Book Club Day UK: Stories you love, people to meet, a day for book clubs.
Join us in celebrating the power of shared reading on Book Club Day UK on 11 September 2025! The day is for all types of groups – adults, young people and children – so make sure you inspire everyone to join in.
What is Book Club Day UK?
Book Club Day UK is a moment to share the joy of being part of a book club and to encourage new clubs to form so that even more people will discover how book clubs build stronger, more connected communities. It’s your chance to promote your club, discover fresh resources from The Reading Agency, and welcome new readers into your circle.
How to join in
During the weeks leading up to Book Club Day UK and on the day, we would love for you to help us celebrate communal reading and book clubs to create a nation of readers. Ahead of the celebration we will be highlighting the importance of social cohesion and the positive effects of being in a book club (as demonstrated through our own research findings).
One focus of Book Club Day UK is to encourage those who may not already be part of a book club to join one in September to see if they’d like to join on a more regular basis or to support readers with starting their own club. Can your book club members each invite someone new to join your September meeting?
The aims of Book Club Day UK are to:
• Provide libraries and book club leaders with the opportunity to promote your book clubs and to diversify their September meet up by inviting new readers to join (if you would like to do this)
• Strengthen the partnership between libraries and book clubs by creating space to highlight the services available to clubs (reserving book club sets to borrow, lending via apps, space you have available for clubs to use, newsletters you run which they can subscribe to etc.)
• Encourage readers to start their own book club if they can’t find one that is a ‘perfect’ fit
• Demonstrate how our Book Club Hub and the resources on the platform can help tackle life’s big challenges
• Recommend books you have in stock to existing library users and book club members
• Promote how book clubs are away of connecting people
Plus! Become a Book Club Hub Rep
The Book Club Hub team will be creating a group of Book Club Hub Reps of leaders of book clubs across the UK. The Book Club Hub Reps will have the chance to:
• Join a WhatsApp Broadcast Group where we will be sharing opportunities from The Reading Agency and publishers for your book clubs
• Join a Book Club Hub Reps meeting in January 2026 where we will be sharing information about our plans for the Book Club Hub and will also give you the opportunity for you to have your say and help shape the offer
• Join a database of information about book clubs who connect with the website so that we can get in touch with you directly for exclusive offers from publishers (your contact information will never be shared with publishers for this, without your permission)
Sign up to be a Book Club Hub Rep here.
Ways you can celebrate Book Club Day UK
Use The Reading Agency’s social media assets in our Communications Toolkit to:
• Share the benefits of being in a book club
• Celebrate your book club/s and what makes them special
• Highlight your book recommendations for clubs to try
• Advertise book clubs to invite new members to join
• Ask each of your book club members to bring a friend with to your September meeting
• Host an event for local book clubs to meet each other and share recommendations
• Support a local organisation or company to set up their own book clubs supported by the library to access books
Get involved
Download our free Communications Toolkit
Share your thoughts with us on Facebook, X and Instagram using #BookClubDayUK.
Keep up with all the latest news by joining our Book Club Hub Bulletin.
