With a New Year comes a new and improved you that promises to read more books than you did last year. Why not join one of Toronto’s book clubs and turn reading into a fun, social activity?
Here are a list of currently active book clubs that are accepting new members:
The Great Escape Book Store’s Book & Film Club
- Location: 957 Kingston Road
The Great Escape Book Store, located at the Kingston Road United Church, is an east end gem that sells new and used books. One a year, the store hosts a Book & Film meeting where participants get together to discuss a book “semi-academically” and then watch the film based on the same book the following week at The Fox Theatre. The 2026 pick is Women Talking by Miriam Toews.
Actual Book Club
- Location: 401 Richmond St W Suite 409
Actual Book Club is a self-described “multi-title book club based in Toronto” that hosts monthly meetings in Downtown Toronto. Book lovers aren’t pressured to all collectively read one title, hence, the “multi-title” moniker. Its next get together is on Feb. 26, 2026.
Silent Book Club
- Location: Location varies. The next meetup will be at 1237 Queen St W
Silent Book Club is a collective that has chapters in over 60 countries. It’s the perfect book club for people who are tired of reading assigned books they may not even be interested in. Participants bring their own book in whatever medium they prefer, whether that’s an audiobook, a paperback or a Kindle, and read silently with likeminded people at a set location. It’s a book club without the homework.
Hopeless Romantic Book Club
- Location: 1080 Queen St W
Are you someone who has read all of Emily Henry and Rachel Reid’s books? Then Hopeless Romantic Books’ Book Club is for sure the place for you. Read smut in an environment where loving romance is the entire personality.” The book club has four romance book clubs across different sub-genres, so there’s something for every romance lover.
Type Books Book Club
- Location: 883 Queen St W
Type Books on Queen hosts a bi-monthly book club that’s free to attend. Type Books also hosts a book-to-film adaptation screening club in partnership with Paradise Books on Bloor. The club’s next meeting will discuss The Door by Magda Szabó at their Queen Street West location on Feb. 22.
