I am offering to hostess my first ever neighborhood book club :

Jan - Esteemed Vampire Cat by Tyrolin Perry

Feb - Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag

Mar - Catfantastic by Andre Norton

Apr - The Mouse Butcher by Dick King Smith

May - Cattitude by Edie Ramer

Jun - Tooth And Claw by Stephen Moore

My book group chooses books as we go along, and we tend to meet every other month. The person who hosts picks the book, though there's often input on the selection from the group. FWIW, the last four books we read were:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Next up will be Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner

The format for our book group is based on this monthly reading thread: instead of choosing a book to read and discuss, we gather once a month to talk about what books we've read. It's interesting to see how many of us end up reading a book that someone else has mentioned. :) News of the World and Miss Buncle's Book have both ended up being read by almost everyone in the group. So our list is both long as well as a list of past rather than future reading:

• Matrix, Lauren Groff
• Piranesi, Susannah Clarke
• The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
• Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt, Gregory May
• Miss Buncle’s Book & Miss Buncle Married, D.E. Stevenson
• Ghost, Jason Reynolds
• The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander Newfoundland, Jim McFede
• All the Light You Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• News of the World, Paulette Jiles
• A World on the Wing: Global Odyssey of Migrating Birds, Scott Weidensaul
• The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds, Jon Dunn
• Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor
• The Hallowed Hunt, Lois McMaster Bujold
• High Noon : The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, by Glenn Frankel
• Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
• The Newton Letter, by John Banville
• The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
• Seal of the Worm, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Church Mice and the Moon, by Graham Oakley
• The Tempest, Shakespeare
• Measure for Measure, Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
• Buddhism for Dummies
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by JK Rowling
• Faithful, by Stewart O’Nan & Stephen King
• Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old, by Steven Petrow
• Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us On the Moon, by Ryan Walters
• Rock With Wings, Anne Hillerman
• The Four Graces, D.E. Stevenson
• Silverview, John Le Carre
• Abigail Adams, Woody Holton
• The Nation We Knew: How an Extraordinary Geophysical Event Reinvented America-- and the World, Steven Shepard
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bill Bryson
• Watercress, Andrea Wang & Jason Chin
• Lavinia, Ursula K. Leguin
• The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
• All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
• The Warmaster’s Gate (Shadows of the Apt series), Adrian Tchaikovsky
• America in the Twenties: A History, Geoffrey Perret
• Every Critter Has a Tale, Sue Coccia

Thank you, Donnamira. That's a great list. I would enjoy a book group like you describe. I suppose I could start one.

Kathy-t, we do our book chat on Zoom, because we are retired work colleagues who have scattered around, with folks on both east and west coasts. It began with 3 of us and grew to 8, which we think is the maximum for a video format - the round-robin of everyone talking about at least one book (usually more!) can take 90 minutes. I just ask everyone to give title & author, why they chose to read it, and what they liked/disliked about the book, maybe add a sentence or quote that caught their fancy. We've been doing it now for about 6 months - so still in the testing phase. :) Just as we do here in RP, our December chat was 'best of the year.' I've learned a lot from RP!