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What Are You Reading Right Now?

 

Every time I meet someone in a book club, the first thing we ask each other is, “What are you reading right now?” Below is the answer to that universal book club question—asked to a few of my favorite national and local book clubs, as well as other favorite book club resources:

 

Barnes and Noble:



The Promised World

Lisa Tucker

Best Price $3.83

or Buy New $18.00

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BookBrowse:


The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Paolo Giordano

Best Price $14.65
or Buy New $17.13

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Book Club Girl:

The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Pon...

Rebecca Wells

Best Price $3.52
or Buy New $17.15

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Borders, Online:

The Piano Teacher

Janice Y. K. Lee

Best Price $1.99
or Buy New $10.20

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Borders, Fair Oaks, CA:

The Lost City of Z

David Grann

Best Price $6.30
or Buy New $9.32

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IndieBound:

Mudbound

Hillary Jordan

Best Price $3.77
or Buy New $10.04

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Kepler’s:

The Zookeeper's Wife

Diane Ackerman

Best Price $2.33
or Buy New $10.17

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Oprah:

Women Food and God

Geneen Roth

Best Price $13.20
or Buy New $13.20

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Powell's

On the Road

Jack Kerouac, Ann ...

Best Price $6.30
or Buy New $10.40

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Pulpwood Queens:

The Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver...

Best Price $6.75
or Buy New $13.00

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Readers in the Hood:

Shanghai Girls

Lisa See

Best Price $7.54
or Buy New $10.20

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Woodland Public Library:

Eve

Elissa Elliott

Best Price $8.50
or Buy New $10.20


Rah, Rah, Reading!

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Some of my favorite sites (other than bookclubcheerleader.com, of course) for when you want to:
[Authors]

Invite Authors to chat with your book club: (Book Club Cheerleader is developing this feature, but in the meantime,  you can check out)
  • www.bookbrowse.com  A great over-all resource--you can also sign up for their newsletter

Learn more about Authors (Interviews, Profiles, Essays, etc)

  • www.bookreporter.com Anchor site for one of the most informative—and entertaining—book networks, The Book Report Network; Includes author interviews, profiles and essays.
  • www.randomhouse.com Main site for imprints including Crown, Doubleday, Three Rivers, Knopf, and others in the Random House family. Most of their author’s have profile pages here.
  • www.readinggroupguides.com Also a staple in the Book Report Network stable, this site is geared specifically toward reading groups and book clubs
  • www.readinggroupgold.com Macmillan’s site for book clubs—their imprints include: St. Martin's Press; Picador Books; Farrar; Straus and Giroux; and Minotaur Books. Find their author’s here. 

[Books]

Get Book Recommendations and Reviews

  • www.barnesandnoble.com – Both general reading suggestions, as well as those specifically geared toward book clubs
  • www.beautyandthebook.com – Founder, Kathy Patrick has a knack for choosing great books and discovering up-and-coming authors
  • www.bookbrowse.com – to quote site-owner, Davina, “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” I’ve discovered some great finds following her advice!
  • www.bookreporter.com Anchor site for one of the most informative—and entertaining—book networks, The Book Report Network; they have introduced me to some wonderful book selections over the years!
  • www.indiebound.org Love their Top 10 Reading Group Suggestions—every book they list is either on my nightstand, or I’ve already read—there are no dogs on this list!
  • www.literarymatters.net Esther Bushell is one of the country’s busiest professional book club facilitators—with over 20 clubs depending on her advice. Now that her website is up, we can all benefit from her recommendations! (Don’t you just love technology?)
  • www.randomhouse.com Main site for imprints including Crown, Doubleday, Three Rivers, Knopf, and others in the Random House family. It’s interesting to read which books they think book groups will love.
  • www.readinggroupguides.com Great targeted book recommendations for book clubs, plus tons of related information for your reading group.
  • www.readinggroupgold.com Macmillan’s site for book clubs—their imprints include: St. Martin's Press; Picador Books; Farrar; Straus and Giroux; and Minotaur Books. Read their “best pick” lists for book clubs.

Get Book Recommendations for your Specialty Book Group:

  • www.faithfulreader.com Several of the book clubs that I coach are faith-based groups, and they love this site! It’s part of The Book Report Network, so you know you’re going to get a lot of fun stuff here.
  • www.teenreads.com  If your high school book group is totally over Twilight, this site will give you some fresh suggestions. Also fun things such as movie-tie-in’s and winning free stuff.
  • www.kidsreads.com If Harry Potter got them reading, this site will keep them going. From American Girls to Zeke Armstrong, they’ve got you covered.
  • www.motherdaughterbookclub.com This site is run by a mother who’s led a couple of Mother/Daughter book clubs. It includes all kinds of resources, reviews, and lists of age appropriate books.

Buy Books

Yes, The Book Club Cheerleader™ will benefit if you use either of these links to buy your books on-line. I thank you –and my cats thank you. (They need more tuna and catnip treats.)

Social Network about books: (I’m new to these, but trying to get up to speed. Some day…)

Win Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) or Other Books:

[Clubs]

Get Reading Group Guides:

Hook up with an existing group: Participate in On-line Book Discussions:

See what other book clubs are doing: (Yes, I’m a member of both of these clubs, so of course, I think they’re WAY too much fun…)

[Fun]

Attend great literary events with your book group:

Match your Munchies to your Book:

Watch the movie and read the book:
That should keep you busy! But if I've left off one of your favorites, please share it with me!

Cheers!

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Major Book Awards:

Book Sense Book of the Year Award- Sponsored by the American Booksellers Association for Independent booksellers' favorite books to handsell

Man Booker Prize for Fiction - The prize, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008, aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

National Book Awards  – Celebrates the best of American Literature

National Book Critics Circle Award - Honors the best literature published in English in six categories—autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. These are the only awards chosen by the critics themselves.

Nobel Prize for Literature - Dedicated to “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”.

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction - Celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world.

PEN/Faulkner Award - Honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life

Pulitzer Prize for History - For a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction -For a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American author

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