First there was Hamlet, the Facebook update edition, so perhaps the next logical step is Twitter, the book club!

Via GalleyCat comes word that Picador has launched an online book club where all participation will take place using...Twitter! According to GC "the club begins with Yoko Ogawa's "The Housekeeper and the Professor," which will be discussed on April 10, 2009 in pithy Twitter posts. Upcoming book club titles include: "A Wolf at the Table" by Augusten Burroughs, "The Story of a Marriage" by Andrew Sean Greer and "Last Last Chance" by Fiona Maazel." Interested? You can sign up to follow Picador here.