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About

Perennial Bookclub sends you one chapter of a great book every morning by 6am ET. We read the classics the way they were meant to be read: slowly, a little each day, until the whole book is yours.

Three newsletters

Each newsletter is free and works through its own shelf of twenty great books, in order.

  • Great Ideas: philosophy and big thinking, from Machiavelli and Marcus Aurelius to Thoreau.
  • Great Stories: the novels everyone means to read, starting with Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein.
  • True Stories: history, memoir and science, from Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin to Darwin.

How it works

  1. Choose a newsletter and enter your email. Confirm it, and your first chapter arrives the next morning.
  2. Read one chapter a day. Each takes about ten minutes.
  3. Everyone starts on day one of the first book. When one book ends, the next begins.
  4. Free readers get one newsletter at a time and can switch whenever they like.

Members

Members can get any or all three newsletters, plus companion notes with every reading: a synopsis and character guide when each book begins, then a daily summary, interpretations and a glossary of every unfamiliar word. You can cancel anytime.

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