Meet Austin artists who make and bind journals, blank books, and photo albums by hand, using a variety of media. Learn bookmaking techniques, share ideas, artwork, and skills. austinbookworkers.org

A meetup for members of PaperBack Swap (www.paperbackswap.com) in the Central Texas (Austin and environs) area. We'll meet, get to know each other, swap books, discuss books, life, the universe, and everything, and in general have a grand time!

Looking for other book lovers? A good story is even better when you've got friends to share it with. We all read different books and then report. Some of us come with nothing to report, just to get new reading ideas. Bring a sack lunch. Dessert and tea or water are provided.

Love books and love women? Not necessarily in that order? This club is for lesbians who love to read and want to meet over wine and coffe and food to talk about great reads and anything else that may come up! Books chosen not necessarily limited to lesbian content, and open to suggestion and consensus. A library card is not required to gain admittance, but it might help~ We meet one Sunday morning a month in a public place like Central Market or Russell's Bakery.  Let's take this out for a spin …

I just moved to Round Rock/Austin and left all of my girlfriends and my book club behind in Columbia, Missouri. So, I wanted to start a new book club here. We'll meet once a month or once every six weeks for dinner or potluck and discuss a favorite bestseller, classic, or non-fiction book. This is a great way to have some "girl time" once in a while. I hope this will be a place to meet new friends and share a few laughs. 8/29/10- 12/15/2011-  My husband and I are going to live abroad for sever …

Our group is temporarily closed to new members. We anticipate opening to new members again Fall 2012. Please email if you'd like to be added to our waiting list and contacted when we reopen the group. Thanks for your interest! Never been part of a book club? Neither have I. Let’s learn together! This is the place to read interesting books and get to know other thirty-somethings women in Austin. We’ll choose the books as we go based on recommendations from the group. From historical fiction and b …

Welcome to a wonderful book club dedicated to learning, growing and sharing about the parenting adventure. Hosted by Lisa Smith and Hawthorne Montessori School. Open to all interested parents in the Austin area. We will meet once a month and discuss a different book or article relating to parenting. It's a great way to build your community and support in your effort to be the best parent you can be.

Are you addicted to Mysteries?  If so this is the group for you.  MB&IP is over four years old and has very consistent and dedicated members.  We like to keep the group at 10 members so we can have meaningful discussions. We are currently full, however we will keep your name on the Pending List until an opening occurs. We meet the second Tuesday of each month at Neworld Cafe on Far West Blvd, at 6:30 PM.  Since we do occupy the cafe's tables for a couple of hours, as a courtesy we arrive a littl …

Looking for a fun, laid back book club without the drama of Poisonwood Bible or the heaviness of War & Peace? Like to read for fun and want to expand your horizons of the almost endless Thriller and Mystery books and authors? Lisa Scottoline, James Patterson, Walter Mosley, Ted Bell, have heard the names but never read their books. By submitting to peer pressure maybe you can find a new great author to follow. Let's go with books written within the last 50 years. Discover new books, authors and …

A contemporary fiction book club in Austin that will focus on current and recent authors such as: Haruki Murakami Ian McEwan Julian Barnes Khaled Hosseini Richard Russo... and many more. A monthly meeting with a lively book discussion and socializing with food and drink. Looking for anyone that has a joy of reading and discussing books and that would like to meet others with the same interest.

Are you comfortably out of your teens (perhaps by a decade or more) but still love to read YA? Do you want to meet and discuss YA books with other people like you? Join us for the new combined YA@Heart / Young at Heart book group.  We've merged a local YA book club with the Young Adult for Adults Meetup. We will typically meet to discuss a YA book on the 2nd Wednesday of every month. We look forward to sharing our inner teenagers with you.

Who Am I? I wanted to make this group because I am so busy with kids and work that I am neglecting my favorite hobby: READING! Who Should Join? If you are a mom with young kids who loves to read and wants to make some close friends through the coming years, then this is the place for you!  I narrowed the area to Cedar Park/Leander so that none of us would have too far to drive.   You're welcome to join from other areas if you're willing to come up here for the meetings. What About The Books? T …

We are a book discussion group for women in the Lakeway and Bee Cave area. We meet monthly to discuss the group's selection (always open to suggestion). Our goal is to broaden our literary horizons, share thoughtful conversation, and inspire lasting friendships.

An Austin book club that brings together a group of people who enjoy fantasy and science fiction books, movies, and television. The club engages in a variety of activities, including book discussions, moviie/tv viewing (ie. Game of Thrones), and...well...pub-going, hence the parentheses around 'book' in the club name.

Curious about Misty Curious?  This group is named after my nickname...because as you might guess, I am insatiably CURIOUS. I've worked to create a COMMUNITY that fosters growth, learning, and friendship. What are we up to in 2013? I'm really focused on reading books that will improve my quality of life.  I personally like to read one to two books per month and will break the books into parts for easier reading. I do hope you'll join us! Misty

This group combines some of my favorite things....books, movies, food, drinks and making new friends. Bring your book and movie ideas and don’t forget your appetite. Meeting over a meal is great way to get things started. We’ll vote on one book a month and then discuss it. We'll have dinner and a movie night. We could even add a game night or visit some of the local attractions. Posting is open to all members. If you have a great idea for a meet up, feel free to post them. There are no dues with …

Do you love to read? Are you 20, 30 or 40 something? Do you love to get together and socialize with your girlfriends over a glass of wine and discuss everything you LOVED or HATED about a book? Are you able to attend a book club regularly? Would you enjoy coming up with ideas to make a book club fun and interesting with things like Holiday events and book swaps? Can you find the room for a great group of girlfriends in your life? If the above paragraph describes you, this book club might be what …

Are you interested in stepping up your leadership and personal development skills? We are excited to meet monthly with other leaders/aspiring leaders in the Austin area to discuss books that will not only inspire us, but also give us skills we can utilize to be successful in our lives and our careers. If you have goals you are set on accomplishing, searching for a new challenge or looking for a way to grow personally, you don't want to miss this meetup!

Discussion and integration the principles and techniques of Sarah Susanka’s inspiring book the not so big life (see description below). We will be spending approximately one month on each chapter. "The bigger-is-better idea that triggered the explosion of McMansions in home design has spilled over to give us McLives. In her bestselling Not So Big House series, Sarah Susanka showed us how to change the way we live by adjusting the physical space we inhabit. Now, in The Not So Big Life, Sarah take …

We meet to discuss nonfiction books in a wide variety of genres--science, history, memoir, politics, and beyond! Members can suggest books at any time and we'll vote on three options a month before each meeting. Currently the club meets on the last Wednesday of every month, but if there's a consensus around another time we can make a change. The location varies from meeting to meeting and venue ideas are always welcome! Books we've previously read: June 2013 - "There's a Word for It: The Explos …

This is a group based on Gretchen Rubin's book, "The Happiness Project". The group will focus on establishing meaningful connections amongst members, supporting one another through various life phases, understanding and living happiness, and choosing healthy activities that inspire us to be the best version of ourselves! We will start the official "project" in January of 2013.  It is a year-long process of resolutions and goal attainment.   If you're interested, your commitment level needs to be …

The South Austin Book Club for Women was founded one year ago. We are about reading great books that interest us. In the past year the group has read ten books, many of which have expanded our individual interests and tastes. Meeting others who like to read & discuss books, sharing other books, and forming new connections are just a few of the benefits. The group would like to add new members to increase our ranks and keep the discussions robust. At the same time, we wish to keep the group intim …

This is a book group for anyone interested in reading and discussing books. An Austin search revealed that most book groups in Austin are in the North, so those of us in the South area of the city need a group! We have been active for several months with 3-4 members but would love to have more people involved. Our choice of books is always up for discussion and member choice. We do like to choose books three or four months in advance so those ordering from places like Amazon can get them all in …

The Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin is a monthly get-together to dive into the depths of James Joyce's greatest, weirdest, and most notorious masterpiece. We meet once a month (usually Tuesdays) at the Twin Oaks Library on the corner of Mary and 5th St in South Austin. The process is to take turns reading aloud from the text which allows its musicality to flow forth, then we all discuss our interpretations and the many meanings contained within the selection we've read. We read about 2 …

Let's read the book and then watch the movie! Lots of great movies are based on books: Fried Green Tomatoes, The Shining, Wag the Dog, Trainspotting, Blade Runner, Munich... It's fun to experience both forms of storytelling.

Wanna read cool books? We love cool books. We are readers that love paranormal stories of all kinds. We don't limit ourselves to just vampires; we love all types of paranormal stories. We aren't into gratuitously violent or smutty books, so we tend to read a lot of YA and middle grade series. We enjoy reading for the fun of it, and would love to check out new books with other fun readers. We will have regular book club meetings, and also throw in some fun social events. We look forward to meetin …

We are a start-up group looking for new members to form a young women's book club in south Austin. The full identity of this group will be formed as new members join. We are looking for women in their 20s and 30s who enjoy reading good books of various genres and want to expand their usual reading preferences. We noticed that there are many women's book clubs in Austin, but most of them are central and north of the city. Being women who live south of Ben White, we wanted to start a group that me …

Hi Everyone, First of all, I'll tell you that I used to facilitate and Artist's Way Group thru Meetup here in Austin. I am creating a group based on the correspondence classes of Chicago's Jerry Cleaver's Immediate Writing course of study. Jerry has many accolades and many published writer's singing his praises. My goal is to begin and complete his one year of correspondence classes by utilizing his book "Immediate Fiction", which contains all the lessons needed. I'm looking for other would be w …