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Our 2023 Favorite Book Survey Winners Are…

March 27, 2024 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

Thank you to all of the great readers who filled out our 2023 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 2023 annual guide, and a literary tote!

Meet our 2023 favorite books survey winners below (and sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the chance to take our 2024 survey!).

Carolyn Merritt Hill County Retreat Book Club
San Antonio,

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The March Spotlight Group Is…

March 01, 2024 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

March 2024 Spotlight: City of Brea Book Club

Our March 2024 Spotlight is celebrating eight years together!

I started the book club here at the City of Brea when I began working here in 2016 with a handful of fellow readers as a way to make friends and of course read.  We have grown from a group of 3-4 to a fun, loud, boisterous group of 16.  We typically meet in the employee break room during lunch once a month.  We have tried a few different ways of choosing our next book and have found that genres work best for us. 

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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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The November Spotlight Group Is…

November 07, 2023 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

November 2023 Spotlight: The RaRa Sisters Book Club

 

Our November 2023 Spotlight is celebrating 23 years as a book club!

The RaRa Sisters Book Club is the November 2023 Spotlight Group

 

The RaRa (Readers Anonymous) Sisters Book Club was created in 2000. The picture is from our Roaring 20s party that celebrated our 20 years together. It’s crazy to believe that we have been together for 23 years! We’ve had many adventures together and have read nearly 150 books. Together, we have supported one another through many of life’s events: some happy, some scary, and some tragic, but we’re always there for one another.

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The October Spotlight Group Is…

September 22, 2023 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

October 2023 Spotlight: Bookies With Class

 

Our October 2023 Spotlight is celebrating 20 years as a book club!

Bookies With Class is our October Spotlight Group

 

Our book club began 20 years ago with six women and has now grown to 12, ranging in age from 60 to 80+. (We took this photo a couple weeks ago to celebrate our 20 years together!) The Bookies have chosen to remain small in number, consisting of family and friends. We meet each month and take turns being the hostess, usually in our home, although during COVID, we continued to meet via Zoom.

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