Start a book club that reads along with Oprah and millions of other Americans. The benefit to this is that Oprah chooses the book and posts a list of discussion questions on her website, so much of the work is already completed for you.
Queer book clubs are becoming more and more popular as LGBT persons gain acceptance. This book club could be a place for women and women-identified people to read and discuss books about issues related to being queer women in a predominantly heterosexual, male-dominated culture. This group could also be a good starting point for activism.
Once relegated to church basements, spirituality groups are becoming a popular form of fellowship and spiritual teaching. Your club could focus on the women of the Bible, or roles of women from Jewish, Islamic, Taoist, Buddhist or Wiccan traditions.
This club focuses on best sellers. The group as a whole can determine whose best seller list they'd like to use, and set forth additional criteria, like books featuring predominantly strong female characters or books by female authors. Members could take turns suggesting books.
Cookbook clubs are a different kind of club. They involve members each taking one or more recipes from that week's cookbook and trying them out. Members can either bring in these foods for other members to try, or simply report back on their findings. This helps create a tried and true recipe collection. Members can also cook together at club meetings.
These book clubs focus on books from a specific period of time, like books from the Victorian era, for example. Women can compare their roles in current societies to those in ancient societies, or simply just enjoy each other's company and discussion.
New moms often feel isolated from their single friends and long to meet other moms, so new mom book clubs are great for both mental and social stimulation. Books can be about having babies and raising families, but they need not be. The point is to get new moms together and to force moms to take some time to themselves to read.
Arts and crafts book clubs involve women getting together to read and critique craft and project books. Some women try out the projects, either at home or together in the group, as a means of finding ideas for new crafts and learning new craft skills. Groups can keep a blog or host a website of books they recommended and projects they've done, or sell their crafts to benefit charity.
These book clubs are often filled with lively discussion and debate. In these clubs, women read and discuss books on feminism, the economy, politics, war, abortion, and any other hot button current event or topic. These groups need strong ground rules to ensure members debate respectfully.
This book club involves reading books that are about to be or have been released as major motion pictures. Women read and discuss the books, then close out their discussions by watching the movies of the books they've read. Subsequent discussions involve differences between the movie and the book.