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The August Spotlight Group Is…

August 01, 2023 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

August 2023 Spotlight: NDP Alumnae Book Club

 

Our August 2023 Spotlight is keeping tradition alive with decades of alumni!

 

All members attended Notre Dame Prep high school in Towson, MD, and we range as graduates from graduation years 1972-2018! We are continually growing. We now have 35 members!!! We meet at our Alma Mater!

Here’s a recent picture from earlier this year. After we posted this picture, we gained more than 20 new members! We love to welcome new people into our group, and we love the age range –

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Our 2022 Favorite Book Survey Winners Are…

May 08, 2023 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

Thank you to all of the great readers who filled out our 2022 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 independent bookstore, copies of our 2022 annual guide, and a literary tote!

Meet our 2022 favorite books survey winners below (and sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the chance to take our 2023 survey!).

Lunchtime Literacy Society
Raleigh,

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Most Read Books from RGC 2022

March 10, 2023 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our 2022 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 2022.

Has your group read all of these terrific books yet?

Most-Read of 2022

1. The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

One of our recommended books is The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

 

In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts,

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Best of the Best Books 2022

January 31, 2023 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our “best of the best” returns for 2022! We’ve reviewed the end-of-year best book lists 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 2022 that also appear on more than one of the favorite lists from:

BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Bookpage, New York Times, Horn Book, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal,

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Most Popular Books 2022

January 09, 2023 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

We’ve gathered the most popular books in 2022 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 and nonfiction — that caught our readers’ attention from January to December: the most popular books in 2022. Do you remember these great reads? See if they match your own group’s most popular books…

January

One of our recommended books is Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict    One of our recommended books is Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

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2022 Most-Viewed Books on RGC Website

December 05, 2022 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists
Most Viewed Books on RGC website 2022

As we close the book on 2022, and welcome a new chapter in 2023, we want to celebrate the 20 most-viewed books on the RGC website from the past twelve months.

How many of these wonderful books have you read? How many will you add to your to-read list? We are thrilled with the variety of genres (fiction, nonfiction, and young adult), AND format (yay, audio!).

1. The Golden Couple

by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

One of our recommended books is The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

 

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