What's in the kit

Eight pages, each one designed to be printed and actually written on. Nothing here is filler.

Page 1

Cover

The kit's title page, with a QR back to this page so any club member can grab their own copy.

Page 2

The host checklist

Two columns — before the first meeting, and before every meeting. Twenty specific things, all with checkboxes.

Page 3

The four-part discussion frame

OPEN, DIG, ARGUE, CLOSE — twenty ready questions that need no plot summary to answer.

Page 4

Questions by genre

Five each for fantasy & romantasy, romance, mystery & thriller, and literary fiction. Plus three rescue questions.

Page 5

The reading calendar

A fill-in four-week pacing grid, and the rule for setting a weekly page target people can actually hit.

Page 6

Meeting one-pager

Print one per meeting. Book, date, host, snack, who picks next, the four beats, and a 1–10 group rating strip.

Page 7

The book pick ballot

Nomination slips and a voting grid, so picking the next book takes four minutes instead of forty.

Page 8

Member reading tracker

A twelve-book log — title, author, date finished, rating, and the one line you'd say about it.

The frame that carries the meeting

Ninety minutes, four beats, in this order. It works whether the group loved the book, hated it, or half of them didn't finish it.

OPEN

10–15 min

Warm-up, no wrong answers. Get every voice in the room before anyone has to be clever.

DIG

25–30 min

Character and craft. Move from reaction to evidence — ask people to point at the page.

ARGUE

20–25 min

The one question people disagree on. You want a real split, not a fight.

CLOSE

10 min

Rate it, pick the next book, confirm the next date out loud before anyone stands up.

A look inside

Real pages from the PDF — not mockups.

Page 2 of the Book Club Kit: the host checklist, two columns of printable checkboxes

The host checklistTwenty things, two columns, all with boxes to tick.

Page 3 of the Book Club Kit: the four-part discussion frame with twenty questions

The discussion frameOPEN, DIG, ARGUE, CLOSE — with the timings on the page.

Page 5 of the Book Club Kit: a fill-in four-week reading calendar grid

The reading calendarFill it in once, photograph it, drop it in the group chat.

Print · Fill in · Host

1

Print at home

Any printer, plain paper. US Letter at 100% — "Actual Size". Print page 6 and page 8 a few times over.

2

Fill in the calendar

Pages ÷ weeks, rounded up to a chapter break. Photograph it and put it in the group chat.

3

Run the four beats

Open, dig, argue, close. End on time with the next date already agreed — that's the part that makes people come back.

While you're printing

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The free bookmark set

Four original printable bookmarks — the Signature Set — plus a one-page print guide. Same deal as this kit: drop your email, print it tonight.

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52 printable bookmark designs

Thirteen themed sets — thriller, cozy mystery, fantasy, dark academia and more. One for every book your club reads this year, delivered to your inbox in minutes.

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Or design your own in the bookmark library — every design is print-ready for US Letter and A4.

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