–and then to read books and authors she enjoyed herself or were influenced by her.
All meetings will held at the dot.com building adjacent to Banner Hall from 12-1 p.m. Feel free to bring your lunch. If you are interested in joining, stop by the bookstore and say hello to Lisa or e-mail her at lisa@lemuriabooks.com to be added to the e-mail list. Click here to see the reading list.
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them–with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.” -Eudora Welty
Would you like to start your own book club?
Here are some points to consider:
Would you like members by invitation only or is the book club open to the public?
How big should the reading group be? Usually 6-12 members is a good number, ensuring that the book club does not fall apart if a few do not show up.
How will you choose the books? Will the books be chosen by a different member each time? Or will a leader choose the books?
Will there be a certain theme? Mystery, Culture, Classics, Contemporary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science, History, Literature by Women, or Poetry? Also consider keeping the reading selections diverse with titles that your members might not normally read.
Who will lead the discussion? Will the discussion be open or more guided? Do you want your group to stay on topic or just have good time with food & drink & books.
If you have a practice that works well at your book club, please feel free to share it in the comments section below. Every book club is different!
“A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.” -Henry Miller
All of the book quotes were found in Book Love: A Celebration of Writers, Readers, and The Printed & Bound Book edited by James Charlton and Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press, 2011.
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.” -Edward P. Morgan
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