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READERS' PAGE
Readers' Web Sites

READING GROUP WEB SITES
Thinking about joining a reading group or maybe starting one yourself?  The links below will help you find good books for your reading group.   Many of them provide discussion questions, information on how to start your own group, as well as information about existing online reading groups.

PUBLISHERS' READING GROUP GUIDES
READING GROUP GUIDES & RECOMMENDATION LISTS
ONLINE MESSAGE BOARD BOOK CLUBS
E-MAIL BOOK CLUBS
TELEVISION SHOW BOOK CLUBS

PUBLISHERS' READING GROUP GUIDES
Publishers often make their guides for reading groups available on the web.  If you know of a title that your book group plans to read, look for the publisher's name, and click on the link for that publisher below to see if an online reading group guide has been made available for the title in question.

Ballantine Reader’s Circle
Bantam, Broadway, Dell & Doubleday Book Group Corner
Beacon Press Reading Group Guides
HarperCollins Reading Guides
Knopf Reading Group Guides
Macmillan Reading Group Guides
Penguin Group Reading Guides
Random House Reading Group Guides
Simon & Schuster Book Club Reader
Time Warner Books – Reading Group Guides
Vintage Books Reading Group Center
W.W. Norton & Co. Reading Group Guides

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READING GROUP GUIDES & RECOMMENDATION LISTS
Below you will find links to reading group guides that were not created by publishers. These can be useful if you don't have a particular title in mind for your reading group, but you want to find a book for which discussion questions have already been created.   In addition, you will find links to web sites that contain recommended titles for reading groups.

African American Literature Book Club – The AALBC contains information about new and classic African-American literature.

Booklist Center - Includes lists prepared by authorities in dozens of fields as well as comprehensive listings of award winning books complete from the first year of the award to the present.

Book-Clubs-Resource.com – A comprehensive guide to book clubs, reading groups and reading group guides

Books We Have Read and Loved – The writers of Reading Women have created a list of Great Reads that they recommend for reading groups and book clubs.

Great Books Foundation - Great Books reading and discussion programs introduce adult participants to substantial works of literature, philosophy, economics, political science, and psychology.

If You Like... - Christchurch City Libraries in New Zealand have put together many lists of books, both fiction and nonfiction, that come highly recommended.

Novelist - (You'll need your 14-digit North Kingstown library card number.)   Novelist has created an easily accessible set of reading group guides.  When you get to the main menu, click on the "For Readers" tab at the top of the page.

Overbooked - A web site for ravenous readers.   Includes author web pages, annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed book lists, featured titles and hot lists of hardcover U.S. fiction releases.

Professor Brians Online Study Guides to Various Works – contains reading group guides and recommendations for classics as well as quality contemporary literature.

Reading Group Guides – A well-organized site that continually adds reading group guides in the following categories: historical fiction, religion & spirituality, award winners, memoirs, “books into movies,” and mystery & thriller.   The site also contains information about how to start and run your own reading group.

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ONLINE MESSAGE BOARD BOOK CLUBS
The following book clubs use message boards. A message board is an online bulletin board where people post messages and announcements.  Many online book clubs require that you register to join.  (Look at the next category for e-mail book clubs.)

Book Chat Central – Book Chat Central runs a reading message board, and also contains links to four reading groups, “Book Bunch,” “Booked for Murder,” “Sci/Fi Fantasy,” and “Spine Tinglers.”  You can even start your own Book Chat reading group by e-mailing Book Chat Central.

Bookworms Virtual Book Club – Bookworms is a virtual book club located in Yahoo! Clubs.  

Chatelaine Book Club – Hosted by Chatelaine magazine of Canada, the Chatelaine Book Club focuses on Canadian fiction and classic literature.

Thumper's Corner – Home of The Coffee Will Make You Black On-line reading group.

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E-MAIL BOOK CLUBS
E-mail book clubs run through an automatic mailing list server.   By signing up, you are able to send e-mail to one address that then distributes that e-mail to everyone else in the club.   In addition, you will receive e-mail from all other members of the list server on a daily basis.  Different groups require you to sign up in different ways, so you need to find registration information on the pages listed below.

Ad Books – Ad Books is an e-mail list where readers can discuss books written for adolescents.  Members include children, teens and adults.

The Book Group List – The Book Group List reads two books a month from fiction and non-fiction selections.

The Bookies – The Bookies read three books a month: a main selection, the Oprah selection, and a bonus vote selection.

BOOK CLUBS HOSTED BY TELEVISION SHOWS
A number of television shows have created their own book clubs:

Good Morning America's "Read This" Book Club - the reading group hosted by ABC's Good Morning America show.

Oprah's Book Club - Oprah Winfrey's selection of fiction, non-fiction and classic works

Today Show Book Club - This web page will give you information about the current selection for the Today Show Book Club, as well as information about other books recommended by the Today Show.

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