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The January Spotlight Group Is…

January 04, 2024 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

January 2024 Spotlight: Book Club Girls Sparta

Our January 2024 Spotlight is celebrating five years together!

Book Club Girls Sparta from Sparta, NJ, celebrated a milestone anniversary in November 2023: five years together as a book club! We held our annual celebration out at a local restaurant and continued our tradition of a raffle and gift exchange. All year long we meet and discuss one or two books. During the first three months of the year, we meet on Zoom and often have an author join us.  The rest of the year, one person leads the monthly discussion of their choice of book,

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The December Spotlight Group Is…

December 07, 2023 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

December 2023 Spotlight: The Forestry Book Club

Our December 2023 Spotlight loves to read and discuss environmental books!

 

The Forestry Book Club is made up of current and former staff from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Forestry Division. We’ve been meeting virtually for the past four years after discovering that many of us love reading and talking about what we’ve read! Membership in our group is extremely flexible and changes for each meeting, with two staff members serving as organizers and facilitators. We include a meeting announcement in our internal newsletter,

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2023 Most-Viewed Books on RGC Website

December 01, 2023 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists
Most Viewed Books on RGC website 2022

As we close the book on 2023 and enter a new reading era in 2024, we want to highlight the 20 most-viewed books on the RGC website from the past twelve months.

How many of these fabulous titles did you read this year? Which ones will you add to your TBR pile? We love that this year’s RGC reading wrap-up includes a variety of genres (fiction, nonfiction, and young adult) in addition to formats (audiobooks alongside traditional print books)!

1. The Second Life of Mirielle West

by Amanda Skenandore

 

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Book Group City Tour: Twin Cities

December 01, 2023 Book Group City Tour, Bookmark
Minneapolis Book Group City Tour

Next stop is the Twin Cities as Reading Group Choices continues our Book Group City Tour in Minnesota!

The reputation of the Twin Cities as a literary hub is well known. Consistently ranked among the most literate cities in the country, boasting a large community of independent publishers including Coffeehouse, Milkweed, the University of Minnesota Press and Graywolf, and supported by a lively center for writers and writing, The Loft, which hosts the annual Wordplay literary festival … readers (and writers) have many reasons to feel at home here in Minneapolis and St. Paul!

So where to go to find other readers when you want some bookish conversation?

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Great Group Reads 2023

November 15, 2023 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists, WNBA Great Group Reads
The Woman's National Book Association presents its list of Great Group Reads for National Reading Group Month

Reading Group Choices is pleased to share the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Great Group Reads 2020 list, part of their National Reading Group Month initiative!

This annual month-long celebration provides an opportunity for reading groups worldwide to celebrate their accomplishments and plan for the future. It’s also a perfect time to join or start a reading group! Every October, WNBA organizes events nationwide and announces an annual list of book selections for reading groups: Great Group Reads.

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