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What nonfiction books are reading groups discussing? In a recent ReadingGroupGuides.com newsletter we asked you to tell us --- and did you ever. We received more email responses than for any question we've asked to date. Well over 100 titles were mentioned. Here are the top 15 (in alphabetical order), including established reading group favorites along with lesser-known books. Tomorrow we'll share comments from group members on specific titles.

Today's guest blogger, novelist and book club member Monica McInerney, talks about how her life as a writer has changed her as a reader.

Of the four stories in this round-up of reading group-related news articles, three of them are about...men's book clubs, which we don't hear about all that often. Wrapping things up is a story about a New York State book club marking an impressive milestone --- 40 years.Boston Globe: Where the Guys AreFind out what's happening at a few men's book clubs in Massachusetts.

Here on the ReadingGroupGuides.com blog we've interviewed Lisa See, Kate Jacobs, Julie Metz and other authors. Now we're doing something a bit different.

Nancy Thayer's latest novel, Summer House, is the story of Nona, Helen and Charlotte --- grandmother, mother and granddaughter --- who gather in their family's vacation home on Nantucket, only to have their idyllic lives threatened by a hurricane of secrets.

Each month novelist and creative writing professor Joshua Henkin shares behind-the-scenes stories about his meetings with reading groups to discuss his novel Matrimony. Today he answers a question that he has been asked by book club members. Read on to find out whether he prefers e-readers or printed books.

Carol Cassella's novel Oxygen is the story of Marie Heaton, an accomplished Seattle anesthesiologist involved in an operating room disaster. As her life and career fall to pieces, she uncovers the fault lines of responsibility, betrayal and truth that can divide us, and discovers that conviction and love --- like oxygen --- can sustain us.

Today RGG.com contributor Jamie Layton raises a terrific issue --- inspiring kids to read over the summer. She has come up with an interesting list of books for her 14-year-old son, ones that will make great reading and discussing for everyone, regardless of age.

Marjane Satrapi is the author of the memoir Persepolis, in which she recounts growing up in Iran in the 1980s. As our review on Bookreporter.com says,"Those were particularly turbulent years for Satrapi's native country of Iran, encompassing the overthrow of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (the Shah of Iran), the installation of the Islamic Republic, and the war with Iraq.

Yesterday we shared some of the activities, trips and other things reading groups are doing differently during the summer months. Here are some more of their plans...INVITE OTHERS