First, I don't read anything because someone says "you have to read this". If someone recommends a book and I think it sounds interesting, the usual procedure is for me to buy the book (or receive it as a gift), put it on the shelf and then, when the mood strikes me, read it. This can sometimes take years or even, in the case of a few books, decades. Attempting to read something because I have forced myself to is a futile exercise.

I am even finding that my own personally chosen and shaped 2011 Challenge is causing me problems because I would rather read, say, Druon in French and maybe read Zweig in German, but I chose the books and they remain my challenge.

I still may jettison the "challenge" and just say that I should read x more books in German and French (something that I don't think I would have a problem with, since once again I have choices).

With a book club, even one formed by really interesting people in an urban setting such as New York, there will undoubtedly be books that I'm not even interested in reading. This will inevitably mean that there is no way in Hell that I will read the book, the person who chose it will be unhappy, the club will ostracize me and I will go back to my own eclectic reading patterns.

So the short answer is just "no".