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Lory and her book group, Monaco Book Club, had a Skype chat with Lisa See
about THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN, and it was a huge hit.
Two Contests and Lots of News in This Update
We got some nice feedback from readers about inviting authors to book group discussions, which we talked about in the last couple of newsletters.
Lory wrote, “My book club, Monaco Book Club, read Lisa See's THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN this month, and we were lucky enough to coordinate a Skype session with her last night. It was very exciting and, as always when we get the author's perspective, revealing. We are so hoping to have more experiences like this in the future. I've included a picture we took at the end of the evening to share with you. It was awesome." You can see that photo above.
Lory followed up with this note, which I think has a great tip in it: "We did realize that next time we coordinate something like this, we should meet prior to the Skype call to discuss the book briefly; it generates more questions to ask the author. Last night, we continued discussing the book after the Skype call and came up with about 15 more questions to ask.” This is an interesting idea.
My neighborhood book group is going to Skype with Lisa next month. We plan to meet for about 30 minutes before she joins us via Skype. I am hoping this is enough time for us to organize our questions! If others have tips on talking to authors, or photos of your group chatting with an author, please send them our way.
We have been shooting videos to promote the books that we are featuring on both ReadingGroupGuides.com and Bookreporter.com. We now have a YouTube channel and Instagram page for The Book Report Network where we feature our videos, as well as Facebook pages for ReadingGroupGuides and Bookreporter. Lots more to come with video as we are knocking around many ideas here. May we suggest that you subscribe to or follow us on YouTube, Instagram and/or Facebook? Typically all videos will be uploaded to each, but longer ones will only be on YouTube and Facebook.
Video is just one way that we are planning to grow The Book Report Network, which is part of what we are doing with the dollars raised by our fundraiser.
Speaking of video, Martha Hall Kelly shared that funding for the Rabbits of Ravensbrück documentary is nearing the final phase on Kickstarter. There is a very interesting backstory to the inspiration for this video. As you know, the rabbits were the focus of Martha’s LILAC GIRLS. You can read more about this project here.
I love reading more about the backstory of historical fiction titles. My Long Hill Book Group discussed THE HUNTRESS by Kate Quinn this week. Julia, who was leading the discussion, had done a deep dive into the real-life characters that Kate wrote about in her Author’s Note. I wish we had spent more time talking about what she had learned, beyond our conversation about the book.
Many of you were huge fans of William Kent Krueger’s bestselling novel, ORDINARY GRACE, when it was published back in 2013. His latest novel, THIS TENDER LAND, will be in stores on Tuesday, September 3rd. I was lucky enough to read a very early copy and have been raving about it ever since then; it will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. THIS TENDER LAND is atmospheric like WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, and sparks thoughts of BEFORE WE WERE YOURS and ORPHAN TRAIN.
While the bayou is the setting for CRAWDADS, here we have an orphan and his friends meandering down the mighty rivers of the Midwest to escape the Lincoln School in Minnesota where they were mistreated. Their travels are reminiscent of Huck Finn, giving readers a real sense of the land and the water, as well as their camaraderie.
I am happy to share that we have a very special contest where we’re giving 10 groups the chance to win up to 10 advance copies of THIS TENDER LAND, provided that they can give us their feedback on it by Friday, August 16th. To enter, all you have to do is fill out this form by Wednesday, May 15th at noon ET. We will add discussion questions as soon as they become available.
Our “What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month” contest continues with the paperback edition of Emily Giffin’s ALL WE EVER WANTED as the prize title. In this New York Times bestseller from last year, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values. Three readers will win 12 copies of the book for their group; be sure to enter by filling out the form on this page by Wednesday, May 8th at noon ET. Click here for the discussion guide and here for our Bookreporter.com review.
We’ve added two new guides to this late-month update: THE MOTHER-IN-LAW by Sally Hepworth, a twisty novel that revolves around one woman’s complicated relationship with her mother-in-law, which ultimately ends in death; and MIRACLE CREEK, Angie Kim’s much-buzzed-about debut novel about how far we’ll go to protect our families and our deepest secrets. THE MOTHER-IN-LAW will be a Bets On pick; you can read my commentary in the May 3rd Bookreporter newsletter. In the meantime, check out our rave review here. I am reading MIRACLE CREEK now, and I see why it’s been getting so much attention.
Our poll continues to ask which of 13 notable books that have recently released you have read or are planning to read with your group. Click here to let us know.
We have plenty of contests going on right now over at Bookreporter.com, including our 14th annual Mother’s Day contest, giveaways for THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake (which I have been raving about and will be a Bets On selection) and THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson, and our ongoing Word of Mouth and Sounding Off on Audio contests. More details on all of these features can be found later in this newsletter.
Some of our best ideas come from our readers. Tania wrote, “I enjoy reading the Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks column. I am only able to see the lists and picks for 2019. Is there a way that I can see columns from previous years? I conduct a monthly book club and like to browse these lists in order to help me select books for my ladies in book club. Also, I am trying to piece together a historical list of Target Book Club Picks.” This is a great idea, and last week we added these lists and picks going back to April 2014, when we started this feature. You can find the links to previous years on this page. Many thanks to Tom, our Editorial Director, for keeping these copious notes through the years!
A reminder that on Tuesday, May 7th at 7pm local time, Barnes & Noble will be hosting a free Book Club Night in stores across the country for their April selection, LOST ROSES by the aforementioned Martha Hall Kelly (one of this month’s featured guides and a Bets On pick). If you’d like to attend, click here to sign up! That same night, their next book club title will be announced as well.
Yesterday, Stu Smith of Simon & Schuster and bookstagrammers Morgan and Heather hosted a Facebook Live Book Club chat to talk about THE FAVORITE SISTER by Jessica Knoll, April's pick for S&S's Book Club Favorites program, which you can see here. Next month's selection will be DEAR MRS. BIRD by AJ Pearce, which releases in paperback on May 7th.
Last week saw the announcement of the 103rd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music. Among the winners were THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers (Fiction), AMITY AND PROSPERITY: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold (General Nonfiction), and FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight (History). Click here for the complete list of winners and nominees in the Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music categories.
The 39th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded two weeks ago. The winners included THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai (Fiction), MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Mystery/Thriller), and THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú (Current Interest). Click here for all the winners and nominees.
Please keep in mind that this Saturday, April 27th is Independent Bookstore Day, which their official website describes as "a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is different. But in addition to authors, live music, cupcakes, scavenger hunts, kids events, art tables, readings, barbecues, contests and other fun stuff, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online." Click here for more on this special day and how you can help celebrate it.
Have a great discussion with your book group!
Carol Fitzgerald ([email protected])
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New Special Contest: Enter to Win Up to 10 Advance Copies of THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger and Share Your Group's Comments on It
ReadingGroupGuides.com is proud to host a very special contest for THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the early years of the Great Depression, which releases on September 3rd. Ten book groups will win up to 10 advance copies of the book with the commitment of previewing it and providing feedback on it by Friday, August 16th. To enter, please fill out this form by Wednesday, May 15th at noon ET.
In order to qualify as a winning group, your group must be able to commit to reading and discussing THIS TENDER LAND, and sharing your group's feedback with us, by Friday, August 16th. We strongly encourage all winners to share their experiences on social media, including reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and Bookreporter.com’s "Word of Mouth" feature.
THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger (Historical Fiction)
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.
Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, THIS TENDER LAND is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams and makes us whole.
Click here to enter the contest.
"What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" Contest: Enter to Win 12 Copies of ALL WE EVER WANTED
by Emily Giffin for Your Group
Each month, we ask book groups to share the titles they are reading that month and rate them. From all entries, three winners will be selected, and each will win 12 copies of that month’s prize book for their group. Note: To be eligible to win, let us know the title of the book that YOUR book group is CURRENTLY reading, NOT the title we are giving away.
Our latest prize book is ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Giffin, which is now available in paperback. In this riveting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values. To enter, please fill out the form on this page by Wednesday, May 8th at noon ET.
ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Giffin (Fiction)
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville’s elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton.
Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in Nina wonders if she’s strayed from the person she once was.
Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs while struggling to raise his headstrong daughter, Lyla. His road has been lonely, long and hard, but he finally starts to relax after Lyla earns a scholarship to Windsor Academy, Nashville’s most prestigious private school.
Amid so much wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn’t always fit in --- and her overprotective father doesn’t help --- but in most ways, she’s a typical teenaged girl, happy and thriving.
Then, one photograph, snapped in a drunken moment at a party, changes everything. As the image spreads like wildfire, the Windsor community is instantly polarized, buzzing with controversy and assigning blame.
At the heart of the lies and scandal, Tom, Nina and Lyla are forced together --- all questioning their closest relationships, asking themselves who they really are, and searching for the courage to live a life of true meaning.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here to enter the contest.
Featured Guide: LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly
April’s Barnes & Noble Book Club Selection
and a Bookreporter.com Bets On Title
LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly (Historical Fiction)
It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia.
But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia's imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortuneteller's daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution. But when Sofya's letters suddenly stop coming, she fears the worst for her best friend.
From the turbulent streets of St. Petersburg to the avenues of Paris and the society of fallen Russian émigrés who live there, the lives of Eliza, Sofya and Varinka will intersect in profound ways, taking readers on a breathtaking ride through a momentous time in history.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read Carol's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
- Click here to read our interview with Martha Hall Kelly.
- Visit the Barnes & Noble Book Club page and sign up for their free Book Club Night.
Click here for the featured guide.
Featured Guide:
BEYOND THE POINT by Claire Gibson
BEYOND THE POINT by Claire Gibson (Fiction)
Duty. Honor. Country. That’s West Point’s motto, and every cadet who passes through its stone gates vows to live it. But on the eve of 9/11, as Dani, Hannah and Avery face four grueling years ahead, they realize they’ll only survive if they do it together.
Everyone knows Dani is going places. With athletic talent and a brilliant mind, she navigates West Point’s predominantly male environment with wit and confidence, breaking stereotypes and embracing new friends.
Hannah’s grandfather, a legendary Army general, offers a stark warning about the dangers that lie ahead, but she moves forward anyway, letting faith guide her path. When she meets her soul mate at West Point, the future looks perfect, just as planned.
Wild child Avery moves fast and doesn’t mind breaking a few rules (and hearts) along the way. But she can’t outpace her self-doubt, and the harder she tries, the further it leads her down a treacherous path.
The world --- of business, of love and of war --- awaits Dani, Hannah and Avery beyond the gates of West Point. These three women know that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But soon, that adage no longer rings true --- for their future, or their friendship. As they’re pulled in different directions, will their hard-forged bond prevail or shatter?
BEYOND THE POINT is a heartfelt look at how our closest friends can become our fiercest battle buddies. After all, the greatest battles we fight rarely require a uniform.
Click here for the featured guide.
New Guide: THE MOTHER-IN-LAW by Sally Hepworth
An Upcoming Bookreporter.com Bets On Title
THE MOTHER-IN-LAW by Sally Hepworth (Psychological Thriller/Mystery)
From the moment Lucy met her husband’s mother, she knew she wasn’t the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Exquisitely polite, friendly and always generous, Diana nonetheless kept Lucy at arm’s length despite her desperate attempts to win her over. And as a pillar in the community, an advocate for female refugees, and a woman happily married for decades, no one had a bad word to say about Diana…except Lucy.
That was five years ago.
Now, Diana is dead, a suicide note found near her body claiming that she longer wanted to live because of the cancer wreaking havoc inside her body.
But the autopsy finds no cancer.
It does find traces of poison, and evidence of suffocation.
Who could possibly want Diana dead? Why was her will changed at the 11th hour to disinherit both of her children and their spouses? And what does it mean that Lucy isn’t exactly sad she’s gone?
Fractured relationships and deep family secrets grow more compelling with every page in this twisty, captivating new novel from Sally Hepworth.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the discussion guide.
THE MOTHER-IN-LAW will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick.
Don't miss Carol's commentary in the May 3rd Bookreporter newsletter.
New Guide: MIRACLE CREEK by Angie Kim
MIRACLE CREEK by Angie Kim (Legal Thriller/Mystery)
My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first...
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine --- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos’ small community.
Who or what caused the explosion? Was it the mother of one of the patients, who claimed to be sick that day but was smoking down by the creek? Or was it Young and Pak themselves, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? The ensuing trial uncovers unimaginable secrets from that night --- trysts in the woods, mysterious notes, child-abuse charges --- as well as tense rivalries and alliances among a group of people driven to extraordinary degrees of desperation and sacrifice.
Angie Kim’s MIRACLE CREEK is a thoroughly contemporary take on the courtroom drama, drawing on the author’s own life as a Korean immigrant, former trial lawyer and mother of a real-life “submarine” patient. Both a compelling page-turner and an excavation of identity and the desire for connection, MIRACLE CREEK is a brilliant, empathetic debut from an exciting new voice.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New April Releases of Interest to Book Groups
Below are a number of books releasing in April for the first time (which we aren't currently featuring on the site) that we think will be of interest to book groups.
THE DEPARTMENT OF SENSITIVE CRIMES: A Detective Varg Novel by Alexander McCall Smith (Mystery/Humor)
In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult. In Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division. These are their stories.
FEAST YOUR EYES by Myla Goldberg (Historical Fiction)
The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning author of BEE SEASON, is a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation.
THE GIRL HE USED TO KNOW by Tracey Garvis Graves (Romance)
Tracey Garvis Graves, the New York Times bestselling author of ON THE ISLAND, presents a compelling, hopelessly romantic novel of unconditional love.
THE MOMENT OF LIFT: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates (Social Science/Women's Studies)
This debut from Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.
NANAVILLE: Adventures in Grandparenting by Anna Quindlen (Memoir)
Before blogs even existed, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of family, motherhood and modern life in her nationally syndicated column. Now she’s taking the next step and going full nana in the pages of this lively, beautiful and moving book about being a grandmother.
THE PEACOCK EMPORIUM by Jojo Moyes (Fiction)
From bestselling author Jojo Moyes comes the story of a young woman who finds new meaning in life after opening an eclectic shop and comes to terms with the secrets of her past.
THE SUMMER COTTAGE by Viola Shipman (Fiction)
From the bestselling author of THE CHARM BRACELET and THE RECIPE BOX comes the perfect summer escape about the restorative power of family tradition, small-town community and the feel of sand between your toes.
WOMEN TALKING by Miriam Toews (Fiction)
For the past two years, eight Mennonite women have been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that they have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm.
Recent Bookreporter.com Bets On Selections:
THE SUMMER COTTAGE by Viola Shipman
and THE GIRL HE USED TO KNOW
by Tracey Garvis Graves
THE SUMMER COTTAGE by Viola Shipman (Fiction)
THE SUMMER COTTAGE by Viola Shipman is set in Saugatuck, Michigan, a city that I always have wanted to visit. It’s also where the author has a home, so the feel of the place is very authentic.
In this book, Adie Lou Kruger (I must ask where that name came from) is getting divorced from her professor husband, who took a shine to one of his grad students. As they are splitting up their assets, she realizes that she wants Cozy Cottage, a summer home that needs a lot of love to be restored. While it’s short on the latest design features, it’s big on memories as Adie Lou’s grandparents were big on rules for enjoying life at the cottage, and she intends to keep forging these traditions and transform the house into a B&B.
- Click here to visit Viola Shipman's website.
Click here to read more of Carol's commentary on THE SUMMER COTTAGE.
THE GIRL HE USED TO KNOW by Tracey Garvis Graves (Romance)
In THE GIRL HE USED TO KNOW, Tracey Garvis Graves has written a book whose characters and story will stay with you for a long time. Our reviews often inspire my reading, as well as yours, and I raced to read this one after seeing our review of it a couple of weeks ago. Annika and Jonathan are wonderfully written characters, and I found myself completely wrapped up in their story as I read.
They meet at college playing chess back in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While readers may recognize it now, Annika is somewhere on the autism spectrum, which few were talking about back then. She is very set in her ways. Labels bother her. Tight clothes are an issue. So are loud noises. But when she focuses, she is laser clear, which is what she is when she plays chess. Jonathan finds her to be a worthy opponent and encourages her to attend a chess tournament, which is way outside her comfort zone. He and her roommate Janice are champions of Annika’s loving, quiet nature and gentle ways. Both help her navigate the things in life that many of us just roll with.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here to read more of Carol's commentary
on THE GIRL HE USED TO KNOW.
New Fiction Author Spotlight & Contest
on Bookreporter.com: THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake
Moving through three generations and back and forth in time, THE GUEST BOOK is Sarah Blake's triumphant new novel that tells the story of a family and a country that buries its past in quiet, until the present calls forth a reckoning. We have 35 advance copies to give away to those who would like to read the book, which releases on May 7th, and share their comments on it. To enter, please fill out this form by Thursday, May 2nd at noon ET.
THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake (Fiction)
No. It is a simple word, uttered on a summer porch in 1936. And it will haunt Kitty Milton for the rest of her life. Kitty and her husband, Ogden, are both from families considered the backbone of the country. But this refusal will come to be Kitty’s defining moment, and its consequences will ripple through the Milton family for generations. For while they summer on their island in Maine, anchored as they are to the way things have always been, the winds of change are beginning to stir.
In 1959 New York City, two strangers enter the Miltons’ circle. One captures the attention of Kitty’s daughter, while the other makes each of them question what the family stands for. This new generation insists the times are changing. And in one night, everything does.
So much so that in the present day, the third generation of Miltons doesn’t have enough money to keep the island in Maine. Evie Milton’s mother has just died, and as Evie digs into her mother’s and grandparents’ history, what she finds is a story as unsettling as it is inescapable, the story that threatens the foundation of the Milton family myth.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to read Sarah Blake's bio.
- Click here to visit Sarah Blake's website.
Click here to read more in our Fiction Author Spotlight and enter the contest.
New Women’s Fiction Author Spotlight & Contest
on Bookreporter.com: THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson
A young outcast braves the hardships of Kentucky’s Great Depression and brings truly magical objects to her people --- books --- in THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK, Kim Michele Richardson's new novel inspired by the brave women of the Pack Horse Library Project. We have 50 copies to give away to those who would like to read the book, which releases on May 7th, and share their comments on it. To enter, please fill out this form by Thursday, May 2nd at noon ET.
THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson (Historical Fiction)
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything --- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome has its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.
Cussy's not only a book woman, however; she’s also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy’s family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she’s going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to read Kim Michele Richardson's bio.
- Click here to visit Kim Michele Richardson's website.
- Connect with Kim Michele Richardson on Facebook and Twitter.
Click here to read more in our Women's Fiction Author Spotlight
and enter the contest.
Bookreporter.com's 14th Annual
Mother's Day Contest: Books Mom Will Love
Mother’s Day is a time to recognize the woman who raised and nurtured us. To celebrate, we're giving you the opportunity to win books for yourself or the special lady in your life in our 14th annual "Books Mom Will Love" contest. From now through Wednesday, May 8th at noon ET, readers can enter to win one of our five prize packages, which includes 11 great fiction and nonfiction titles we think moms will love.
This year's featured titles are:
Click here to enter the contest.
Enter Our Ongoing Bookreporter.com Contests:
"Word of Mouth" and "Sounding Off on Audio"
Word of Mouth Contest:
Tell Us What You're Reading --- and You Can Win Two Books!
Tell us about the books you’ve finished reading with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars. During the contest period from April 12th to April 26th at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of THE BETTER SISTER by Alafair Burke and REDEMPTION by David Baldacci.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the books you write about, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For rules and guidelines, click here.
Click here to enter the contest.
Please note: A new Word of Mouth contest will be up
on Friday, April 26th at noon ET.
Sounding Off on Audio Contest:
Tell Us What You're Listening to --- and You Can Win Two Audiobooks!
Tell us about the audiobooks you’ve finished listening to with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for both the performance and the content. During the contest period from April 1st to May 1st at noon ET, two lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win the audio versions of Sally Hepworth's THE MOTHER-IN-LAW, read by Barrie Kreinik, and D.J. Palmer's SAVING MEGHAN, read by Mary Stuart Masterson and Rebecca Soler.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the audiobook, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For complete rules and guidelines, click here.
Click here to enter the contest.
Please note: A new Sounding Off on Audio contest will be up
on Wednesday, May 1st at noon ET.
We currently are featuring the following guides on ReadingGroupGuides.com:
ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Giffin (Fiction)
In this riveting novel from the #1 bestselling author of SOMETHING BORROWED and FIRST COMES LOVE, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values.
BEYOND THE POINT by Claire Gibson (Fiction)
Three women are brought together in an enthralling story of friendship, heartbreak and resilience. Set at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, this is an amazing debut novel.
LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly (Historical Fiction)
From Martha Hall Kelly, the New York Times bestselling author of LILAC GIRLS, comes LOST ROSES, a sweeping novel inspired by true events that follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.
MIRACLE CREEK by Angie Kim (Legal Thriller/Mystery)
MIRACLE CREEK is a thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we’ll go to protect our families --- and our deepest secrets.
THE MOTHER-IN-LAW by Sally Hepworth (Psychological Thriller/Mystery)
Sally Hepworth's latest is a twisty, compelling novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death.
THE NIGHT VISITORS by Carol Goodman (Psychological Thriller)
This latest thriller from the internationally bestselling author of THE LAKE OF DEAD LANGUAGES and THE OTHER MOTHER is a story of mistaken identities and missed chances, forgiveness and vengeance.
SOMEONE KNOWS by Lisa Scottoline (Mystery/Thriller)
Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent.
Our Latest Poll:
Which of These Notable Books Have You Read,
or Are You Planning to Read, with Your Group?
Which of the following notable books have you read, or do you plan to read, with your group? Please check all that apply.
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ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Giffin
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BECOMING by Michelle Obama
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DAISY JONES & THE SIX by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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THE GOWN by Jennifer Robson
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THE HUNTRESS by Kate Quinn
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THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN by Lisa See
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THE LAST ROMANTICS by Tara Conklin
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THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean
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LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly
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THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM by Marie Benedict
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SOMEONE KNOWS by Lisa Scottoline
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A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult
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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
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None of the above
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