Pages Circles
Pages Circles is being created to help readers discover book clubs—and to help independent book clubs become more visible, connected, and supported.
Where readers find their people—and book clubs find greater reach.
Why Pages Circles
Across Zambia, readers are already gathering in living rooms, cafés, workplaces, campuses, libraries, online groups, and community spaces. They are choosing books together, exchanging ideas, and keeping reading alive through conversation.
Pages Circles begins by recognising that work.
We are creating a place where readers can discover these communities, and where book clubs can share who they are, what they read, and how interested readers can connect with them.
Every club remains fully independent. Pages exists to amplify the work book clubs are already doing—not to replace, absorb, or control their communities.
For readers
Pages Circles will make it easier to discover reading communities by city, interest, meeting style, and membership availability.
The directory is still being developed. This link opens a preview of what it will become.
For organisers
Introduce your book club, tell us what your community needs, and help Pages build something genuinely useful for club organisers and readers.
What we are building towards
A public listing is only the beginning. Pages Circles is being designed around the practical needs of reading communities.
Create a public club profile that helps interested readers understand your community and request to connect.
Share reading selections, gatherings, events, and stories through Pages and the Saturday Letter.
Let Pages explore ways to source affordable copies, pre-loved titles, and book-club reading bundles.
Discover venues, resources, authors, organisers, and opportunities across the wider reading community.
These services are being developed. The first participating clubs will help Pages decide what should be built first.
Founding Circles
The first book clubs to introduce themselves will help shape what Pages Circles becomes. We are inviting organisers across Zambia to share their communities, their challenges, and the kinds of support that would make running a book club easier.
There is no fee and no exclusivity requirement to become a Founding Circle.
The directory
The Pages Circles directory will eventually allow readers to explore independent book clubs according to where they are, what they enjoy reading, and how they prefer to gather.
Preview — directory in development
Book club profile
Current read
Community details
The first directory profiles will be created with the permission of participating club organisers.
Introduce your book club
You do not need to have everything figured out. Share what you can, and help us understand the community you have already built.
Privacy and trust
Pages will never publicly display a private WhatsApp group link, a member list, a private meeting address, or an organiser's personal contact details without permission.
Club organisers will remain in control of how prospective members contact them and what information appears on any future public profile.
Introducing your club does not transfer ownership, control, or administration of your community to Pages.
If you organise, lead, or belong to a book club, introduce us to your community and help shape the next chapter of Pages Circles.