April 2026 Edition-Why building your book community is possible and essential.

If Oprah, Reese Witherspoon and Dua Lipa can do it, so can you.

Books were ‘so out’, but it seems that they are now ‘back in’.

There’s Book Tok (although I do not recommend it for a host of reasons), book clubs (Oprah’s being the most well-known), Influencers sharing their favourite books and then there’s Dua Lipa, who has her own book club https://www.service95.com/book-club  and has just been announced as the curator of the London Literature Festival running October 21 to November 1. Goodreads and Reddit are also platforms where books, reviews and commentary are alive and well. In a way I am surprised that LinkedIn hasn’t picked up on this. Maybe I should suggest a BookedIn ‘sister’? You heard it here first.