Advice on all aspects of running a book club from how to get started to handling tricky situations

These pages include everything you need to start and run a successful and fun book club, including the critical steps you need to take to get your new book club off to a successful start, how to choose books that will stimulate discussion, and trouble-shooting tips for dealing with difficult meeting situations!

• Starting or finding a book club
• Topics to discuss when starting a book club
• The Book Club Health Check
• Why and how to lead a discussion
• Tips on handling difficult situations
• Ideas for choosing books
• Inviting authors to your book club
• DIY discussion guides
• Games to break the ice



• Interviews with Book Clubs:
  There's nothing like hearing direct from other book clubs. Over a number of years we've interviewed a wide range of book clubs, who share what books worked, what didn't and what keeps their group fresh. It's a goldmine of ideas!


• The Inner Lives of Book Clubs:
  This research report gets to the heart of what makes book clubs tick. It combines the findings from two surveys of more than 5,000 people with BookBrowse's 15 years of book club experience and research. The result is an essential guide to all things book clubs. Recommended for librarians, booksellers, publishers, authors and, of course, anyone in a book club!
  
  See our blog for articles based on The Inner Lives of Book Clubs

In addition, BookBrowse recommends books for book clubs by a variety of categories and themes; and we provide a reading guide and excerpt for each book. Find books by:

• Genre
• Title
• Author
• Time period
• Setting
• Many themes
• Top 10 most viewed books, updated weekly
• Best of year lists & more

And online book club discussions