If you're a US-based reader who is 65+, you could receive $50 a year, plus $20 every 3 months for attending in-person Silent Book Club meetups. That's an annual book budget of 4 hardcovers or 10 paperbacks!  

Silent Book Club has teamed up with Grouper to support our members like never before! This collaboration is designed to help eligible readers connect, stay active, and enjoy the support of in-person group activities covered by their health plans.

Grouper is leading a movement that encourages healthy living through meaningful social connections and shared experiences. Grouper helps you access benefits to cover the group activities that provide social connection and keep you healthy. Eligible participants age 65+ with a participating Medicare Advantage or Supplement plan, can now receive payments to support their group activities.

Here’s how it works: Sign up and provide your basic contact information so Grouper can check your eligibility. Once your eligibility is confirmed, Grouper will send you an annual payment of $50. Also, for every three months of activity after that, Grouper will send $20, if you keep them updated on your in-person group activity!

Get ready to enjoy more reading, more friends, and more connection!

Check your eligibility & join now: GrouperGroups.com/SilentBookClub 

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Ready to jump into summer reading? Enter for a chance to win a prize pack featuring a $200 Graduate Hotels gift card, Silent Book Club beach gear, and a stack of five new books from Berkley Romance! Continue reading

There’s no shortage of bookish itineraries you can map out on the internet, from Atlas Obscura’s detailed map of American literature's most epic road trips, to Rick Steves’ Booking it Through Europe tour, to Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries trek across South America.

But we're adding a new one into the mix: The SBC x Graduate Book Tour! 

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Let’s be clear, right up front. The Lost City is ridiculous. Sandra Bullock is a washed out romance novelist who gets kidnapped on her book tour by evil Harry Potter—I mean, Daniel Radcliffe—an eccentric billionaire on a quest to find the buried treasure she describes in her latest book. And the only one who can save her is, wait for it, the wannabe-Fabio cover model from her novels.  Continue reading

App review and interview with Anna Ford, founder of Bookclubs, the app made to inspire meaningful connections through reading and discussion. Continue reading

Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs. Enter here for a chance to win a copy of The Lighthouse and a prize pack inspired by the book!

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Now, instead of having to rely only on writers visiting libraries and bookstores near me, I can sit in my pjs, drink my own (significantly cheaper) wine, and listen to novelists I would not normally get to hear speak.  Continue reading

We're thrilled to launch a new partnership with Graduate Hotels to host Silent Book Club in bookish boutique hotels around the country. Enter to win a reading retreat with a free overnight stay at any Graduate Hotel location and a tote bag filled with books.  Continue reading

Join us online on Wednesday, August 25 at 7pm ET, for a conversation with Catherine Adel West, author of Saving Ruby King, and Vera Kurian, author of Never Saw Me Coming.  Continue reading

Art, love, and redemption converge in a poignant novel critiquing masculinity and the millennial generation

Enter here for a chance to win one of 5 copies

In Sorrow, Tiffanie DeBartolo draws from her experience as a record label owner and music exec to deftly weave the story of a musician who has lost his way.

Joe Harper has backpedalled throughout his life. A once-promising guitar prodigy, he's been living without direction since abandoning his musical dreams. Now into his thirties, having retreated from every opportunity he's had to level up, he has lost his family, his best friend, and his own self-respect.

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