by Regina Kenney

Book Club names, much like Improv Troupes, tend to be riddled with puns, inside jokes, obscure references and perhaps a splash of that ‘internal groan when you hear it’ eyeball roll.

But, hey, you need to a name for that something you do once a month when you sit in a circle and talk Lit.

Here are suggestions for Book Club names for those who have the people and the books and now just need something to title the Facebook group page.

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Boozy-Book Club Names
For those clubs that like to drink while they discuss great books. 

Wine About Books

The Vine & Verse

The Drink Tank

Library Libations

Reading Lines With Wine

Boozin’ Books

Crack Open Beers & Books

Plots & Shots

Rub-A-Dub-Book-Club
‘Rub-A-Dub’ is Cockney slang for ‘Pub’

Drinkin’ & Thinkin’

Book Pub

Better Book-It To the Pub

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Famous Literature Clubs from History
For the more pretentious clubs who believe imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. 

The Bloomsbury Group
Group included Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes – name comes from Bloomsbury, London where the intellectuals either lived or worked near.

The Socrates School
Group of thinkers around 400BC that included Socrates and Plato.

The Dymock Poets
Group included Robert Frost and Rupert Brooke who lived in the English village of Dymock.

The Algonquin Roundtable
Group included Harpo Marx, George Kaufman, and Dorothy Parker – met at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City between 1919 – 1929.

The Inklings
Group included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

Stratford-on-Odeon
Group included Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Named after the famous bookshop in Paris, Shakespeare, and Company.

The Factory
Andy Warhol’s studio space – meeting place of artists, writers and musicians including  Truman Capote, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, and Salvador Dali.

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Goofy Names

Paragiraffs (stop, I can hear your groan from here.)

Sentences & Sensibility 

My Eyes Hurt

Break the Spine

I Got the Need, the Need to Read

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General Names

Rage about the Page

Papercuts Anonymous

I Like Big Books

Where My Prose At?

Just One More Chapter… 

Culp with Pulp

Serial Book Readers

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Suggestions for other Book Club names? Put in the comments below…