I posted this on Reddit on the r/Wattpad under an old post Book Clubs, Anyone?

I'm in the process of creating a book club and have been looking for a framework. I came across a community book with guidelines for creating a group and can't find it. I'd love to connect with folks who want to find good stuff to read.

My idea is to collect reviews of books with no commitment and no pressure with the goal of finding clean things to read for those of us who don't read mature. I've put together a book review form with mostly picking from lists for genre, subgenre, descriptive terms, etc to make it really easy to review a book or story.

Most book clubs require people to read stuff they really don't want to read. I want people to review what they are actually reading, in the genre they want, and try to pair people up with other writers in their genre.

I thought to call it Squeaky Clean Book Club, but I don't want to exclude writers who don't write that way. After all, if I get reviews of books I wouldn't read, this serves the function of warning parents, doesn't it? And people with different standards could use our reviews to decide if they want to read it. So the reviews themselves could grow into review books in different categories, curated by people who like that standard. As I receive reviews, I could make different lists.

The bottom line is, writers could submit their own books and those who like their genre could do reviews. Reviews could be dropped into a book by genre and categories of how clean they are. As long as they fit Wattpad's standards, everyone's books would qualify for one of the lists.

This project is a learning experience for me. Would love to hear from someone who's tried something like this and maybe what's wrong with my plan. I envision it as something several people with different standards could come together and curate their own lists. So someone who loves spicy romances could curate a reading list of them. A person who reads a certain kind of work is the best judge for that work. It would be a way of making groups of writers and readers who like the same genre and the same amount of cleanliness vs spice, and other measures as well.

I am looking at for their scale of cleanliness/parent warnings. They maintain a database of traditionally published works. I want to see the same thing for Wattpad and other platforms.

I created an account for this squeakycleanbookclub at gmail.com

If you want to create a different kind of book club on your profile, but want to join with me in the idea of different book clubs for different interests, let's collaborate! We could decide together on an easy way to get book reviews and pass them among each other, so if a work wasn't clean enough for Squeaky Clean Book Club, I could pass it to a sister/brother book club where it would be a better fit.

This would also address the issue of how big can our database be? I use Gmail and the free size is 5 GB. So I wouldn't be able to have very many book reviews in it at a time. I could, of course, pick the ones I want and put them into a book of reviews by category. But if I had a group of friends to pass the ones I don't want to put in my books of reviews to others, everyone's review would find a home! 

I wouldn't want to spend my time reading and reviewing, only to have the book review club leader or group running it to simply delete it! No one should be left out, and no one's book should be left out.

All comments welcome!