Book clubs in Cambridge

Below you'll find every active listing we have for book clubs and readers in Cambridge

Added 4 days ago

Free online International book club for female readers

We choose and read a book every 5/6 weeks and then meet on Zoom to talk about. It’s a cozy group with women all ages from all over the world.

Added 4 days ago

IN

Hi everyone! I’m quite new to reading, but I’ve recently developed a real interest in getting into books. I’m hoping to read more regularly and connect with people who enjoy discussing what they’ve read. Looking forward to sharing this journey with you all.

Added 29 days ago

English learners online book club

I have just created a free, online book club for English Learners. We will be reading a book every 4-6 weeks and discuss it in a very relaxed way. I am an English teacher with more than 20 years of experience and I will be happy to guide the sessions and help learners develop their speaking skills.

Reading Round (Cambridge), from the Royal Literary Fund

Reading Round is a free community reading group run by the Royal Literary Fund in a number of locations around the UK. The current group in central Cambridge, led by poet Alex Wong, has a few spaces still remaining and is hoping for new members to join its weekly meetings. No reading in advance is required. Texts (one in prose and one in verse each week) are read aloud to the group by the group leader, followed by discussion. Photocopies are provided. Mondays, 4pm to 5.30pm, at Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge, CB2 3EL (opposite John Lewis). Everyone welcome, but numbers are strictly limited. To enquire and reserve your FREE space, email: alex.wong@rlfeducation.org.uk

Alex Wong

Writer and former academic, now (2025-26) running a community reading group called 'Reading Round' in Cambridge, on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund. Last few spaces still remaining. Mondays, 4pm to 5.30pm, at Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge, CB2 3EL (opposite John Lewis). Everyone welcome, but numbers are strictly limited. To enquire and reserve your FREE space, email: alex.wong@rlfeducation.org.uk

Robin

Retired. Enjoy fiction and talking about books with others

Walter

I'm 63, and recently moved to the UK. I like a variety of books in the non-fiction world, although within fiction I tend to read mainly crime, espionage or historical fiction I'd love to make contact with others to share book conversations.

Walter recommends:

Educated

by Tara Westover | Buy this book

The gradual escape by way of education, of a young woman, from the horror of life as a family under the spell of an extremist, despotic father, in the religious world of the Mormons.

A Perfect Spy

by John le Carre | Buy this book

It's not especially plot-driven in that it tells the story of a man's journey from a childhood entangled with a fantastical con-man of a father through to a distinguished career as a British intelligence officer, interwoven with his other life, passing information to Czechislovakia.

Verity

Retired director now artist.

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Janhavi

Hi everyone, I enjoy reading high fantasy fiction, classics, Young adult and mythology. I'm also really interested in reading books about philosophy.

Phil Avery

I am a recently published author with two contemporary fiction novels. 'Windmills of my mind' and 'Faranah Cowboy'. I would like to meet with similar like minded people.

Teressa

Looking to join or host a book club in Cambridge (Cherry Hinton Road). I love fantasy, non-fiction, contemporary, classic fiction, all sorts! Would love to meet once a month to every two weeks.

Teressa recommends:

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen | Buy this book

Broke open my concept of what fiction could do. Absolutely amazing work.

Kesh

Hello

JemmaMcMe93

Founder of Words, Wine & Wit Book Club, I'm an English teacher in a SEN school who loves a god book, great wine and witty conversation.

Words, Wine and Wit Book Club

Founded in 2017, we are an inclusive, intersectional feminist book club celebrating literature and diverse voices. Based in Cambridge, with chapters in Hertfordshire/Essex and Suffolk, we discuss a new book each month via our active Discord channels and Facebook community. We support local bookstores, charity shops, and libraries, and welcome book lovers to share their reads and literary insights. Interested in starting a new chapter? Contact Jemma! Follow us @wordswineandwitbookclub 📚✨

Lisa Jones Eversden

I’m 58, love reading anything but biographies, and I’m looking to join a group for the social aspect and suggestions

Lisa Jones Eversden recommends:

McCarthy’s Bar

by McCarthy | Buy this book

I first read this book about 20odd years ago, and it made me laugh out loud

Hayley

I enjoy romance/psychological thrillers and would love to join a book club so that I can stop boring my partner with descriptions of the books I'm reading!

Maddy Reads Romance

Hello! I’m 34 and just moved to Cambridge for work from Washington DC. I love reading, mainly romance and thrillers/ mystery. Would love to connect with people out here with similar interests to start up a book club or something similar 😊

Ionela

Julia

I adore reading and meeting new people.

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