Register your book club* with Paper Boat Booksellers and receive a 10% discount on books ordered for members. Please fill out and return the information sheet (in-store only) with your book club name and contact information. When members pick up registered books in the bookstore they will automatically receive the discount.
* to be eligible for a discount, registered book clubs need a minimum of 4 members and must purchase ordered books within 2 weeks of order. Please allow up to 2 weeks for bulk orders/special orders to arrive in store.
Questions about hosting a book club at Paper Boat Booksellers? Please email us at: info@paperboatbooksellers.com to discuss your ideas. Book Clubs wanted/needed: middle-grade, young adult, short stories, non-fiction.
Paper Boat Book Clubs
Come join one of our book clubs here at the shop! Some meet monthly, others every other month and they are all open to anyone who wants to join. Paper Boat Book Clubs meet at the shop on the day and time specified below. Read books, make new friends, share stories and live the best bookish life you can!
We will have a limited supply of books to buy at the store, however we are happy to special order a book club book ahead of time and apply a 10% discount to your purchase. You are in no way required to purchase your book from us-shared books and books from the library work great too!
CONTEMPORARY FICTION BOOK CLUB
This book club is our original and it’s all about Contemporary Fiction-think variety and anything written after the year 2000!
MEETING TIME: January 2026 (date & time TBD)
MEETING PLACE: Paper Boat Booksellers
TITLE TO DISCUSS: TBD
NEXT MEETING:
THE STRANGE & UNUSUAL BOOK CLUB
From Mystery to unusual occurrences, this is the book club for those who don’t like book clubs. We’ll keep it casual, chat about the book, talk about books (and maybe our own mysteries and unusual occurrences) and just have fun. We’ll be sticking to Fiction and meet bi-monthly at the shop. There will be snacks and a drawing for a fun prize after the meeting!
MEETING TIME: February 12th @ 6:00
MEETING PLACE: Paper Boat Booksellers
TITLE TO DISCUSS:
NEXT MEETING: April 2026
CLASSIC SCI-FI BOOK CLUB
If Sci-Fi is your thing, this is the book club for you!
MEETING TIME: Wednesday January 7th @ 6:00
MEETING PLACE: Paper Boat Booksellers
TITLE TO DISCUSS: Man Plus by Frederik Pohl (1976), this was nominated for The Nebula Award
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday February 4th @ 6:00 1957 best selling novel about the world after nuclear war On The Beach by Nevil Shute
MODERN CLASSIC BOOK CLUB
Join us for a brand new Sunday afternoon Book Club titled The Modern Classic Book Club where we’ll be reading and discussing books written after WWII and before the year 2000.
MEETING TIME: Sunday January 4th @ 3:00
MEETING PLACE: Paper Boat Booksellers
TITLE TO DISCUSS: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon (1990), this was recently made into a Leonardo Dicaprio movie "One Battle After Another"
NEXT MEETING: Sunday February 1st @ 3:00 1949 Japanese Classic Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima. He tells the story of a tormented adolescent boy who grapples with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society.
Community Book Clubs
CLASSIC NOVELS (AND MOVIES) BOOK CLUB
We begin each time with a fun trivia quiz--the winner receives a prize !--which raises issues and themes of interest. After one hour or so of free-range discussion, we turn to the next month's book, and collectively propose titles and choose a book to read. If people haven't had a chance to read that month's book, they can come around 4pm and get in on the next month's choice.
Titles read: Since March 2020, we've read: Jane Austen, Emma; Charles Dickens, David Copperfield; Daphne Dumaurier, Jamaica Inn.; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Washington Irving, "Rip van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol; Charlotte Brontë, Villette; Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Nella Larsen, Passing; "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” film, dir. George C. Wolfe, adapted from play by August Wilson; Clarice Lispector, Family Ties; and Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
TITLE TO DISCUSS: Join us in December for a return to Russian literature! Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957); first half. We'll read the second half for our January meeting. Film version: the epic adaptation directed by David Lean, Dr Zhivago (1965) starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie.
MEETING TIME: Sunday December 28th 3:00-4:30 (arrive 2:30 to get drinks and chat)
MEETING PLACE: Outdoor patio behind C & P Coffee House on California Ave SW (not far from Paper Boat Booksellers in West Seattle).
CONTACT: juliawsea@gmail.com to reserve a spot, free and all are welcome!
Paper Boat Booksellers will stock a couple of books in the store, however please order ahead if you would like to get a copy in time to read before the meeting-all registered book clubs receive a 10% discount on their book club book.
MORBIDLY CURIOUS BOOK CLUB
The local chapter of The Morbidly Curious Book Club. An 18+ non-fiction macabre focused book club diving into the darker parts of your library, whether it's true crime cases, morally ambiguous medical practice, spirits & ghosts, or death.
MEETING TIME: December 2025
MEETING PLACE:
TITLE TO DISCUSS: The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett
NEXT MEETING:
CONTACT: https://bookclubs.com/mcbc-west-seattle-wa/join Instagram: @mcbcwestseattle