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Welcome to our new edition! 

Reading Group Choices 2018 is now available for purchase (eBook and paperback) on our website! We hope you enjoy the variety of fiction, nonfiction, and young adult titles we have recommended this year. Thank you, readers, for your continued support, interest, and passion for books. Have fun choosing your books for the year! Happy reading and discussing!

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Our picks for 2018

Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar
The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passerello
As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Bang by Barry Lyga
Beck by Mal Peet
Behave by Andromeda Romano-Laz
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
The Best of Us by Joyce Maynard
The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
The Chilbury Ladies’

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A Century of Reading

Who says time travel is difficult? Yes, there are incredible novels and memoirs being published right now—every month—that will inspire great book club discussions. But don’t forget about the great titles from the past that still endure and even hold up to the best books of today.

Reading Group Choices invites your group to go back in time, whether 10 years or 100, for your next pick! Below you’ll find one book from every decade over the last century. Some may be familiar, and some unexpected. Either way, each stands on its own as a compelling read and offers a window into the culture and time that produced it.

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Wait. Press pause. Put down whatever you’re doing (except reading this!).

Wouldn’t you like a cup of coffee or some tea? Go ahead: Eat something sweet along with it, a pastry or cookie. Most of all, say hello to a friend, a neighbor, the person in the next cubicle, the parent on the playground. Take a few minutes to relax and catch up.

The concept is called fika (fee-ka), and it’s practiced in Sweden at least once or twice a day—a moment to stop, take a break, have a hot drink and a nibble,

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Great Pairing For Reading Groups

Pairing a classic title with a more contemporary read can expand and enhance the reading experience. Check out these books that belong together for twice-as-nice reading—and discussing.

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa, Emma Sweeney, and Margaret Atwood

Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses.

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