Book Club Hats

Only about 7% of U.S. adults took part in a book club in the past year, according to Pew Research in April 2026, so the people who do turn up are a committed bunch, whether or not they read the book. The jokes are well worn. One Goodreads group sums up its members as the ones who finish the book, the ones who skim the summary and the ones who just show up for the snacks. An Irish Farmers Journal advice-column letter describes a new club that spent about five to ten minutes on the book. A Denver magazine asked whether a book club with no reading is still a book club, and Elizabeth Banks and Archer Roose launched a canned-wine "book club where the books don't matter." These book club hats are for the talkative, did-not-finish member. The badges are BOOK CLUB and BOOK CLUB PRESIDENT. The sentence designs carry the club's own lines: I DIDN'T READ THE BOOK, the Book Riot-featured I TRIED TO FORM A GANG BUT IT TURNED INTO A BOOK CLUB, discussing anything except the book, being the rebel who finished it, reading the last page first, and running the snack committee. This page is separate from Silent Book Club & Reading Hats, the quiet-reader identity, and from Wine Mom Hats. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the next meeting, or give one to the member who hosts.