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 December 4th at 6:00 and we will be reading Land Of Milk And Honey by C Pam Zhang. 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: Wednesday December 4th @ 6:00
Meeting Place: Back of the shop.
Title To Discuss: Land Of Milk And Honey by C Pam Zhang
Next Meeting: February 2025
Classic Sci-Fi + Horror Book Club
If sci-fi and horror are you’re thing, this is the book club for you! Our first meeting will take place on Thursday December 12th @ 6:00 and we’ll be reading The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
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 December 12th @ 6:00
Meeting Place: Back of the shop.
Title To Discuss: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Next Meeting: TBD
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: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860-61)
Date / Time: November 24th 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.