Book clubs for the Driftless Area
Good books, better company. Right here in the Driftless.
Your club’s season in one place: the books, where you’re meeting, who’s coming, who’s bringing the pie, and what everyone thought.
How the season works
Take turns picking the book and hosting the gathering.
Set the season
Your club admin lays out the season: they skip the months you won’t meet and hand out the rest, one host or two. Can’t make your month? Trade with someone.
Choose your book
Look it up and the cover comes with it. Add up to three links, like an interview or a review, with a note on each so everyone knows what they’re clicking.
Gather & talk it over
Post where you’re meeting and what’s on the menu. Everyone adds what they’re bringing, and leaves a review before or after.
The Driftless
Made for book clubs in the Driftless.
It started with one Dodgeville club keeping its schedule in a spreadsheet. Now any club in the area can keep its books, gatherings and reviews in one place.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
A year at a glance
Your club’s almanac
January
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County AlmanacFebruary
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding SweetgrassMarch
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
Life on the MississippiApril
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
O Pioneers!May
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big WoodsJune
Wisconsin Death Trip
Michael Lesy
Wisconsin Death TripJuly
August
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
The Round HouseSeptember
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
GileadOctober
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
PlainsongNovember
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Lincoln in the BardoDecember
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey
The Snow Child
Find your club.
Pick your club and ask to join. The club admin approves you, and you’ll get an email when you’re in. No club nearby? Start one and be its admin.
