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Today I thought I'd share some more of our 10th Anniversary Contest Results.  Here are the top 10 classic books for book club (in alphabetical order):

Whether it is better to find an existing book club that's taking new members or start a new one? Okay - that's enough of my play on Shakespeare... but you get the idea.  If you're not currently in a book club but would like to be that is probably the first question you ask.  And though your gut may be telling you that you want to start a new book club, your head may be saying "No, no... too much work... too much responsibility.... I don't know how... etc."

This past weekend I got to be a part of the 2nd annual Boston Book Festival.  (I was there in the wind manning a booth as part of my job for Better World Books).  While there I learned about ther Once City One Story project and thought I'd share it with you.

Here's another list we got from our 10th Anniversary Contest.  These were some of the most unexpected selections you submitted as your "favorite discussion books".  And these were surprising to say the least. Perhaps each on it's own not sooo strange - but all together - you'll admit - definitely strange!

As most of you know, we're celebrating our 10th Anniversary here at RGG!  And as part of that we ran a contest all summer where we asked you to send us your favorite discussion books of all time.  We had over 12,000 responses which we scoured to pick out the 10 most popular titles.  Without further ado, here they are:

Today's guest blogger is Bernhard Schlink, best known for his book THE READER.  He has a new book out that may prove to be just as impactful as THE READER and promises to stir up some excellent conversation for your book club.  It's called THE WEEKEND and deals with terrorism from a different point of view - that of the terrorist and his friends and family as they gather upon his release from prison.  In today

I've been to a fair number of author events in my day from luncheons to bookstore readings to schmancy book launch cocktail parties and the more I think about it the more I realize I have rarely been to one of these events where there weren't other authors in attendance showing their support. 

In today's post, regular contributor Heather Johnson (Age 30+ ...

In today's post, regular contributor Denise Neary shares her review of the new movie It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on the book of the same name.  Consider reading the book and then doing an outing with your book club to catch the movie. Let’s hear it for a movie true to the book it is based on!

Earlier this week the Masters in Education website released a list of the Top 50 Book Clubs to Inspire and Learn From and guess who made the list?  ReadingGroupGuides.com of course! We are proud to be a part of such a great list whose other members include: