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BookBrowse supports library book clubs via our book club resources, advice based on 20+ years of research, and our own online book clubs and forum discussions.
BookBrowse has over 2,200 book club discussion guides with more added each week. If you're looking for a specific book guide's your welcome to search for it directly, but if you're browsing to see which books you'd like to discuss, guides are browseable by author, title, and genre, while subscribing libraries and paying members can filter by setting, time period, and theme. Subscribing libraries can also take advantage of our advanced filtering to layer these filters on top of each other, making it easy to help your book club decide what to discuss next. Most of these dicussion guides are also for books that a BookBrowse reviewer has read and recommended, which allows us to provide additional resources for book clubs you won't find anywhere else.
BookBrowse reviews are more opinion than summary, so asking your book club members where they agreed and disagreed with our reviewers can make for another interesting topic for discussion.
For each book BookBrowse reviews and recommends, we also write a Beyond the Book article highlighting a specific aspect of the book, whether that be a setting, character, or even other similar books. For example, for James by Percival Everett, our reviewer wrote an article about Reimagining Classics from a New Perspective; after having your book club members read this article, you could ask them if they've read other reimagined classics.
While BookBrowse has thousands of guides for specific books, we also provide general advice as well, based on 20+ years of research.
BookBrowse has surveyed tens of thousands of book clubbers in order to identify common best practices and pain points, and share learnings.
We've curated some of those learnings in our advice page, while we also have dozens of blog posts dedicated to sharing our book club research as well.
BookBrowse has its own online book club that's open to all, so many libraries use it as an extension of their own book club programming, particularly for patrons who are not able to attend regular in person meetings or for patrons who prefer a text based, asynchronous discussion.
Our previous discussions are also kept up indefinitely, so these can be used as yet another resource for planning your own discussion of these titles: you can see which questions resonated more than others and also see if there are veins of discussion not captured in our guides.
The community forum is also a great place to ask questions specific to your book club, if you're looking for advice outside of our other resources.
BookBrowse continues to build on our book club resources each week, and while many of our resources are available for free, we're able to provide these resources because of our subscribing libraries and individual members.