Bring Your Own Book

Bring Your Own Book A book club with a twist! Bring & talk about your favourite books, make new friends & take home new books to read. | Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and many more |

A Little Free Library - but with people. Currently active in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kochi! Chapters in Chennai, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Jaipur soon! Message us if you want to start a chapter in your own city. The BYOB Club (Bring Your Own Book) is a BOOK club with a twist! Here you bring and talk about your favourite books, make new friends, eat (free, mostly) food and best of all, t

ake home books to read (but do return them later)! Instagram: instagram.com/byobindia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BYOBIndia

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BYOB Club is a BOOK club that meets in real life. At most of our meets, you can bring ANY book you like, but we sometimes do meets with specific themes, or discuss one book or author. It's all a lot of fun. We meet at cafes, parks and homes. Homes are our favourite places to meet. Age no bar, you just *literally* have to bring a book. No tickets, ever. Promise. Registration is compulsory for most meets though. Join the city-specific facebook groups for discussions and banter, and updates on meet-ups:
Delhi+Gurgaon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/delhibyob/
Mumbai: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mumbaibyob/
Bangalore: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bangalorebyob/
Kochi: https://www.facebook.com/groups/928857537234277/

Not in any of these cities? Join our worldwide BYOB community on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/168927-byob-club

OR start your own chapter: http://bringyourownbook.org/yourcity

We also have a Writers' Group on facebook to keep the budding writer in you motivated through your first draft: https://www.facebook.com/groups/byobwriters/

Delhi BYOB meet February 2026Books discussed:Green Humour for a Greying Planet by Rohan ChakravartyAnnihilation by Miche...
02/03/2026

Delhi BYOB meet February 2026

Books discussed:
Green Humour for a Greying Planet by Rohan Chakravarty

Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq

Where You'll Find Us by Jen St. Jude

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Hunger by Choi Jin-young

Not Quiet Dead Yet by Holly Jackson.

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave

In Xanadu by William Dalrymple

King of Ashes by S.A. Corby

How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent

Bangalore BYOB - January 2026We celebrated the 120th meet and 10 years of BYOB here in Bangalore :)
16/02/2026

Bangalore BYOB - January 2026

We celebrated the 120th meet and 10 years of BYOB here in Bangalore :)

Delhi BYOB - the first meet of 2026. Our theme was "Books and their adaptations".What has been your favourite book adapt...
19/01/2026

Delhi BYOB - the first meet of 2026. Our theme was "Books and their adaptations".

What has been your favourite book adaptation in recent times?

Books we discussed:
•⁠ ⁠A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, the 2015 Swedish movie and its 2022 adaptation, A Man Called Otto
•⁠ ⁠Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and the 1999 cult classic movie
•⁠ ⁠The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie and the 2026 Netflix miniseries
•⁠ ⁠The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller and its 1992 adaptation
•⁠ ⁠Calling Sehmat by Harinder Sikka and the 2018 blockbuster Raazi
•⁠ ⁠Peril at End House by Agatha Christie and the 1989 series Agatha Christie’s Poirot
•⁠ ⁠No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai and its manga and movie adaptations
•⁠ ⁠Animal Farm by George Orwell and the 1954 Film
•⁠ ⁠⁠All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and the 2023 miniseries
•⁠ ⁠Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, and the 2022 Amazon Prime documentary and various podcasts

Happy Reading!

Braved the cold Delhi winter for our last meet of 2025 :D📍 Nehru ParkBooks discussed:What I Talk About When I Talk About...
09/01/2026

Braved the cold Delhi winter for our last meet of 2025 :D

📍 Nehru Park

Books discussed:
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Birdwatchingwatching by Alex Horne
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Stargazing Dog by Takashi Murakami
Scale by Geoffrey West
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
Good Material by Dolly Alderton

📸: Amit

Our November Noida BYOB meet at  !
12/12/2025

Our November Noida BYOB meet at !

Delhi BYOB December meetTheme: Books and places they thrive inBooks discussed: *1. Days at the morasaki bookshop ( Ramya...
04/01/2025

Delhi BYOB December meet

Theme: Books and places they thrive in

Books discussed: *1. Days at the morasaki bookshop ( Ramya.) 2. More days at the morasaki bookshop.( Roshnee) 3. Midnight Library (Vikas) 4. A short stay in hell (Noeen) 5. The Little coffee shop of kabul ( Samyuktha) 6. Funny story.(Ashish) 7. The Paris Library (Navneet) 8.Last bookshop in London.(Atiyab) 9. Before we lost kindness ( Sagar) 10.The labyrinth of the spirits (Aakash) 11.The door to door bookstore (Aakash kumar) 12. The polymath (Vibhu)*

*Books Discussed At The 100th Meet of  Bangalore BYOB on 25th May 2024:*1. Anand • Corfu Trilogy - Gerard Durrell2. Ajay...
09/06/2024

*Books Discussed At The 100th Meet of Bangalore BYOB on 25th May 2024:*

1. Anand
• Corfu Trilogy - Gerard Durrell
2. Ajay Ramasehan
• Balochistan: Bruised Battered and Blooded - Francesca Marino
3. Arvind
• Marcel Proust: A Life - Jean-Yves Tadie
4. Jyotsna
• Chronicle of a Co**se Bearer - Cyrus Mistry
• The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
5. Ashwini
• Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI - Madhumita Murgia
6. Priyadarshini
• Asprushyaru (Vasudeva’s Family) - Vaidehi
7. Abhinand
• Have You Eaten Grandma? - Gyles Brandreth
8. Rajasekhar
• Inner Goal - Robert Johnson
9. Sandhya
• Know My Name - Chanel Miller•
10. Ajit Paul
• On Grief and Reason: Essays - Joseph Brodsky
11. Abhilash
• Dance of Thieves Duology - Mary E. Pearson
12. Darshan
• Together - Vivek H. Murthy
13. Suryansh
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife - David Eagleman
14. Alisha
• Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
15. Soumya
• Collegu Ranga - B.G.L. Swamy
16. Pradeesha
• The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
17. Mohit
• The Great Gatsby - Scott F. Fitzgerald
18. Siddhant
• Into the Heart of Himalayas - Jono Lineen
19. Vinay
• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Loung Ung
20. Pradeep
• The Love Gap - Jenna Birch
21. Lavanya
• H-Pop: Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars - Kunal Purohit
22. Anuradha
• Unstoppable Us Series - Yuval Noah Harari
23. Saadrusha
• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
24. Chinmay
• The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly - Luis Sepulveda
25. Sudarshan
• The Rabbit Listened - Cori Doerrfeld
• The Emergency: A Personal History - Coomi Kapoor
26. Vinayak Hegde
• H for Heritage Mumbai - Fiona Fernandez
• Among the Russians - Colin Thubron

_Other Books Recommended/ Mentioned:_
Whatever Happened to Margo - Margaret Durrell
Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future - Tom Chivers
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart Russell
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
In the First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
The Body Keeps the Score - Bes

Delhi BYOB - June 2024 Thank you to the lovely  team!
29/04/2024

Delhi BYOB - June 2024
Thank you to the lovely team!

Upcoming BYOB meets -
14/04/2024

Upcoming BYOB meets -

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Bangalore BYOB 8th anniversary meet 💛🖤
12/02/2024

Bangalore BYOB 8th anniversary meet 💛🖤

Pictures from Sunday's BYOB Meet. Thank you everyone for coming. Hope everyone had a good time.
24/01/2024

Pictures from Sunday's BYOB Meet. Thank you everyone for coming. Hope everyone had a good time.

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