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Here's another list we got from our 10th Anniversary Contest.  These were some of the most unexpected selections you submitted as your "favorite discussion books".  And these were surprising to say the least. Perhaps each on it's own not sooo strange - but all together - you'll admit - definitely strange!

As most of you know, we're celebrating our 10th Anniversary here at RGG!  And as part of that we ran a contest all summer where we asked you to send us your favorite discussion books of all time.  We had over 12,000 responses which we scoured to pick out the 10 most popular titles.  Without further ado, here they are:

Today's guest blogger is Bernhard Schlink, best known for his book THE READER.  He has a new book out that may prove to be just as impactful as THE READER and promises to stir up some excellent conversation for your book club.  It's called THE WEEKEND and deals with terrorism from a different point of view - that of the terrorist and his friends and family as they gather upon his release from prison.  In today

I've been to a fair number of author events in my day from luncheons to bookstore readings to schmancy book launch cocktail parties and the more I think about it the more I realize I have rarely been to one of these events where there weren't other authors in attendance showing their support. 

In today's post, regular contributor Heather Johnson (Age 30+ ...

In today's post, regular contributor Denise Neary shares her review of the new movie It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on the book of the same name.  Consider reading the book and then doing an outing with your book club to catch the movie. Let’s hear it for a movie true to the book it is based on!

Earlier this week the Masters in Education website released a list of the Top 50 Book Clubs to Inspire and Learn From and guess who made the list?  ReadingGroupGuides.com of course! We are proud to be a part of such a great list whose other members include:

As members of reading groups and book clubs we are all clearly geniuses (I think I may have noted that earlier this week as well), but we have figured out that conversation (especially conversation about books) goes very well with food (and often wine -- but de

I don't why I'm so full of questions this week... I guess it's because I think sometimes the best ideas we get here at RGG are from you... our readers.  You are out there in the trenches (or living rooms anyway) experiencing your book clubs and having all kinds of wonderful (or strange) discussions and tons of great ideas. 

As individuals, of course, we are all 100% perfect.  But I think we can all acknowldedge that once you put a bunch of us together in a group things automatically get less perfect.  And as smart and wonderful as all of our book club members are, there are bound to be things that drive you a little crazy. So today, my question is... if there was one thing you could change about your book club, what would it be? Is the time of day or day of week not quite right for you? Is there one person who takes over every discussion that just makes you crazy?