Our values · two of three
Democracy
A book club is a small polity. Commonplace treats it that way — rooms that pick, argue, and decide together, with every voice counted.
Where you'll feel it
The pick rotates
Books are chosen by a person, not a committee — and the chooser changes every cycle. Everyone eventually leads the room they read in.
Anything can go to a ballot
Meeting day, the next book, house rules. A member requests the vote in the app; the room decides together at the table, in the open.
Norms the room wrote
Each club sets its own rules for how disagreement works. Practice at listening, disagreeing well, and deciding together — every single week.
From the founder
"Years of running my own club taught me the groups that last are the ones where nobody owns the room. The calendar vote in our demo isn't a gimmick — it's the whole idea, small."