What we’re about
Welcome to the Baltimore Silent Book Club Meetup!
When and Where will it be Held?
Meetings will be held bi-monthly (except during holiday season) at Old Major, a tropical bar and event space in Southwest Baltimore. Please note that this will not a silent environment (bring ear plugs, if you like to read in total silence).
More about Silent Book Club
Silent Book Club is a global community of readers and introverts, with 300 chapters around the world led by local volunteers. SBC members gather in person and online to read together in quiet camaraderie.
Silent Book Club started in 2012 with a couple of friends—Guinevere de la Mare and Laura Gluhanich—reading in companionable silence at their neighborhood bar in San Francisco. They loved books, and reading with friends, but most of their previous attempts at book clubs had fizzled out.
Often with traditional book clubs there's the scramble to finish the assigned book, and the pressure to have something smart to say. Wouldn't it be great to have a book club where you could just enjoy books, friends, and wine—without any homework? At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading.
Guinevere and Laura started Silent Book Club because reading with friends enriches our lives and makes us happy. At Silent Book Club, you will hear about what people are reading (often in their other book clubs) and also have an opportunity to be social. Real, live, breathing-the-same-air social, not hearting-you-on-Instagram social.
Silent Book Club is about community, and everyone is welcome.
