book club

a company or other organization that sells books to its subscribers, often at a discount and usually through the mail.

a club organized for the discussion and reviewing of books.

Also called, especially British, book society.

Origin of book club

First recorded in 1785–95

She came to the last person she had met—the old lady who had come to the book-club meeting with a cane—Mrs. Moyer.

The Mystery of the Secret Band |Edith Lavell
Not she; she is too much engaged with her book-club, and her soires, and her societies of every sort and kind.'

The Heir of Redclyffe |Charlotte M. Yonge
Such a book-club, as the “Grolier,” of New York, is a fortunate avenue of escape from these evils.

In the Track of the Bookworm |Irving Browne
She turned at the door to bid Barbara say, if any one called, that she was at the book-club meeting.

A Pair of Patient Lovers |William Dean Howells

book club

a club that sells books at low prices to members, usually by mail order, esp on condition that they buy a minimum number