Your curated guide to 2025's best books and 2026's most promising titles — all the insight from BookBrowse's year of expert reviews, distilled into one essential reference.
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Voices of Women in WWII is a curated guide to World War II historical fiction through the eyes of women.
Each book is hand-selected for its compelling portrayal of women's voices in WWII, and is paired with an in-depth BookBrowse review and original context articles that enrich your understanding of the historical backdrop, spotlighting women's lives, culture, and untold stories. The guide includes read-alikes, themes, and links to discussion guides where available so you can confidently choose your next group read.
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Whether you're dreaming of starting your first book club or looking to breathe new life into an existing one, A Club of One's Own is your essential book club guide. Expanding on our 2019 Inner Lives of Book Clubs, BookBrowse, a trusted voice in the world of reading groups, offers a practical, inclusive, and inspiring guide to building a book club that lasts.
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In Reading Deeply with BookBrowse, we highlight 15 articles from our archives which speak to an aspect of deep reading, including symbolism, thematic elements, explorations of genre, literary criticism, the science of reading, and more. While these are not how-to articles, they offer enriching windows into literature that are thought-provoking and will leave you with a deeper appreciation for the books to come.
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Where can you find Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, and National Book Award Winners alongside bestsellers and hidden gems? For over 20 years, BookBrowse has curated the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction, and now for the first time we've assembled a decade of our Best of Year reviews in print. This resource is for any reader looking to find a new great book to read, as well as for those readers for whom curating their TBR list is a passion in itself.
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The Inner Lives of Book Clubs is the essential guide to all things book club. In it you'll discover the elements that most happy and successful book clubs have in common, you'll find proven solutions to a dozen common book club problems, and so much more. It combines the findings from two surveys of more than 5,000 book clubbers (conducted in 2019) with BookBrowse's 15+ years of book club experience and research.
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Book Clubs in Lockdown investigates how book clubs adapted to the challenges of the
Covid-19 pandemic and the implications for the future. It is based on an October 2020 survey of more than 3,400 book club members.
Findings include: how book clubs responded and adapted, where book clubs met and what precautions they took, the good and not so good aspects of meeting virtually, what book clubs did—and did not—discuss in 2020, and the ways in which the pandemic is changing book clubs for the long term.
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See articles based on our research findings in our blog
Note that our 2015 white paper, Book Clubs in the USA was expanded into the Inner Lives of Book Clubs and is no longer available.
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