It’s “the bookclub for introverts”! Or a throwback to “Sustained Silent Reading” at school! However you think of it, you’re welcome to join us!

We’ll check in briefly in the Board Room, spread out to read quietly for an hour, then socialize again or keep reading, whatever you’re comfortable with doing!

Join us in the Board Room to start, and bring your own beverage or enjoy a cup of tea courtesy of the Friends. You’re even welcome to bring a cozy blanket or lap pillow, whatever you need to relax and read!

Need a recommendation? We’ve got them! Contact the Reference Desk at 610-828-0441 x103 or email jeanesinfo@mclinc.org

This group will meet on the 2nd Sunday of each month, except in the summer.

Prefer to join a virtual Silent Book Club and participate in your pajamas? Look for us online on the 2nd Tuesday nights, at 8:00 pm

Need a weekday break? Look for us at 2:00 pm on the 4th Tuesday of the month.

What is a Silent Book Club?

“Silent Book Club is a global community of readers and introverts, with 300 chapters around the world led by local volunteers. SBC members gather in person and online to read together in quiet camaraderie.

Silent Book Club started in 2012 with a couple of friends—Guinevere de la Mare and Laura Gluhanich—reading in companionable silence at our neighborhood bar in San Francisco. We loved books, and reading with friends, but most of our previous attempts at book clubs had fizzled out.

Often with traditional book clubs there’s the scramble to finish the assigned book, and the pressure to have something smart to say. Wouldn’t it be great to have a book club where you could just enjoy books, friends, and wine—without any homework? At Silent Book Club, there’s no assigned reading.

We started Silent Book Club because reading with friends enriches our lives and makes us happy. We love hearing about what people are reading (often in their other book clubs) and we think it’s important to put down our phones and be social. Real, live, breathing-the-same-air social, not hearting-you-on-Instagram social.

Silent Book Club is about community.”

https://silentbook.club/