A decade of community, connection, and quiet moments shared — and a few gatherings so big, they could fill an entire park or beach. These are the chapters that have drawn the largest crowds and built the biggest followings around the world.

Over the past ten years, Silent Book Club has grown from a small idea among friends to a global movement with more than 2,000 chapters in 60+ countries. While every group carries its own rhythm, these ten chapters have shown just how far a simple act — reading together in silence — can reach.

From Georgia, USA to Indonesia to South Africa, these are the readers turning cities into libraries and strangers into friends.

Over the past ten years, Silent Book Club has grown from a small idea among friends to a global movement spanning more than 2,000 chapters in over 60 countries around the world. While each chapter carries its own rhythm and personality, a few have quietly stood the test of time — reading, connecting, and growing together for nearly a decade.

We officially kicked off Silent Book Club’s 10th Anniversary Readathon live on the TODAY Show from Rockefeller Plaza! 

Joining forces with Jenna Bush Hager, the founder of the Read with Jenna Book Club, SBC cofounders Laura and Guinevere hosted a special Silent Book Club NYC meetup at the Ned NoMad with local organizers, librarians, and booksellers from New York City, Brooklyn, Monmouth County, Wantagh, Bergen County, Glen Cove, Cherry Hill, Hauppauge, Beacon, Northport, Riverhead, Port Jeff, Spring Lake, and more. Everyone brought their books for a cozy read with the TODAY Show host (and new publisher!) earlier this week.

On Thursday, we brought our books and arrived bright and early (7am!) to pull up an Adirondack chair outside the TODAY Show studios at Rockefeller Center. It was a blustery 40 degrees out, the first cold day of fall, but that didn't stop our dedicated readers from powering through their pages in the company of Jenna and co-hosts Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly, and a crowd of onlookers. It was the best birthday present we could imagine for our 10th, and we're so grateful to the TODAY Show team for putting together a beautiful tribute to our community.

We hope it inspired many new readers to find a local meetup this weekend during our Global Readathon! More than 200 local chapters in 28 countries are participating, and you can find a directory of locations on our website.

Plus, if you're looking for reading materials, you can try out a free 30-day subscription to our partner Everand for ebooks and audiobooks! We've even got VIP book recommendations from some of SBC members' favorite authors to help you choose what to read. 

Happy reading!

For our milestone anniversary, we asked 10 beloved authors whose work has inspired our readers to share one book published in the past 10 years that they’ve loved — a story they can’t stop recommending, revisiting, or thinking about.  

It’s not a birthday without presents... Announcing Silent Book Club's 10th Anniversary Giveaway! To say thank you for ten years of reading with friends, we’ve teamed up with some of OUR friends to create a prize package any reader would dream of.

Hundreds of chapters are hosting Silent Book Club events the second weekend of October as part of our global Silent Book Club Readathon, presented by Everand.

As we celebrate our 10th Anniversary this October, we are also facing a critical challenge to the core founding principle of Silent Book Club: the freedom to choose what we read. Silent Book Club is proud to partner with Libro.fm and 450 local bookstores and libraries to host a series of Banned Books Week Read-Ins October 5, 6, and 7.

SBC Cape Town organizer Shawn Buck presented a love letter to Silent Book Club to a crowd of 300 attendees at PechaKucha. Watch him share how SBC works, stories from his chapter, and the lessons he's learned in 20 slides that rotate every 20 seconds. 

Silent Book Club is turning ten! We’re celebrating a decade of chapters, conversations, and cozy reads with a new series of Top Ten lists — from the books you love most to the libraries and bookstores that bring us together.

For our 10 year anniversary celebration, we wanted to simply gather a great reader-related playlist for anytime. It pulls from some of our existing lists but adds more and mixes it up across genres.