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Internet Resources for Book Groups

Below are links to interesting and informative websites specifically designed for book groups. Most sites have recommendations and on-line guides for many books.  Some of the sites also have suggestions for starting a group.  If you find a good site that we missed, and would like to see it added, email us.   

General Reading Group Websites

www.readinggroupchoices.com

A general site, created by Paz & Associates, a national consulting organization. Contains recommendations, resources, etc.

www.bookbrowser.com/Resources/ReadingGroups.html

Great page of links to book groups and other sites of interest to book groups in a wide variety of areas.

www.readinggroupguides.com/

A newsletter for book groups, containing many on-line guides and other resources.

Publisher Book Group Sites

www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/
www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/

Recommendations from Random House presses. Contains reading group companion guides for many books. In our opinion, this is the best publisher website.

www.picadorusa.com/picador/rgg/rgg.html

Recommendations and reading group guides from Picador Press

www.henryholt.com/
www.henryholt.com/readingguides/index.htm

Home page and reading group pages for Holt, Owl Books and Picador Books. Has suggestions and on-line guides.

www.bookclubreader.com

A Book Club newsletter produced by Simon & Schuster, with recommendations, guides, spotlights on book groups, etc.

www.penguinputnam.com/
www.penguinputnam.com/guides

Home page, recommendations, and guides from Penguin Putnam Publishers. Also has a guide to how to establish a reading group

www.harpercollins.com

On the home page, point your clicker to ‘Reading guides,’ and select your option. Has guides in listed in fiction, non-fiction and classics. Also has a guide to establishing a group.

www.twbookmark.com/books/reading_guides.html

Book group guides and recommendations from Little Brown, AOL Time Warner. Can browse books with guides by title, author or category.

www.groveatlantic.com

On-line reading group guides for Grove Atlantic Press. Click on book picture on home page.

www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/fiction.shtml
www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/nonfiction.shtml

Lists of guides in fiction and non-fiction from Houghton Mifflin Trade division.

www.wwnorton.com/trade/rgg.htm#allguides

A list of reading group guides from W.W. Norton.

Other Publisher Websites.

www.algonquin.com

www.curbstone.org

www.harcourt.com

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