How do we vote on the next book when half the club isn't done?

Waiting until everyone has finished the current book sounds fair, but in practice it punishes the members who do the reading. They show up to the meeting, they finish the book, and then they have to wait an extra week or two for the laggards to catch up. That's how clubs lose their best readers.

Set a vote-by date the same week as the meeting. Whoever showed up — read or not — gets a vote. The people who didn't read often won't bother voting anyway, which is fine.

The people who didn't finish probably don't have strong opinions

Most clubs we run see the same pattern: the members who didn't finish the book also don't have strong preferences on what comes next. They're not invested. Letting the readers drive the next pick is honest, not exclusionary.

If a member never finishes, that's a signal

Someone who consistently doesn't finish is telling you something. Maybe the books are too long for their pace. Maybe the vibe (literary, fun, mixed) isn't matching their taste. Maybe they're in the club for the social aspect more than the reading.

The fix isn't to change the voting rules. It's to either adjust the picks to fit them, accept they'll skip some, or have a kind conversation about whether the club is still a fit.

If picking books that fit your group's vibe is the harder of those problems, that's exactly what we built Picked Together for.