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
The Boys Book Club - aka the "BBC" - based out of San Diego, California, is made up entirely of men between the ages of 45 and 60 and has been meeting monthly for over two years. Dave Schumacher, one of the group's eight members, tells BookBrowse a bit about the club and what makes them so successful.
Daniel Kahneman. In a 2010 TED lecture, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman analyzes how the human brain makes irrational decisions and falls prey to mental "traps," and he looks at how humans' experienced happiness is quite distinct from their remembered happiness.
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that AS Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark.
A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in history, exploring how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths.
Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants, Margaret Powell's classic memoir of her time in service is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high.
Vivid, daring, and unforgettable, The Printmaker's Daughter shines fresh light on art, loyalty, and the tender and indelible bond between a father and daughter.
After hearing the interview on NPR with the author, Ayad Akhtar, I was intrigued.
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I read The Healing in two sittings it is a fascinating story of plantation life at the beginning of the Civil War. Granada, a slave newborn child...
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