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Happy Holidays!

Dear Reader, Thank you for making 2018 an exciting year filled with new books and cookbooks, menus, recipes, and tales of book club meetings! In partnership with publishers, we gave away over 2,000 books -- fiction, nonfiction, YA and childrens' titles, and cookbooks -- to lucky readers. Hundreds of authors shared recipes and book club food pairings with our readers, along with comments about food in their novels and memoirs. Food and book bloggers joined us to create recipes inspired by Jenna Blum's novel, The Lost Family  for a virtual dinner party,  The Lost Family Supper Club. GalleyMatch — offering book clubs the chance to read and discuss forthcoming titles — launched this summer. Hundreds of book clubs and cookbook clubs have registered and 90 book groups are currently reading books (and cookbooks) that will be released in 2019. We continue to expand our library of Book Blends spices . (See our new blend below!) Please note we have extended the ordering deadline to Sunday, December 16th. There is still time to enter two giveaways in 2018!

Homemade for the Holidays simplifies holiday planning with over 250 recipes that help you meet specific dietary needs, including gluten- and dairy-free, vegan, and more. And for the younger set, Tough Cookie: A Christmas Story by Edward Hemingway is a delightful tale of a cookie that discovers he does NOT taste delicious. To end the year: how do book clubs celebrate the holidays? Several book groups contributed their holiday traditions, and we're happy to share them below.

It's gratifying to communicate with book club members throughout the year, and we're grateful for all the tips, ideas, and stories you share with us. Warm wishes for a new year filled with reading, Judy and Vicki Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp BookClubCookbook.com

Book Blends Spices Introducing Dried and Prejudice

More Information and To Order The deadline for ordering Book Blends has been extended! Sunday, December 16, 9:00 pm EST.

This just in! Dried and Prejudice, the latest Book Blends addition, is a unique combination of Celtic Grey sea salt, peppercorns, and oregano. Perfect to spice up holiday dishes including roasted meats, vegetables, and soups, and an ideal stocking stuffer or hostess gift for the book and food enthusiast (and Jane Austen fan!). Other Book Blends titles: Of Spice and Men Are You There God? It's Me, Marjoram. Slaughterhouse-Chive The Salt in Our Stars A Wrinkle in Thyme The Sage of Innocence ... and more! See All Book Blends

Bookish Celebrations Readers Share Club Traditions

Book clubs often change up their typical gatherings to celebrate the December holidays. This week, book clubs shared their holiday traditions with us. See Jane Read of New Hampshire : “We have a Yankee swap with holiday ornaments. This year, the one everyone wanted was a Santa made of a book!” Book Club of California : “We have a potluck holiday party with a white elephant book exchange and jeopardy game based all of the books we've read.” Bookwomen of California : “At our annual holiday party, we bring children’s books to be donated to a local charity. This was our 26th year of this wonderful tradition.” CLAMS (Corte Madera Literary And Munching Society) of California : "We read a Christmas or winter themed book (often a YA or chapter book), and have a potluck and a wrapped book gift exchange with used books.” Mystery Reading Group of Massachusetts : “Our group has a dinner and Yankee swap with mystery books (we’re a mystery book club) but the rules are you can't buy one - it has to be one you've read and liked!”

The Book Club of Greater Baltimore, Maryland : " Our Christmas celebration is a sleepover at a members house. We bring potluck dinner, exchange gifts and play games."

Gift a Book! A few of the titles we have shared on BookClubCookbook.com this year. They make sensational holiday gifts!

The Book Club Cookbook

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The Book Club Cookbook is a wonderful gift for the book and food enthusiast. Holiday recipes include Glögg, a hot spiced wine ( The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ) and Markus Zusak's Vanilla Kipferl cookies ( The Book Thief )!

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