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Black Lives Matter Reading Recommendations

June 20, 2020 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists
Black Lives Matter reading recommendations

Reading Group Choices works to recommend a wide variety of books across culture and race as well as genre and subject matter. We are proud of our work in this area and are committed to doing more. We believe Black Lives Matter, and embrace the responsibility to use our reach to draw attention to books by Black authors for readers of all ages.

Books are a place to begin a conversation, expand the way we see ourselves and others, and take action to improve our communities and world.

Find our reading list of work by Black authors below,

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Book Group City Tour: Helena and Bozeman

June 12, 2020 Book Group City Tour, Bookmark
Helena Montana State Capitol, credit Steven Cordes

We head to two historic cities in Montana, Helena and Bozeman, for our latest Book Group City Tour!

Montana encompasses some of the most beautiful terrain in the western United States. The Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, Glacier National Park. From hiking on Sleeping Giant Mountain to admiring the historic architecture in Reeder’s Alley, Montana’s capital, Helena, boasts a wide range of attractions for audiences as diverse as its landscape. Meanwhile, about an hour and a half southeast of Helena lies Bozeman. The city boasts the Museum of the Rockies (with its famous Siebel Dinosaur Complex),

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Book a Day: June Reading List & Author Chats

June 08, 2020 Book a Day, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists
Reading Group Choices Book a Day Reading List and Author Chats

Our Book a Day program heads into summer with June picks for your reading enjoyment and morale!

We’re posting a new or classic book recommendation each day to boost your book intake, with absorbing reads to occupy and entertain. Some of our Book a Day selections also feature Facebook Live events with authors. See our June recommendations below!

Even though your book groups might not be meeting right now, we are lucky to still have ways to communicate. Share the news and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a dose…

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Reading Group Choices Interview with Antoine Laurain

June 04, 2020 Author Interviews, Book a Day, Bookmark
Reading Group Choices interview with Antoine Laurain

Author Antoine Laurain discusses his bestselling novels, including The Red Notebook and Vintage 1954, which have gained international appeal.

For his interview with Reading Group Choices, Antoine talks about writing famous figures into his novels, why technology doesn’t make for a good love story, what a stranger would think about his apartment, and his role as ambassador of French charm…

Reading Group Choices: Your books present a diverse variety of characters in terms of gender, age, occupation, social and economic level. Do certain perspectives come to you more naturally or attract you more than others?

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The June Spotlight Group Is…

June 01, 2020 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups
The Reading Group Choices June 2020 Spotlight

June 2020 Spotlight: Bufò Bookstore in Italy

Our June Spotlight is a book group coordinator in Turin, Italy!

Hello! My name is Sara and I’m a book group coordinator in an Italian bookshop. I read Italian novels, stories from the 20th century and contemporary fiction with my book groups. We are around 15 people in each group and usually we meet together once a month. The bookshop is our home, but during this particular moment we obviously use video calls to talk about books. You can find more info about our work by visiting the bookshop website www.libreriabufo.it or on my literary blog www.blufiordaliso.it.

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Our 2019 Favorite Book Survey Winners Are…

May 29, 2020 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

Thank you to all of the great readers who filled out our 2019 Favorite Books survey!

Every year, Reading Group Choices surveys book groups and readers to compile our annual list of Favorite Books. And every year we randomly choose winners who receive a gift certificate to their local bookstore and a package of RGC-recommended books for their entire group!

Meet our 2019 favorite books survey winners below (and sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the chance to take our 2020 survey!).

The Festival Fans book group is a winner of our favorite books survey.The Festival Fans
Green Valley,

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