About The Denver Book Club Meetup Group

DENVER BOOK CLUB MEETUP GROUP

We are a diverse collection of people from around the Denver area who share a common love of good books. Our tastes are as varied as our lives. You are welcome to join our growing community of book lovers.

All Members - Please Read: Mailing List and Message Board Agreements

How Our Book Selections are Made

The Denver Book Club alternates book selections from month to month between Fiction and Non-fiction. Books are nominated by the book club members by e-mailing the group with the title and author (use the Messages feature from the menu to the left). One of the organizers will then add the nomination to the Polls section. For fairness, members are limited to nominating one book per month.

At any given time, we have two polls open (fiction and non-fiction). Members then cast a vote for one of the nominated books. Nominations can be sent at any time and will be added to the appropriate poll. A poll is closed on the 15th of the month prior to the month we will discuss the book. That gives everyone 5-6 weeks to read the upcoming book. An e-mail is sent out announcing the selected book. The two "runner up" books are carried over to the next poll.

Nominations are wide open. We decided as a group (at the beginning of the club) to place no limits on nominated books other than that they must be available in libraries and used bookstores. (We also agreed on no pornography, although Henry Miller's classic, Tropic of Cancer, certainly did "push the envelope.") Comments about nominations or selections may be posted on the Message Board (not the mailing list, which is reserved for club announcements and logistics).

We rely on democratic processes. We trust that any books our members do not want to read will not get enough votes to be selected. Members who do not like a selected book are encouraged to attend our monthly meeting and criticize the work, which makes our dialog far more lively and usually more rewarding. Another option is to nominate a different or opposing book, and our group votes will decide the matter. The tastes of the membership, which has a natural ebb and flow, determines our selections.

We're all about enjoying fun and interesting conversations together, opening our minds to the views of others, juggling our mental blocks, and above all else -- making new friends.

Authors and Publicists, CLICK HERE before contacting the club organizers.

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Links to Amazon.com web pages for current nominations:
Fiction Nominations
Non-fiction Nominations


These are the books we have selected since the Denver Book Club began:

2008
July - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace by Greg Mortenson and David Relin
June - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
May - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
April - Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
March - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
February - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
January - Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

2007
November - Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
October - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
September - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
August - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell
July - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
June - The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis
May - House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
April - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
March - The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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