Register your bookclub* with Paper Boat Booksellers and receive a 10% discount on books ordered for members. Please fill out and return the information sheet (in-store only) with your bookclub name and contact information. When members pick up registered books in the bookstore they will automatically receive the discount.
* to be eligible for a discount, registered bookclubs need a minimum of 4 members and must purchase ordered books within 2 weeks of order. Please allow up to 2 weeks for bulk orders/special orders to arrive in store.
Questions about starting/hosting a book club at Paper Boat Booksellers? Please email us at: info@paperboatbooksellers.com to discuss your ideas. Bookclubs wanted/needed: middle-grade, young adult, sci-fi/fantasy.
Paper Boat Book Club
Come join the Paper Boat Book Club! Our next meeting will take place May 29th at 6:00 and we will be reading Thirty Names Of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar. Book Club meets at the shop and we’ll have plenty of snacks and much to talk about!
We will have a limited supply of books to buy at the store, however we are happy to special order a book club book ahead of time and apply a 10% discount to your purchase. You are in no way required to purchase your book from us-shared books and books from the library work great too!
Meeting Time: Thursday May 29th @ 6:00
Meeting Place: Paper Boat Booksellers-our new location in the Alaska Junction!
Title To Discuss: Thirty Names Of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar.
Next Meeting: July 2025
The Classic SF Book Club
If sci-fi is you’re thing, this is the book club for you! Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday March 5th @6:30 and we’ll be reading Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard.
We will have a limited supply of books to buy at the store, however we are happy to special order a book club book ahead of time and apply a 10% discount to your purchase. You are in no way required to purchase your book from us-shared books and books from the library work great too!
Meeting Time: Wednesday May 7th @6:00
Meeting Place: Paper Boat Booksellers
Title To Discuss: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick (1977).
"Cops and criminals have always been interdependent, but no novel has explored that perverse symbiosis more powerfully than A Scanner Darkly. Philip K Dick's industrial grade stress test of identity may be the most unnerving drug novel ever written."
Next Meeting: June 4th Contact (1985) by Carl Sagan.
"In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who or what is out there? Carl Sagan's "Contact" will amaze and delight you, and make you think. it will also make you proud and happy to be alive."
Classic Novels (and movies) Book Club
We begin each time with a fun trivia quiz--the winner receives a prize !--which raises issues and themes of interest. After one hour or so of free-range discussion, we turn to the next month's book, and collectively propose titles and choose a book to read. If people haven't had a chance to read that month's book, they can come around 4pm and get in on the next month's choice.
Titles read: Since March 2020, we've read: Jane Austen, Emma; Charles Dickens, David Copperfield; Daphne Dumaurier, Jamaica Inn.; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Washington Irving, "Rip van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol; Charlotte Brontë, Villette; Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Nella Larsen, Passing; "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” film, dir. George C. Wolfe, adapted from play by August Wilson; Clarice Lispector, Family Ties; and Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
Title to discuss: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)
Date / Time: April 27th 3:00-4:30 (arrive 2:30 to get drinks and chat)
Place: Outdoor patio behind C & P Coffee House on California Ave SW (not far from Paper Boat Booksellers in West Seattle).
Contact: juliawsea@gmail.com to reserve a spot, free and all are welcome!
Thanks for reading!
Paper Boat Booksellers will stock a couple of books in the store, however please order ahead if you would like to get a copy in time to read before the meeting-all registered book clubs receive a 10% discount on their book club book.