Bloomsbury Essential Guide to Reading Groups

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides

by Susan Osborne

How to Set up and Run A Successful Reading Group; In the last few years, the reading group phenomenon has swept the country and more and more people are becoming interested in either becoming a member of one or setting up their own reading group. But how do you go about finding a reading group in your area, or if you are involved in setting one up, how should it be run, what books should be selected? The Bloomsbury Essential Guide for Reading Groups tells you all you need to know - how to set one up; readers' guides covering 50 books - 40 novels and 10 non-fiction; synopses to aid a quick choice of a book for discussion; themes - each theme is accompanied by a brief introductory paragraph, followed by a simple list of titles, all of which are referenced back to the readers' guides; resources - an annotated list of useful magazines, books, websites etc; suggested further reading - a list of 50 additional, highly recommended titles for discussion. The Bloomsbury Essential Guide for Reading Groups will be indispensable to all those who want to establish or are already involved in a reading group.

Genres: Nonfiction, Books About Books

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2002

Reviews

[Monzenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A five-star resource. It even has a few pages about setting up reading groups. Of course the meat and potatoes is the background and study guide for the 75 books it selected, which is a good selection (I was surprised an Ian Rankin got in the list).