I’m part of two and they’re both different. The first is a remotely run by my job through Teams. There are two main organizers and they select a handful of genres. We vote on genre and once genre is selected we recommend books, and then vote on book. We meet for about an hour every 4-6 weeks and give our overall opinion (thumbs up/thumbs down) and then the organizers ask discussion questions.

My other book club is just a small group of my close friends, we take turns recommending and choosing books. We also meet every 4-6 weeks, usually for brunch. We don’t prep questions or anything, it’s more of a social gathering, sometimes we talk a lot about the book and sometimes we only talk about it for five minutes. My mom is in a similar book club but with a larger group of ladies, and they usually meet for dinner every month. They elect a person to pick a book each time, whereas my ladies group is more democratic - we pick what we want but once in awhile someone will go “hey we haven’t picked my book in awhile” which is helpful when we struggle to decide which we often do.

I’ve also been part of a book club in the past that took turns hosting and did themed meals based around food in the books. That was cool but some of the main hosts moved/had babies/got busy and it fizzled because nobody else was that committed.