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Do you want to show off your bookshelves? Random House has created a Facebook group --- "I have more books than Facebook friends" --- to coincide with the publication of Ragtime author E.L.

To encourage her daughter, then in fifth grade, to read more, Denise Neary began a mother/daughter book club. In today's post, she shares what has kept the Washington, D.C.-area group going strong for five years...and counting.Having trouble getting your child reading? Consider starting a book club.

From Ft. Worth to Finland, book clubs are a mainstay in the news, including a Boston group that has far-reaching effects and an Ontario club that let a four-legged friend choose a reading selection. Also in this month's round-up are profiles of two authors and book club favorites --- Jeannette Walls and Kris Radish, who is appearing tonight at Border Books in Sacramento, California.The Buffalo News: Glass Castle a Window on a Troubled Childhood

The news media is abuzz about the books Barack Obama plans to read while on vacation in Martha's Vineyard:• Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman• John Adams by David McCullough• Lush Life by Richard Price

Mark your calendars! The third annual National Reading Group Month is taking place in October. Sponsored by the Women's National Book Association (WNBA), events will take place across the country in association with the organization's 10 chapters --- including one in Charlotte, North Carolina, where a chapter was launched earlier this year.

The latest Bookreporter.com Bets On... pick is a debut novel: Heather Gudenkauf's The Weight of Silence. After the disappearance of two young girls, one of whom is selectively mute, family secrets surface. I read this book in one day, drawn in by the Prologue and riveted until the last page.

Book club facilitator and RGG.com contributor Esther Bushell has been busy turning the pages, and she offers her thoughts on some of the books she has read this summer. She also shares some terrific news: the launch of her website, LiteraryMatters.net.

Krish Radish takes us behind the scenes of a writer's life --- and into her mind --- in today's guest blog post. Her latest novel, The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters and friends. Is Emma Lauryn Gilford on the verge of a breakdown...or a breakthrough?

ReadingGroupGuides.com contributor Joshua Henkin, who regularly meets with book clubs to discuss his novel Matrimony, was interviewed on NPR's Word of Mouth about his "literary road show."