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177 Book Club Names: the Cute, the Creative, the Funny, the Dirty, and More

Updated: Sep 06, 2024

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Carrie Thornbrugh

A name is a powerful thing. Names are essential to our identity and can carry deeply personal, social, cultural, and historical connections to the past, present, and one another (shout out to all the baby Jessicas of the 1980s). Names can be wielded as weapons or as terms of endearment, and when a group of people come together under a shared name it provides a sense of belonging and community. So it’s no wonder then that the first and arguably the most fun administrative task when starting a book club is coming up with the book club name!

At Bookclubs, we help a lot of book clubs get organized, and we see a lot of book club names.  To help inspire yours, we gathered a list of the most cool, unique and catchy book club names we’ve come across. Read on, book clubbers, and get creative!

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Funny book club names

Because book club's a blast - so shouldn't your club name be too?

  • Read the Room
  • Reads Well With Others
  • Read It And Weep
  • The Book Was Better
  • Booktroverts
  • Lit Happens
  • Better Read Than Dead
  • LitWits
  • Booked on a Feeling
  • Better Than Therapy / Cheaper Than Therapy
  • That’s What She Read
  • We Like Big Books and We Cannot Lie
  • Baby Got Books

 

Clever book club names

Because nothing's smarter than starting a book club!

  • Shelf Indulgence
  • A Novel Idea
  • Fiction Addiction
  • It's a Hardback Life
  • Words With Friends
  • Treat Your Shelf
  • Page Turners
  • On the Same Page
  • Overbooked
  • Know Thy Shelf
  • Spoiler Alert
  • As The Page Turns

 

Cute book club names

Who's got the best little book club?

  • Bookworms
  • For The Love Of Books
  • Cover to Cover
  • The Book Nook
  • Chapter Chat
  • Would Rather Be Reading
  • Books and Banter
  • Reading Rainbow 🌈
  • Bookalicious
  • Our Shared Shelf
  • Hooked On Books
  • Wanderlust Book Club
  • One More Chapter
  • Books R Us
  • Paper Cuts
  • Ravenous Readers
  • So Many Books, So Little Time
  • Readers Rendezvous

 

Book club names for ladies

For the women and girls out there; when book club night is also ladies' night.

  • Literary Ladies
  • Prose Before Bros
  • Book Babes
  • Book Besties
  • Book Bitches
  • Book Broads
  • Book Queens
  • Bibliophile Babes
  • Babes in Bookland
  • Hot Girls Read
  • Chapter Chicks
  • Sisterhood Of The Traveling Books
  • Little Women
  • Reading Queens
  • Women of the Word
  • Well Read Women
  • The Liter-hotties
  • Novel Women
  • Wine, Women & Wit
  • The Literary Coven / The Book Coven

 

Dirty, spicy and smutty book club names

Because reading is sexy and you know it.  Warning: adults only.

  • What The Smut
  • After Hours Book Club
  • The Spice Girls
  • High-Class Bookers
  • Big Book Energy
  • Textual Relations / Textual Tension / Textual Healing
  • The Litty Titty Committee
  • The Cliterature Club
  • Spread Those Pages
  • Sluts for Mr. Darcy
  • LITeral Trash
  • I Don't Have a Dirty Mind, I Have a Sexy Imagination
  • Talk Wordy to Me
  • Between the Sheets
  • Rated R for Reading
  • Well Read, Badly Behaved
  • Reading is Sexy

 

Wine book club names

For those who might describe themselves as a "wine club with a book problem" (wait, that's actually a great name!)

  • My Wine Club Has a Book Problem
  • Read Between the Wines
  • Wine About Books
  • Reading Winebow
  • Here For The Wine
  • Wines and Spines
  • Wine Down Book Club
  • Prose & Prosecco
  • Books & Bordeaux
  • Mimosas & Metaphors

 

More boozy book club names

For equal opportunity book clubs that read multiple genres and drink multiple kinds of alcohol!

 

Food book club names

Just here for the snacks.

  • A Gouda Book 
  • Brunch and Books
  • Read and Feed
  • Eat, Drink, Read
  • Agree to Dis-a-brie Book Club
  • Yes, There Will Be Charcuterie
  • The Plot Thickens...and So Do We
  • Bookie Dough Book Club
  • Bookies N' Cream
  • The Bookfast Club
  • Matzah Book Soup*

 

Punny book club names

Okay, we'll admit it: most of the club names on this page are pun-tiful.  But here are some of the most pun-tastic:

  • Between the Covers / Between the Pages / Between the Lines
  • Tome Raiders
  • See You in the Punny Pages Book Club
  • No Shelf Control
  • Shelf Care
  • The Read-y or Not Club
  • Easier Read Than Done
  • Bookies
  • All Booked Up / Fully Booked
  • Stuck Between The Covers
  • Left On Read
  • Rock of Pages
  • Read Zeppelin

 

Genre buff and superfan book club names

Harry Potter is a genre, right?

  • Psycho Thrillers
  • The Grim Readers
  • Who Done It Mystery Club
  • Book Club is My Alibi
  • Gentle Readers
  • The Fellowship of the Reads
  • Colleen Hoover's Bitches
  • "Normal People" Reading
  • History Class Do-Over
  • Fam Fiction
  • The Muggle Club
  • Slytherin' It to Win It
  • Potterheads

 

Book club names for moms

Moms DO have time to read books.

  • Moms' Night Out
  • Not Your Mother’s Book Club / Yes, Your Mother's Book Club
  • Reading Mamas
  • Moms' Book Club
  • Chicka Chicka Book Book (IYKYK)

 

Book nerd book club names

Read it. Live it. Own it.

  • Talk Nerdy to Me
  • Nerdy by Nature
  • Nerds of a Feather
  • Early Nerd Catches the Bookworm
  • Can’t Get a Nerd in Edgewise

 

Book-inspired book club names

Try adapting your favorite book (or movie or album) title or quote into a unique book club name!

  • Where The Wild Books Are
  • Fantastic Books and Where to Find Them
  • Pretty Little Readers
  • Dead Poets Society
  • The Tortured Readers Department
  • The Midnight Library
  • Down The Rabbit Hole
  • A Tale of Two Stories
  • It Was the Best of Books, It Was the Worst of Books

 

Literal book club names

These book clubs call it as they see it. Respect.

  • Say Goodbye To Our Boyfriends: They’re Not Dead It’s Football Season
  • A Very Low-Pressure Club For Women Who Like Books And Math
  • Book Club (I’m bad at naming things)
  • Bitches, Booze, and Books (In That Order!)
  • Who Actually Read The Book Club?
  • Ladies Reading About Ladies by Ladies
  • Books. We Read Them.
  • I Just Want To Do Booknerd Stuff With My Friends
  • Stop Scrolling and Read!
  • Insert Book Club Pun Here Book Club

 


Let us help you organize your book club!
 

Picking a great book club name is the first step in launching your book club, let us help you with the rest!  The Bookclubs app has all the book club organizing tools you’ll need to keep your book club running smoothly. Say hello to a better book club experience today and create your free account to get started.

 


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