As seen in the Courier Mail, Brisbane News and map magazine, Avid Reader is renowned for its feisty and entertaining bookclubs. A great opportunity to meet new people and broaden your reading tastes, our bookclubs are inviting, friendly and work on open memberships. (You won't find us breathing down your necks to come -- come when it suits you!)

Here at Avid Reader, we run three different bookclubs.

Adaptation Bookclub a bookclub particularly for film lovers. We look at a book and it's film adaptation discuss the changes that have occurred in the process. The group meets the last Monday of each month at 7:00pm in-store @ Avid.

Fiona's Open Bookclub meets on the first Wednesday of each month (7:00 pm). It's our most popular bookclub, and is open to readers of all ages and persuasions. Fiona chooses a book each month. Books we read last year include The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Other Side of You by Sally Vickers, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver.

Fiona's Daylight Bookclub meets on the first Thursday of each month (9.30 am). We usually read the same books as the open bookclub. It's perfect for night workers, early sleepers, parents who've just dropped their kids off at school, and those who missed the open bookclub. Fiona chooses a book each month. Books we read last year include The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Other Side of You by Sally Vickers, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver.

It's a Bloody Crime Bookclub Meets the first Saturday of the Month, 2.00pm on Avid Reader's back deck.

Science Fiction Sundays Bookclub is run by Trent and Paul and happen on Sunday afternoons at 5:00 p.m.

The Young and the Restless Bookclub is run by Benjamin. It meets on the last Wednesday of every month (6.30pm). Set up for readers aged between 18 and 35, we basically gather around the store drinking cheap wine. Discussion about titles usually start off intelligently enough, but soon devolves into drunken ramblings.

Sound like your kind of thing ?