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The July Spotlight Group Is…

July 17, 2022 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

July 2022 Spotlight: Athena Readers Book Club

Our July 2022 Spotlight has used the power of technology to stay connected!

The Athena Readers Book Club started in 2016 at the Johnston Branch of the San Antonio Public Library. The “founding members” voted on a title for the group and started with the Veronica Roth’s Divergent series. Over the years we have enjoyed suspenseful mysteries, gory murder thrillers, a couple inspiring biographies and contemporary fiction. We have been hooked on several authors such as Stephen King,

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Most Read Books from RGC 2021

July 08, 2022 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our 2021 survey results are in! And along with our readers’ favorite books of the year, we have a list of the most-read titles specifically from Reading Group Choices 2021.

Has your group read all of these terrific books yet?

Most-Read of 2021

**1. Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict**

One of our recommended books is Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict

In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train.

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The March Spotlight Group Is…

February 28, 2022 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

March 2022 Spotlight: The Telltale Book Club

Our March 2022 Spotlight created a challenge to promote reading among their members!

The Telltale Book Club started meeting in July 2019 with an amazing group of women from Oklahoma. We are a fun and interesting group as many of us are Labor and Delivery/Postpartum nurses. We average 16 participants in our monthly discussions and we meet every 4 weeks.

We have been meeting virtually via Zoom since March 2020. We really miss meeting in-person, but Zoom has provided us the ability to discuss our monthly book,

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Best of the Best Books 2021

January 10, 2022 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our “best of the best” returns for 2021! We’ve reviewed the end-of-year best book lists out there and narrowed them down into one reference guide.

Overwhelmed by what to read from the past year? We’ve gathered the fiction, nonfiction, and young adult titles we recommended in 2021 that also appear on one (or more) of the favorite lists from:

BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Women & Children First, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal,

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Most Popular Books 2021

January 10, 2022 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

We’ve gathered the most popular books in 2021 for a look back at the year! In each of our monthly newsletters, we share the top two most-viewed titles on the Reading Group Choices site for that month.

Here are the titles — a mix of fiction, nonfiction, and young adult — that caught our readers’ attention from January to December: the most popular books in 2021. Do you remember these great reads? See if they match your own group’s most popular books…

January

1.

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The November Spotlight Group Is…

October 27, 2021 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

November 2021 Spotlight: Meg’s Book Group

Our November 2021 Spotlight dedicated their group name to one of their members in her honor

Meg’s Book Group was formed by a group of teachers and other staff from Lincoln Elementary School in Madison, WI, decades ago. Soon, parents wormed their way in and we’ve been meeting steadily ever since with some new members joining while others left. Our group is now 8 regular members mostly in our late 50s and early 60s.

Over the years, we’ve become good friends and share more than just book discussions.

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