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The LegendFiction Book Club
The book club where you don't have to read the book. 🫢
Every month, members nominate and vote on which epic fiction books to read! Like a game show, the club votes on the best pitch, and we all enjoy a unique readaloud where volunteers role-play the voices! Plus, real authors joins live to read aloud their books. Find your next favorite read.
Come for the fun. Stay for the friends.
Normal book clubs give you a book and a deadline. You either finish it or you feel bad. Most people feel bad...
So we did something different.
Here, you vote on what the club reads next. Everyone shares the book they'd like the group to read. The top 3 highest voted get to step up to the microphone and share why they nominate that back. Like a game show, you making your case for a story you love! The room votes on the book they like best.
The best pitch wins a gift basket (chocolate, cozy things, reader goodies) everything you need for a perfect night in with a great book.
Then for the rest of the month? Read as much or as little as you want. We meet twice a month. One meeting is a Featured Author reading a live chapter (and you role-play the voices), and one meeting is a readaloud from the best book. The goal is to find out if this book worth your time?
Come to make friends. Come to find your next favorite story. Come and sit quietly in the back — that's allowed too. This is the book club built around the people first, and the nerds perform for goodies.
"The book club where you don't have to read the book — but you just might want to."
Dominic de Souza
Author, founder, & host
The Monthly schedule
One Month. Four Weeks. Two Great Books.
Here's exactly what happens every single month.
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Week One
Live Game Show + Featured Author
Members nominate books in a live poll. Everyone votes. The top 3 nominees step up and try to inspire the room to pick their book. The room votes live. Best pitch wins the gift basket.
A featured author joins us to read a chapter aloud together, in character.
Pitches · Live vote · Author · Readaloud
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Week Two
Read at Your Own Pace
Book of the month is decided: now you decide to read as much as you want. A chapter. Half the book. The whole thing.
No check-ins. No quizzes. Have fun.
No pressure · No deadline
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Week Three
Featured Book Week
Everyone joins a social hour with ice breakers. Then the readaloud: only the members who read the book can read the first chapter aloud together, and the volunteers role-play the voices. All are welcome!
Relaxed (spoiler-free) conversation about the book!
live read-through
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Week four
Club Snap Vote
A quick poll drops in the group: Did you finish it? Did you read something else this month? Share fast, honest answers. Results shared with the whole club.
Find your next read among friends!
2 Questions. 30 Seconds.
We Changed Everything
How We Reinvented the Book Club
Every complaint people have about book clubs... we just might have fixed it!
Old Way: You have to finish the book
New Way: Read what you want!
Read as much as you want. Show up anyway. The room is always glad you came.
Old Way: Someone else picks the book
New Way: You decide
You nominate. You pitch. The room votes live. The best book wins.
Old Way: chat is flat & forced
New Way: Role-Play readalouds!
We read aloud together in character. It's a live show, not a panel.
Old Way: Introverts feel awkward
New Way: Everyone is included!
Watching is valid. Listening is enough. Nobody gets called on. Nobody gets left out.
Old Way: Authors are never there
New Way: Guest authors monthly
One featured author joins us live every single month. Real talk. Real fun, together.
Old Way: Every meeting feels the same
New Way: Never-ending fun!
Every night is live, one-of-a-kind, unrepeatable. No two meetings are ever the same.
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A Real Author.
Every Single Month.
Each month, one featured author joins us live. They host a readaloud of a selection from their latest novel, while members role-play the voices. Sometimes they stay for the whole night. Sometimes they just drop in. Either way, you're there when it happens. Authors can also sponsor a month with a free book for everyone who shows up live.
There's a Seat for You!
You Belong Here!
Love being on stage or love hiding in the back? This was made for all!
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The Quiet One
Watch the readaloud. Listen to the pitches. Vote in the polls. You never have to speak.
You're still part of every meetup.
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The Champion
Nominate a book you love. Stand up. Make your case. Convince the room.
Win the giftbasket. Get your name on the blog!
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The Performer
Grab a character role. Read the lines live. Be the villain for ten minutes.
The readaloud always needs brave voices.
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The Finisher
Read the whole thing? You're first pick for the readaloud.
You earned that.
Awarded Every Month
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The Winner's Gift Basket
Win the pitch and we'll send you a real gift basket of your choice: chocolate, a cozy candle, candied fruit collection... Everything you need for the perfect reading night in.
Plus a shoutout on the LegendFiction blog.
The Code
Simple Rules
Easy to remember. Important to keep.
Epic Fiction Only
Fantasy, mythic fiction, big-world adventure. If it's got scope and wonder, it belongs here.
No pitching your own book
Champions argue for someone else's story. Always.
That's what makes the pitch fun!
Nominate means you pitch
Submit a book and you're agreeing to stand up and sell it live.
No backing out.
No Second Chances for Books
Once a book is picked, it's done. We always move forward.
Fresh titles only.
Finishers Get the Mic
Read the whole book? You get first pick to lead the readaloud.
Everyone else is welcome to listen and react.
16 & Older
This Book Club is for readers who are ready to take a great story seriously.
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Ready to join the Book Club of Legends?
We meet every first and third Thursday night for a live, one-of-a-kind meetup, unlike any book club you've ever tried. Come once for free. Stay for $5 a month.
Once we have 25 members on this waitlist, we'll send out invites!
Free to try · $5/mo to belong · Always epic fiction · Always live
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