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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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20 Most-Read Books from RGC 2022

March 01, 2024 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our 2023 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?

**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, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author.

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Welcome to Reading Group Choices 2023

January 31, 2024 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Welcome to Our New Edition!

Reading Group Choices 2023 is now available for purchase (eBook and paperback) on our website! The new edition includes enjoyable, unique, and challenging fiction, nonfiction, and young adult titles that we chose to inspire thoughtful and lively conversation. Thank you to all of our readers who inspire us to find and recommend new books each year. We listened to your requests and searched for titles from around the globe.

Happy reading and discussing!

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Our Picks for 2023:

Fiction

Abyss by Pilar Quintana
An American Beauty by Shana Abé
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Book Spy by Alan Hlad
The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
Chasing the Black Eagle by Bruce Geddes
Cocoon by Zhang Yueran
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak
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Best of the Best Books 2023

January 05, 2024 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our “best of the best” returns for 2023! 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 2023 that also appear on at least one of the favorite lists from:

BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Bookpage, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Washington Post,

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Most Popular Books 2023

January 04, 2024 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

We’ve gathered the most popular books in 2023 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 2023. Do you remember these great reads? See if they match your own group’s most popular books…

January

1.

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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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