How Book Clubs Work
Pick a club, reserve your seat, read at your own pace, and come ready to talk. You do not need to be a literary scholar. Enthusiastic opinions are more than enough.
Choose Your Club
Browse upcoming meetings and find a club that fits your interests, schedule, or current reading obsession.
Reserve Your Seat
Book ahead whenever possible. Reservations help us plan seating, room size, and attendance for each discussion.
Read & Show Up
Grab the book, read what you can, and join the conversation. Finished the whole thing? Great. Didn't quite make it? You can still come.
Book Club Perk
Your Ticket Goes Toward the Book
For participating Secret Lantern book clubs, your $5 reservation can be applied toward the purchase of that month's featured book from The Secret Lantern.
Book Clubs
Find your next great read and the people who want to talk about it with you.
Our book clubs explore horror, romance, fantasy, historical fiction, Latine literature, crime, and plenty of wonderfully unpredictable territory, with a welcoming table for curious readers and enthusiastic opinions.
Our Book Clubs
Horror, romance, fantasy, crime, themed recommendations, giant fantasy rereads, and gloriously nerdy rabbit holes. Pick your poison. Or pick several.
Spicy Romance Book Club
Romance with plenty of heat, chemistry, dramatic decisions, and absolutely no judgment about how spicy the TBR gets.
Recommended Reads Book Club
Every meeting brings a new theme, with members sharing and recommending books that fit the topic.
ACOTAR After Hours Reread
Revisit the ACOTAR series together, with conversation, theories, favorite moments, and a themed craft inspired by each book.
Cereal Killers Book Club
Dark reads exploring serial killers, crime, obsession, investigations, and the people caught in the aftermath.
Cozy Cauldron Book Club
Cozy fantasy, magical worlds, found family, and comforting reads with a little sparkle around the edges.
Dark Chapters Book Club
Horror across the spectrum, from gothic and supernatural to psychological, folk, creature features, and deeply unsettling territory.
Big Old Nerd Book Club
Sci-fi for readers who like big ideas, strange worlds, space operas, cyberpunk, classics, new releases, and the occasional fantasy detour.
Between Meetings
Keep the Conversation Going
Join The Secret Lantern Discord to talk current reads, share reactions, swap recommendations, and keep the discussion going between book club meetings.
Upcoming Book Clubs
See what we’re reading next, find a meeting that works for you, and reserve your seat before the table fills up.