Indra Sinha
Indra Sinha discusses many aspects of his life and his writing, in particular Animal's People, a fictionalized account of the aftermath of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India.
Kristin Cashore
Kristin Cashore discusses her first novel, Graceling, a fantasy novel for older teens, and her plans for the next two novels in the series.
Uwem Akpan
After publishing “An Ex-Mas Feast” in The New Yorker’s Début Fiction issue for 2005, Akpan discussed his writing with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor.
Morton Meyers M.D.
A Q&A with Morton A Meyers about his book Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs, followed by some fun facts from the book.
What is a Book Club?
A book club, sometimes also called a reading group, or book discussion group, is simply a collection of readers who get
together regularly to discuss books.
Book Clubs at BookBrowse...How we can help
Advice.
At the top of this page are some quick links to advice pages we have developed in response to the numerous questions
we receive. These pages include everything you need to start and run a successful and fun book club, including the
critical steps you need to take to get your new book club off to a successful start, how to choose books that will
stimulate discussion, even trouble-shooting tips for dealing with difficult meeting situations!
Reading Guides.
Some book discussion groups find a reading guide (sometimes called a book discussion guide) a useful tool to direct
their club's discussions; many individuals also like to check out the reading guide for a book they've recently finished
to help them think more deeply about the book. BookBrowse currently lists more than 500 reading guides, and each and
every one is backed by a substantial excerpt from the book, multiple reviews (with no plot spoilers!) and more often than
not, an author interview, so you have everything you need to decide which books are exactly right for your book club.
Warning! Don't read the reading guide until you've read the book as they always include plot spoilers!
Instead, use the excerpt and reviews to help you choose the books that are right for your book club. Also, don't feel
restricted to books that have guides; not all publishers provide guides and there are more great books without discussion
guides than there are with discussion guides. It's very easy to come up with questions to provoke a discussion - especially
with the help of our D.I.Y. discussion guide tips!
We usually add at least a dozen new reading guides each month. All reading guides are free and 'printer friendly' but it can
be difficult to keep track of all that's new, so you might wish to consider becoming a BookBrowse member, because one of the
benefits of membership is the monthly Reading Guide and Interview magazine featuring top line summaries of all the new reading
guides and author interviews. More about membership.
Help Choosing a Book
You're a busy person, and would prefer to spend your time reading great books, not tracking them down. This is especially
important when it comes to choosing books for your book club. How to choose the best book to read, or to suggest to your
Book Club? This is where BookBrowse excels!
We believe in quality, not quantity, and only recommend books that have received exceptionally good reviews,
so you have the reassurance that whatever book you choose it's going to be a winner! Unlike so many others, we don't
blindly follow the bestseller lists and the big-budget titles. At BookBrowse you'll find a range of interesting, thought
provoking titles chosen on quality, and not on the size of their marketing budgets!
Featured Book Club Interview
Erica Schwartz joins us to chat about her 17-year-old Manhattan-based book club, "The Nights at the Round Table."
Lesley Chang. Leslie Chang discusses Factory Girls, in which she reports on her three years following the lives of women living in one of China's factory cities.
Murder is so uncommon in Mongolia that when one occurs, the government accepts help from England in the person of Chief Inspector Drew McLeish of Manchester.Together with Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, they follow the trail of the dead from the abandoned factories of the...
Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small d, became human and were to fall in love?
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future.
Six years ago, Alec Milius got out of the spy game after unbearably great personal cost. Yet when a prominent politician goes missing, the urge that drove Milius to originally enter the spy game comes roaring back, and soon Alec finds himself in the midst of another international conspiracy.
The Book Thief was a tremendously compelling story. Zusak has the ability to put these words on paper and create something that reaches inside of... read more
This is certainly a very well-written, involving novel that examines the complexities of love and marriage. Greer's prose is evocative and at times... read more
This is absolutely the best book I have ever read. Sparks definitely knows how to tug at a readers heart strings! I love the way he makes this love... read more
Bailout is Merriam-Webster word of the year.(Dec 02 2008) With politics and the economy foremost on the minds of many, it is no wonder that bailout—a word ubiquitously featured in discussions of the presidency and...
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This year in history: 1608(Dec 01 2008) Each year, as the holiday season comes around and the news stories start to dry
up, we look back into history for a snapshot of the news in centuries past,...
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