Our lineup this month includes book from authors who are book club favorites, namely Adriana Trigiani and Joanne Harris. One of my favorite books from last summer, The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin, is now out in paperback and it's our newsletter contest giveaway book this month. We have added a guide for a book called Sarah by Marek Halter that is getting buzz as a title similar in feeling to The Red Tent. Trust that I only am touching on a very few titles here; there's lots more this month so keep reading.

We celebrate the 5th Anniversary of ReadingGroupGuides.com this month. Thank you for reading and celebrating this milestone with us. We currently have 1,620 guides available and last month nearly 200,000 unique visitors came to the website. Since we know from our research that book clubs have approximately 12 members in them, this site potentially has an impact on more than 2,400,000 readers each month. As we add guides and develop special features to surround them, we always keep our readers --- and their groups --- top of mind.

We had summer-like weather in the New York area this weekend, which was fabulous. It made me realize that the sun and warm weather truly invigorate me. As much as I enjoy reading indoors, I love reading outdoors even more.

Our newsletter this month is 50% longer as we have added five new feature slots. As a result, I am keeping my opener short and sweet so you can get right to our news.

Milestone last week --- we now have 1,800 book clubs registered at ReadingGroupGuides.com. We are working on some excitng exclusive Registered Book Club offers for the upcoming months so be sure your group is registered.