April 23, 2026
At some point in most book clubs, someone says it: we should just go.
Go to Ireland. Go to Yorkshire. Go to the city the last novel was set in. We’ve been meeting for eight years and we should actually do this.
And then nothing happens, because nobody knows where to start.
That’s the thing I want to fix.
Book club travel is exactly what it sounds like: your group goes to a place that connects to what you’ve been reading. Sometimes that’s the city where the author lived. Sometimes it’s the landscape the novels keep returning to. Sometimes it’s a destination your group has been circling for years — the one that keeps coming up in discussion.
The trip is built around your books, not the other way around. That’s what makes it different from a regular group vacation. You arrive having already read your way into the place. You see it differently because of the reading. And the conversations over dinner are better than any book club meeting you’ve ever had, because you’re having them in the place the books described.
I’m a travel advisor, which means I plan and book the trip on your behalf. I research accommodations, build the itinerary, handle the logistics, negotiate group rates, and put together the reading list if you want one. You tell me where you want to go and what your group cares about. I handle everything else.
There’s one thing that surprises most book clubs when they find out: my fee comes from the hotels and tour operators, not from you. I earn commission from the suppliers the way any travel advisor does. A well-planned book club trip with me costs the same as booking it yourself — usually less, because I have access to group rates and negotiated pricing that aren’t available directly.
You don’t pay me an upfront fee. You pay for the trip. I plan it.
Not much. A destination, a rough sense of your group’s budget, the number of travelers, and a general timeframe. If you have a reading list in mind, bring it. If you don’t, I’ll build one around wherever you’re going.
Most book club trips I plan involve 6–16 people, run 7–10 nights, and are organized around a specific literary connection — a novel’s setting, an author’s home region, a landscape that keeps appearing in the books your group loves. Some groups want a fully packed itinerary. Some want a base and free time to explore. I work around what your group actually wants.
Almost anywhere can work, but some places earn it more than others. The best book club destinations have:
Yorkshire, the west of Ireland, the Windward Islands, the Scottish Borders, New Orleans, the Dordogne — these are places where the reading and the place genuinely amplify each other. I can help you figure out if the destination your group is dreaming about has what it takes to make a great trip.
If your book club has been saying “we should just go” for more than a year, let’s make it happen. Reach out and tell me where you’re thinking. I’ll tell you what I can do.
The trip your book club keeps talking about? It’s not as far away as it feels.
Trip announcements, curated reading lists, and the occasional dispatch — before anyone else.