Why Men Don’t Join Book Clubs

Men love to read books, but men don’t love to join book clubs. In a PBS article in 2018, Author Nick Arvin suggested that to encourage more men to join book clubs, the first rule is, “don’t call it a book club.” It was a curious statement to me, because — as I run a book club myself — it is obvious by the membership profile that men are resistant to such activities. According, to the Pew Research Center, 11% of Americans were active in “literary, discussion or study groups such as book clubs” and women were more than twice as likely to take part. And that seems to be the case more broadly. My book club…