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  1. How to Start a Book Clubhttps://litlovers.com/start-a-book-club

    Starting a book club? Just follow our 10 basic steps to good books, good talks, and good eats. 1. What kind of book club? First, decide on a club orientation: somewhere between highly social...and seriously academic. If you make this decision at the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: LitClub
  2. How to Discuss a Bookhttps://litlovers.com/run-a-book-club/lead-a-book-club-discussion

    Our ideas can help you lead a discussion, find helpful resources, and be a smart participant. How to lead a discussion 1. Toss one question at a time out to the group. Use our LitLovers Resources below to help you with specific questions. 2. Select a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: LitClub
  3. Perfidia (Ellroy)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/perfidia-ellroy

    Perfidia James Ellroy, 2014 Knopf Doubleday 722 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307956996 Summary It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  4. Visit from the Goon Squad (Egan)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/visit-from-the-goon-squad-egan

    A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, 2010 Knopf Doubleday 288 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307592835 Summary Winner, 2011 Pulitizer Prize Winner, 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Moving from San Francisco in the 1970s to a vividly imagined New York...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  5. Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/wisdom-of-crowds-surowiecki

    The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations James Surowiecki, 2004 Knopf Doubleday 336 pp. ISBN-13: 9780385721707 Summary In this fascinating book, New Yorker...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Non-Fiction
  6. I Almost Forgot About You (McMillan)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/i-almost-forgot-about-you-mcmillan

    I Almost Forgot About You Terry McMillan, 2016 Crown/Archetype 368 pp. ISBN-13: 9781101902578 Summary The inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning. In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  7. Patron Saint of Liars (Patchett)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/patron-saint-of-liars-patchett

    The Patron Saint of Liars Ann Patchett, 1992 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 356 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061339219 Summary St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  8. Last Bus to Wisdom (Doig)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/last-bus-to-wisdom-doig

    Last Bus to Wisdom Ivan Doig, 2015 Penguin 464 pp. ISBN-13: 9781594632020 Summary The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  9. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Kleeman)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine-kleeman

    You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Alexandra Kleeman, 2015 HarperCollins 3045 pp. ISBN-13: 9780062388674 Summary An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  10. Turn of the Screw (James)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/turn-of-the-screw-james

    The Turn of the Screw Henry James, 1898 100+ pp. (Varies by publisher.) Summary One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts Miles and Flora, two children who see ghostly apparitions. Their young governess, believes the specters morally...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  11. We Were the Lucky Ones (Hunter)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/we-were-the-lucky-ones-hunter

    We Were the Lucky Ones Georgia Hunter, 2017 Penguin Publishing 416 pp. ISBN-13: 9780399563089 Summary An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separated at the start of the Second World War,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  12. Falconer (Czapnik)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/falconer-czapnik

    The Falconer Dana Czapnik, 2019 Atria Books 288 pp. ISBN-13: 9781501193224 Summary New York, 1993 Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  13. Reading Guideshttps://litlovers.com/?view=category&id=127

    Book Club Discussion Questions Our 3,500 Reading Guides include Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Author Bios, and Plot Summaries. Use the SEARCH box (title or author) If you don't find a specific guide for a book, take a look at our Discussion Tips...

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  14. Find a Reading Guidehttps://litlovers.com/reading-guides

    Book Club Discussion Questions Our 3,500 Reading Guides include Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Author Bios, and Plot Summaries. Use the SEARCH box (title or author) If you don't find a specific guide for a book, take a look at our Discussion Tips...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Reading Guides
  15. Whistling Season (Doig)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/whistling-season-doig

    The Whistling Season Ivan Doig, 2006 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9780156031646 Summary "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  16. Patrick Melrose Novels (St. Aubyn)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/patrick-melrose-novels-st-aubyn

    The Patrick Melrose Novels (Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk) Edward St. Aubyn, 2012 Picador : Macmillan 688 pp. ISBN-13: 9780312429966 Summary For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  17. Sweet Thunder (Doig)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sweet-thunder-doig

    Sweet Thunder Ivan Doig, 2013 Penguin Group USA 320 pp. ISBN-13: 9781594487347 Summary A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West In the winter of 1920, a quirky...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
  18. Storie Delle Sorellehttps://litlovers.com/featured-clubs/storie-delle-sorelle

    LitClub: Storie Delle Sorelle Baltimore/Annapolis, MD STORIE DELLE SORELLE is a... a) high-end Italian shoe designer b) Mediterranean seafood dish c) book club in Maryland. —The Answer is C— So, like, do you ever wear designer shoes? Uh...no, they're...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Featured Clubs
  19. This House of Sky (Doig)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/this-house-of-sky-doig

    This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind Ivan Doig, 1979 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 336 pp. ISBN-13: 9780156899826 Summary Memoir. This work introduced a major modern author to the reading public. Ivan Doig grew up along the rugged rims of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Non-Fiction
  20. Work Song (Doig)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/work-song-doig

    Work Song Ivan Doig, 2010 Penguin Group USA 304 pp. ISBN-13: 9781594485206 Summary An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical settings yet. "If...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: interGen support
    • Category: Fiction
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