Book Club guides for reading groups, libraries, and bookstores

Book Club Guides

Whether you’re looking to recommend a book to a customer or patron or you’re in search of a pick for your own book club, we’ve got you covered. Our publishers have created helpful reading group guides for their most book club-friendly titles. Click on the cover images below to access downloadable reading group guides.

Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition

Paul Harding

The Bear

Andrew Krivak

Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

by Natalie Hodges

The Sojourn

Andrew Krivak

Maria La Divina

Jerome Charyn

To & Fro

Leah Hager Cohen

Like the Appearance of Horses

by Andrew Krivak

Distant Fathers

Marina Jarre, trans. Ann Goldstein

Flight of the Wild Swan

by Melissa Pritchard

Your Hearts, Your Scars

Adina Talve-Goodman

The Boy In His Winter

Norman Lock

American Meteor

Norman Lock

The Port-Wine Stain

Norman Lock

Her Here

Amanda Dennis

How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate Change

Harriet Shugarman

The Wreckage of Eden

Norman Lock

The Spiritual Rebel

Sarah Bowen

Feast Day of the Cannibals

Norman Lock

A Fugitive in Walden Woods

Norman Lock

You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Virgie Tovar

Something Like Breathing

Angela Readman

Moss

Klaus Modick, tr. David Herman

We Were Witches

Ariel Gore

Villa of Delirium

Adrien Goetz, tr. Natasha Lehrer

Bob Stevenson

Richard Wiley

Sergeant Salinger

Jerome Charyn

A Loaded Gun

Jerome Charyn

Retablos

Octavio Solis

Though I Get Home

YZ Chin

The Restless

Gerty Dambury, translated by Judith G. Miller

The Iliac Crest

Richard Wiley

The Measure of Darkness

Jerome Charyn

Not One Day

Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan

Rain Inscription

H. L. Hix

Radical Reproductive Justice

Edited by Loretta Ross, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, Lynn Roberts, Pamela Bridgewater

Places of the Heart

Colin Ellard

Since I Laid My Burden Down

Brontez Purnell

The Surfacing

Cormac James

And The Spirit Moved Them

Helen LaKelly Hunt

One Turn Around the Sun

Tim Seibles

Translation as Transhumance

Mireille Gansel, translation by Ros Schwartz

A Good Day for Seppuku

Kate Braverman

Areas of Fog

Will Dowd

The Lives They Left Behind

Darby Penney & Peter Stastny

August

Romina Paula, translated by Jennifer Croft

Between a Wolf and a Dog

Georgia Blain

Go Home

Edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Hitler, Stalin, and I: An Oral History

Heda Margolius Kovály

Luz Bones

Myrna Stone

Mr. Either/Or

Aaron Poochigian

Yellowstone Standoff

Scott Graham

The Attempt

Magdaléna Platzová, Translated by Alex Zucker

Marriage on the Street Corners of Tehran

Nadia Shahram

Blood of the Dawn

Claudia Salazar Jimenez

Operation Yellow Star

Maurice Rajsfus

Jerzy: A Novel

Jeremy Charyn

Wolf Season

Helen Benedict

Edge of Morning

Jacqueline Keeler

The Talker

Mary Sojourner

Red Rock Stories

Stephen Trimble

Behind the Moon

Madison Smartt Bell

The Last Weynfeldt

Martin Suter

Aging With Wisdom

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

The Latehomecomer

Kao Kalia Yang

When the Welfare People Come

Mary Don Lash

The Chicken Who Saved Us

Kristin Jarvis Adams

Swallowing Mercury

Wioletta Greg

Hungarian Art

Ava Forgacs

Three Tearless Histories

Erich Hackl

The Redemption of Galen Pike

Carys Davies

Cold Blood Hot Sea

Charlene D'Avanzo

The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers

Fouad Laroui

Escape Home

Charles Paterson

The Ghetto Swinger

Coco Schumann

Hell's Gate

Laurent Gaudé

Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

Sarah Kaminsky

Low Heights

Pascal Garnier

A Narrow Bridge

J.J Gesher

The Party Wall

Catherine LeRoux

The Life-Writer

David Constantine

The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation.

Glenn Harcourt

The 6:41 to Paris

Jean-Philippe Blondel

You Should Pity Us Instead

Amy Gustine

Antiquity

Michael Homolka

Black Wave

Michelle Tea

The Cosmopolitans

Sarah Schulman

The Doulas

Mary Mahoney, Lauren Mitchell

Solarium: Poems

Jordan Zandi

The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat

Amelia Martens

Before

Carmen Boullosa

No Fascist USA!

Hilary Moore and James Tracy

The Book of Me: A Children’s Journal of Self-Discovery

ed. Alain de Botton, illust. Ben Javens