IndieWeb Book Club
IndieWeb Book Club is a monthly book themed blog carnival inspired by the indieweb-carnival started in October 2025.
Why
IndieWeb carnivals help motivate people to post more on their personal websites.
And for all reasons why described in:
Who
Anyone with a website is eligible to host and welcome to participate!
How To Host
Each month, IndieWeb Book Club has a different host.
At the month's beginning, as host, create an announcement post talking about your book. Add that to the table of books and hosts. Hosts add to that post as entries come in by webmention, email, or comment. At the month’s end, the host collects the received submissions and posts an overview of it at a new url and/or update the original announcement.
To commit to hosting, sign up below!
How To Participate
Read the book! Post your review, thoughts, opinions or even a small read post and notify the host.
Books & Hosts
2025
| Month | Host | Book | Intro | Roundup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October |  zachary.kai
|
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin | Intro & Roundup | |
| November |  Joe Crawford
|
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud | Intro | |
| December |  Al Abut
|
Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams | Intro | |
2026
| Month | Host | Book | Intro | Roundup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January |  Mark Sutherland
|
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook | ||
| February |  capjamesg
|
the art of explanation by Ros Atkins | ||
| March |  Nick Simson
|
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander | ||
| April |  jo
|
TBD | ||
| May |  StonePick
|
TBD | ||
| June |  benji
|
TBD | ||
| July | ||||
| August | ||||
| September | ||||
| October | ||||
| November | ||||
| December |
Current Rules (Can Change)
The rules are aligned with the rules for indieweb-carnival with a few tweaks.
For Host
At the month’s beginning, the host posts their chosen book as a post on their site. The host collects the submissions until the end of the month. After that, the host posts the summary of all interactions including links and sends them to the next month's host post.
The main way of people submitting are webmentions and email.
Ideally, when selecting a book, avoid ones that lean too heavily into something that may cause unease, or a genre that only interests a niche audience.
Also, please submit a book you haven't written/contributed to.
Rules For Participants
Once you’ve read the book, post something about it on your blog, like a simple read post or a review. The post should be written in the month the book club takes place.
Then, submit your submission to the host via webmention or email.
History
Started in its current iteration by zachary.kai.
Previous Notes & Ideas
IndieWeb book club is a group of people interested in creating book club functionality a reality in their online presences. Alternately, it could be an actual group of IndieWeb adherents actually reading (IndieWeb related?) books together and discussing them.
- 2019-05-04
Chris Aldrich posted on his own website proposing a book club for Mike Monteiro's book Ruined by Design. Participants are encouraged to write and post publicly about the book on their own websites and syndicate their participation to https://indieweb.xyz/en/bookclub/ as an organizing hub for the conversation. - Chris Aldrich: Could build a parser to take a collection of people and scan their want-to-read lists/posts to surface common books to aid in choosing the next book.
Tantek Çelik: Creating a leaderboard of books to-read
