Book Club Ideas

After asking about starting an animals’ rights club and getting nothing but negative comments, I’ve decided everyone else will probably react the same way over the internet. So I’m wondering if I should start a book club at school. I already know most teens don’t read, but I’m sure at least around ten would be willing to join. I would already know what to do, read a book once a month, house, blah blah blah. I was just wondering if anyone had some good suggestions of books or book websites. I already have the really popular series like Harry Potter, Twilight, Gossip Girl, The Clique, The A List, etc. But I’m looking for more books. I already have the websites pickapoppy.com, lb-teens.com, penguins.com, and simonsays.com. Please & thank you.
hey thanks.

btw ralph33, i can do one over email anyways, so yeah, i’d love that!

anything by Sarah Dessen, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, Ellen Hopkins, or Laurie Halse Anderson – Titles at the 1st link below.

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
13 Reason Why by Jay Asher
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Looking for Alaska by John Green

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Other Boleyn Girl and others by Philippa Gregory
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, and Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke
Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull
Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Storms of Vengeance by John Beachem
Wake and Fade by Lisa McMann
The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
The Giver and sequels by Lois Lowry
A Great and Terrible Beauty and sequels by Libba Bray
Howl’s Moving Castle
Pendragon series by DJ MacHale

anything by Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, Ursula K. LeGuin, Tamora Pierce, Donita K. Paul, Mercedes Lackey, Chris D’Lacey, Garth Nix, Terry Brooks, Raymond Fiest, Gene Wolfe, George RR Martin, etc. – Titles at the 2nd link below.

I am 13 and three of my friends and I started a book club . We are all trying hard to think of books that only one or none of us has read, but its really hard! We are all pretty advanced readers, and we all like the genres of science fiction, adventure, fantasy, historical fiction, and anything else around these lines . If you could make any suggestions for books we should read? Thanks!!
Oh and please state the genre with it
Ok sorry but please dont recommend Twilight or anything vampire or Harry Potter…we have read them all

Hia
– Jesse

(fan) Sabriel by Garth Nix
(sci-fi) Time Machine by H. G. Wells
(fan) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
(fan) Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
(sci-fi) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
(sci-fi) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
(class) I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
(fan) The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
(sci-fi) Hitch Hiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams
(class) Through the Looking-Glass by L. Carroll

—————– Happy-Reading !!

Any book clubs online that I could join? I’m bored and need things to discuss things other than politics right now.

Have you tried Shelfari? It’s a site that lets you list all the books that you’ve read, and you can discuss them with other members too. It’s free to join, you should check it out and join. Here’s the link: http://shelfari.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8007472.stm

There must be millions of you out there, because everytime Chavez mentions a book or gives one as a gift to Obama, the particular book shoots up on the Best Seller list on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

So who is a member of the Hugo Chavez book club and did you already get :"The Open Veins of Latin America…" by Eduardo Galeano? Is the book any good? It’s all sold out in my area.
For all the rhetoric and criticism the right wing, the GOP and the Bush Admin, it seems Hugo Chavez is a well-read person.
For all the rhetoric and criticism the right wing, the GOP and the Bush Admin, laid upon this guy, it seems Hugo Chavez is a well-read person.

Hilarious, but it kind of makes you want to read the book just to see what a guy like him reads

I need a metaphor for a black lesbian book club. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I’m not sure just yet what a black lesbian book club is like just at the moment, but what you’re seeking is a simile, not a metaphor. A simile is a comparison: "something is like something else".
A metaphor substitutes words for others to suggest an analogy between them.

Simile: "A black lesbian book club is like a sisterhood of the mind’s eye."

Metaphor: "They are a sea of affable volumes."

Page 6: Mysterious
Page 7: Rockhopper
Page 11: Pickle
Page 21: Migrator
Page 25: Yarr
Page 40: Waterfall
Page 52: Deck
Page 79: Rockhopper
Page 80: Penguin
Page 177: Puffle

That’s all I could find, hope it helps.

I’m an avid sci-fi/fantasy reader and I would like to join some sort of book club where I can talk to other readers about the books I’ve read or get suggestions for future books to read. I’ve never been in a book club before. So, I don’t know any good ones.

For purchasing books, the Science Fiction Book Club has good prices. Discussion groups tend to be geographically limited for obvious reasons (a lack of teleportation devices LOL), but NYC and Los Angeles have groups I’ve been to. If you have a favorite author or two, check yahoogroups, as there are on line discussion groups for quite a few SF authors, and I’ve found them to be a lot of fun. There is also Changingthetimes.net, for those interested in alternate histories and parallel universes. And several groups for Star Trek. Babylon 5 has a group, and on and on. I hope to see you someday on one of the groups I’m in.

I need to start reading more Islamic books, but don’t know were to start. I think joining a book club would help me, plus it is nice to discuss them after reading them

This is a gr8t one
http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/discussion_list.asp?boardID=55660

I currently have about 5 people and am waiting on a couple more. So do you have the meetings once a month? Is that enough time for everyone to read the book — I mean we do all have jobs. And then I guess we take turns hosting it? How do we decide who hosts and when? Anyone who ever started one up and has any advise, I’d appreciate it. What did you do that didn’t work and what did you do that did?

Also, being that we’re just getting started and we don’t know who has read what, I thought we should start with a newly released book? Any suggestions on good newly released books?

If and when you decide to start your own group, your first task is to recruit members. Think about how many people you want to participate. The size will likely be dictated by the place where the group meets. If you plan on hosting meetings in your own living room, for example, you may find it difficult to accommodate more than seven or eight members. On the other hand, if your group is too small, discussion may suffer, especially if you don’t have perfect attendance at each meeting. Many book clubs recruit solely from friends or coworkers, but you don’t need to stop there. Posting flyers at your local public library is an excellent way to foster diversity in your members and meet new people.

Once you have a solid group of people together, it’s time to set some guidelines for your group. It is a good idea to do this at your first meeting. How often will the group meet? Most book clubs typically meet once a month and discuss one book per meeting. Decide on a process for choosing the books you will read. Be sure to set a consistent time and place for meetings, so that you do not have to go through the process of scheduling each meeting. Make it clear to members that they are expected to plan their schedule around your set time, not vice versa. While the living room is the obvious choice for a place to meet, you should also consider such places as a library, restaurant, or community center.

Once you have recruited members and established guidelines for your book club, it is time to focus on the actual discussions. If you are serious about having quality discussion and are willing to invest some money in your book club, you may want to consider hiring a professional leader to moderate meetings. Not only will a leader help insure that a fulfilling, balanced conversation takes place, but he or she will also help your group decide which books to read (or even choose the books for you). A good way to find a discussion group leader would be to contact your local public library or college.

If you choose to not hire a professional leader, you should be prepared to guide the discussion yourself. An excellent starting place for a particular book would be a reading group guide. If no guide is available for the book you are currently reading, you may wish to turn to some general questions and topics for discussion.

To be sure, planning and running your own book club can be a challenge. But if done properly, your book club will prove to be a rewarding and fulfilling experience for you and your peers.

this is the artical i used to start my book club we just read "sharp objects" it was a really good book
Hope this helps

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