You can now run or join a book club on StoryGraph! 🎉

The Book Clubs section is accessible via the new-and-improved Community page. Head over there to create a new club and, later, see which clubs you're part of!

When creating a club, you can add a logo, create a Welcome/About screen, and set up a Code of Conduct.

Once a club is created, you can invite members in-app or via sharing the link. Perhaps you'll set up an "Introduce yourself" or "Book nominations" thread in your club's built-in forum!

Then it'll be time to set up meetings! (You can load in past ones too!) For each meeting, you may already have a book and date in mind, or you can set up polls and let members contribute to the decisions.

You don't have to run everything by yourself! Promote any member to a meeting host, granting them full admin privileges over the meeting's organisation. And if you want to foster pre-meeting discussion, you can make use of a buddy read or readalong add-on.

If there's a clear winner of the poll, everyone will be notified once the poll is over. Otherwise, meeting hosts will receive a notification to let them know a poll was inconclusive and they have a final decision to make!

For members who have clicked "Attending" on a meeting's page, their progress against the meet's pick is shown and they'll also get in-app reminders as the meeting time gets closer.

Meeting hosts can set up the agenda in advance, including drawing from a book's question bank to help enhance the discussion. (The Question Bank feature is also new so it may take some time for it to start being helpful! We hope everyone will contribute to it and help it to grow into a valuable resource for all book clubs!)

After you've set up just one meeting, we start to suggest future book club picks tailored to group's tastes, and these machine learning-powered recommendations will keep getting better and better.

And over time, see your club's highest rated reads on the Leaderboard.

We hope this new feature really enhances your book club!

(In future iterations of this feature, we'll have a way to discover new book clubs to join in-app!)