How to Start and Run a Book Club

Starting and running a book club, selecting titles and discussion question suggestions.

This site provides some useful tips on getting your own group started.

Oprah offers useful guides for starting your own book club.

A place to find a book club or list your own or to invite an author to speak at your next meeting

Find 10 tips for starting and running a successful book club.

A UK resource with information on how to start and run a good book club. Includes features and articles written by professional journalists and experts.

This site tracks the 100 most popular book club selections according to their book clubs.

Looking to invite an author to your book club? Check out this online directory for book clubs and reading groups.

This is an opinionated guide of great books to read and discuss that have been published by independent presses as well as major publishers.

A comprehensive list of reading guides which also includes a “no guide – what to do” section with generic questions by genre.

Offers summaries, criticism, biographies, lesson plans, questions, and quizzes for over 1000 literature titles.

An excellent annotated list of sites which contain literary criticism. Organized by author, title, and time period. Strong emphasis on English language authors.

Includes chapter summaries, theme reviews, and character profiles to some of the best literature in the English language.

Study guides prepared by Professor Paul Brians of Washington State University for the use of students in his classes.