Sign up for our newsletters to receive our Best of 2024 ezine!

Book club recommendations & reading guides for books beginning with "R".

Recommended for Book Clubs by Title,
All With Discussion Guides

59 reading guides for book titles starting with "R"

Page 1 of 8


Browse by: Author |  Title  |  Genre |  Setting |  Time Period |  Theme

Select your view:
Order books by:
  • The Rabbit Factory
    The Rabbit Factory
    by Marshall Karp
    Hardcover: Apr 2006
    Paperback: Mar 2007
     
    Bringing a fresh duo of cops to the thriller set, The Rabbit Factory is both suspenseful and satiric; a taut mystery wrapped in sharp, comedic prose.
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
  • Radical Evolution
    Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
    by Joel Garreau
    Hardcover: May 2005
    Paperback: May 2006
     
    Taking us behind the scenes with today's foremost researchers and pioneers, Garreau reveals that the super powers of our comic-book heroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country -- ...
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
  • The Radium Girls
    The Radium Girls : The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    by Kate Moore
    Hardcover: May 2017
    Paperback: Mar 2018
     
    The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger.
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
  • Rain Reign
    Rain Reign
    by Ann M. Martin
    Hardcover: Oct 2014
     
    Hearts will break and spirits will soar for this powerful story, brilliantly told.
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
  • Rain Village
    Rain Village
    by Carolyn Turgeon
    Hardcover: Oct 2006
     
    Rain Village casts a fabulous spell, pulling us into a world of mystery and possibility where love, friendship and loyalty might either destroy or set one free.
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
  • Raising Cain
    Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
    by Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson Ph.D.
    Hardcover: Apr 1999
    Paperback: Apr 2000
     
    Powerfully written and deeply felt, Raising Cain will forever change the way we see our sons and will transform the way we help them to become happy and fulfilled young men.
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
  • Raising Wrecker
    Raising Wrecker : A Novel
    by Summer Wood
    Hardcover: Feb 2011
    Paperback: Sep 2012
     
    Elegant, warm-hearted and utterly unsentimental, Wrecker is a stunning and deeply moving novel about motherhood and mistakes, survival and hope. (Published as Wrecker in hardcover)
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
  • Ravelstein
    Ravelstein
    by Saul Bellow
    Hardcover: Apr 2000
    Paperback: May 2001
     
    "No contemporary of ours is more consistently brilliant and more defiantly risky than Saul Bellow." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
    Summary & Reviews

    Book Club Questions

    Critics' Consensus:

    Readers' Opinion:
Select your view:
Order books by:

Advice Main Page  |  Starting a Book Club  |  The First Meeting
Leading Meetings  |  Difficult Meetings  |  Choosing Books  |  Inviting Authors
DIY Reading Guides  |  Book Club Games

Reading Guides  |  Themed Reading Lists  |  Online Discussions  |  Blog  |  White Paper

Top Picks

  • Book Jacket: The Missing Thread
    The Missing Thread
    by Daisy Dunn
    The fabric of ancient history is stitched heavily with stories of dramatic politics, conquest, and ...
  • Book Jacket: Model Home
    Model Home
    by Rivers Solomon
    Rivers Solomon's novel Model Home opens with a chilling and mesmerizing line: "Maybe my mother is ...
  • Book Jacket
    The Frozen River
    by Ariel Lawhon
    "I cannot say why it is so important that I make this daily record. Perhaps because I have been ...
  • Book Jacket
    Prophet Song
    by Paul Lynch
    Paul Lynch's 2023 Booker Prize–winning Prophet Song is a speedboat of a novel that hurtles...

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket
The Story Collector
by Evie Woods
From the international bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop!
Book Jacket
In Our Midst
by Nancy Jensen
In Our Midst follows a German immigrant family’s fight for freedom after their internment post–Pearl Harbor.
Who Said...

It is a fact of life that any discourse...will always please if it is five minutes shorter than people expect

Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!

Wordplay

Big Holiday Wordplay 2024

Enter Now

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.