3 BEST ONLINE BOOK CLUBS YOU NEED TO KNOW

I don’t know about you but I always envied when I saw a book club in a movie. And have lived in a small town most of my life with a shame as a library and only one bookstore where the books where wrap in plastic and overpriced I dreamt about it for so long.

After I moved to a big city, everybody was so busy to be in a book club and I just let it go. I told myself maybe when I am retired, I can have a book club. Sad, eh?

Five years ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook she wanted to try an online book club, but not one that everyone reads the same book. It was more like an accountability book club. And that was my first book club.

She created a WhatsApp group, and we are still talking about books and life and doctor who, and blogs, Instagram and more books. This opened my eyes to online book clubs.

For years, I heard about the Oprah Book Club and I checked more than once, and I am sorry, it’s not the type of book I like to read. But I understand the importance of it, and I am glad that most Americans read more and more because of Oprah!

I love Instagram, and I follow some celebrities there, one of them is Drew Barrymore. In one of her stories she mentioned a book club from Reese Witherspoon.

1 | REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB

Ok, this is important to mention. For a long time, Reese Witherspoon was just another actress to me, cute one from Cruel Intentions and Legally Blond. I never thought about her for more than a second after a movie ends. Until one day, in 2016, I was watching a crazy movie called Gone Girl, and she was the producer. And I was astonished and started research until I found this video:

So yeah, Reese became a person to me after that. I felt represented and when I saw Drew talking about her Book Club, I follow the link and found out that all books celebrate women’s histories.

Click here to go to her Instagram.

All the past books are in the highlights, and what I like most is they have the authors to talk about the book when it's possible.

2 | OUR SHARED SHELF

This is another feminist book club started by Emma Watson (our eternal Hermione) inside the GoodReads platform. I joined when it was launched, but I am not there anymore.

This is an awesome book club, it’s huge and it’s super active. Actually, it’s insanely active. I don’t have time to be in this book club, unfortunately. However, I would love to have something like this when I was in High School.

Click here to join on GoodReads

3 | PURE WOW BOOK CLUB

This is an Instagram book club, and it’s one of my favourites because it’s so pretty and the book recommendations are great.

To join the conversation just add a photo with a hashtag #purewowbookclub and of course, visit the hashtag to see what people are talking about.

They do US-only (meh) giveaways every Wednesday.

The difference in this is every month they choose a different person to be the host (to choose a book) and this person can be an author or entrepreneurs. Check their highlights on Instagram to take a look at past hosts and books.

Click here to join.

My favourite part about Online book clubs, specially on Instagram is that you can find people who are reading the same book as you right there on the hashtag and you don't need to leave your house, which is plus.