Libraries
This Month's Featured Guide:
by Pat Conroy
Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by
tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and
finds it among a tightly knit group of high-school outsiders. Surviving
marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings,
hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston,
South Carolina's dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends
will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them
are prepared for.
Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy
at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion
for life and language knows no bounds.
Check out the reading guide here!
Random
House, Inc. Reading Group Guides
Random House, Inc. has hundreds of free guides—search
by category, author, or title!
In addition to our corporate reading group guide directory, visit the individual publishers' websites for a wealth of resources for your book groups:
Bantam
Dell Publishing Group
Bantam Dell offers both discussion guides and Author Chat, a program that
provides book clubs the opportunity to have a featured author participate
in an upcoming meeting via telephone!
If you're interested in Mystery and Thriller titles, visit the Booked for Breakfast site—an online book club featuring Bantam Dell authors and titles for that genre.
Broadway
Books Reading Group Guides
Broadway offers reader's guides for discussions that will prove more productive
and rewarding. Visit today!
Crown
Reading Group Guides
Crown features easy-to-print guides with background information on the
author and questions to get your discussion started. Register your book
group to find out when authors are available to meet (usually via teleconference
or online chat)!
Knopf/Doubleday
Reading Group Center
Knopf/Doubleday offers reader's guides to make your book group's discussions
more valuable and beneficial every time!
New York Review Books
Visit this site for NYRB reading guides to classics and modern day classics—with
other NYRB titles of interest and suggestions for further reading.
Other Press
Reading Guides
Visit this site for reading guides to exciting new discussion-friendly
books from Other Press.
RH Publishing Group
Reader's Circle
With a discussion guide in the back of each book, Reader's Circle books
feature author interviews, discussion questions and author biographies.
The Reader's Circle offers the best of Ballantine and Random House trade
paperbacks, to encompass both literary and commercial fiction and nonfiction,
from groundbreaking first novels to classic works of contemporary literature.
RH Publishing
Group—Del Rey
Del Rey features amazing Science Fiction/Fantasy books and
authors, and would like to hear from you about your SF/F book group that's affiliated with a library!
Vintage/Anchor
Books Reading Group Center
Vintage and Anchor Books invite you to discover today's best selections
for reading groups and access useful resources to facilitate your group
discussion at the Reading Group Center.
High
School Teachers @ Random Teachers' Guides
Teachers’ guides designed to help educators by providing questions that
explore reading themes, test reading skills and evaluate reading comprehension.
These guides have been developed by teachers and other experts in the
writing and education fields. Each book is appropriate for high school
readers. Reading ability, subject matter and interest level has been considered
in each teachers’ guide.
Academic
Marketing Teacher's Guides
Random House Teacher's Guides are designed to help secondary educators
frame in-class discussions through questions that explore reading themes
and comprehension. The guides also offer useful suggestions for further
study and additional thematic resources.
Random
House Children's Publishing Teacher's Guides
Teachers@Random features hundreds of guides for elementary and high school
educators. Includes guides for the Step into Reading Series, The Magic
Tree House, and more.
