Book club questions and discussion guides
Free, original discussion questions written for real book clubs. Each guide has themes to listen for, read-alikes for what to pick next, and an honest place to find the book: your library, Bookshop.org, and Libro.fm.
Latest picks: September 2026
All book clubsBig Little Truths
Ten years on from Big Little Lies, the mothers of Pirriwee are raising teenagers when a mysterious package to the high-school principal sends old secrets and new ones spilling out.
Reese's Book Club, September 2026
Under Story
A grieving mycologist flees to Antarctica after losing her son, where a strange light and her ex-husband's arrival open a door to another version of their lives.
Good Morning America Book Club, September 2026
The Witches of Cambridge
In 1950s Cambridge, two young women at Radcliffe are drawn into a secret society of witches, and into danger, when members start to vanish.
Read with Jenna, September 2026
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All guides A to ZAll Them Dogs
Deep in West Dublin's gangland, two murderous associates find their criminal partnership complicated by a mutual attraction, in a novel that is as tender as it is brutal.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
Black Bag
A struggling actor agrees to spend a term attending university lectures zipped inside a large black bag, as a psychology experiment, in a twisted campus satire about masculinity and being watched.
Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
The End of Everything
On a collapsing Kent coast shadowed by a mysterious alien invasion, a scavenger and his aunt scrape by, in a bleak, oddly compassionate dystopia about the here and now.
Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
Helen of Nowhere
A disgraced professor, known only as \"Man,\" flees to the countryside to remake himself after his marriage and career collapse, in a brief, surreal fable for our times.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
May We Feed the King
The story of a reluctant medieval monarch braids together with that of a modern-day curator staging a historic palace, in a puzzle-box novel that wrong-foots the reader at every turn.
Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
The Palm House
Two old friends spend their long evenings in a Southwark pub, setting the world to rights and quietly navigating grief, in a minimalist novel praised for its extraordinary dialogue.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
The Renovation
When builders turn a woman's bathroom renovation into a magical portal to a working Turkish prison, the surreal premise opens onto questions of exile, activism, and the many forms of confinement.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
The Shadow of the Object
Recovering from surgery in a Mexico City hospital, a woman strikes up a friendship with an elderly German collector of antique toys, in a meditation on grief and the truths found in the margins.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
Booker Prize 2026
See allAll Them Dogs
Deep in West Dublin's gangland, two murderous associates find their criminal partnership complicated by a mutual attraction, in a novel that is as tender as it is brutal.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
Black Bag
A struggling actor agrees to spend a term attending university lectures zipped inside a large black bag, as a psychology experiment, in a twisted campus satire about masculinity and being watched.
Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
The End of Everything
On a collapsing Kent coast shadowed by a mysterious alien invasion, a scavenger and his aunt scrape by, in a bleak, oddly compassionate dystopia about the here and now.
Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
Helen of Nowhere
A disgraced professor, known only as \"Man,\" flees to the countryside to remake himself after his marriage and career collapse, in a brief, surreal fable for our times.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
May We Feed the King
The story of a reluctant medieval monarch braids together with that of a modern-day curator staging a historic palace, in a puzzle-box novel that wrong-foots the reader at every turn.
Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
The Palm House
Two old friends spend their long evenings in a Southwark pub, setting the world to rights and quietly navigating grief, in a minimalist novel praised for its extraordinary dialogue.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
The Renovation
When builders turn a woman's bathroom renovation into a magical portal to a working Turkish prison, the surreal premise opens onto questions of exile, activism, and the many forms of confinement.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
The Shadow of the Object
Recovering from surgery in a Mexico City hospital, a woman strikes up a friendship with an elderly German collector of antique toys, in a meditation on grief and the truths found in the margins.
Booker Prize 2026 longlist
Fredrik Backman
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A failed bank robbery turns into a hostage standoff at an apartment viewing, throwing together a group of anxious strangers who have more in common than they think.
A modern book club favorite
Beartown
In a small forest town that lives for its junior hockey team, a single violent act forces everyone to choose between loyalty to the team and standing with the person harmed.
A modern book club favorite
Britt-Marie Was Here
A fastidious, socially awkward woman in her sixties leaves her husband, takes a job in a dying town, and improbably ends up coaching its ragtag children's soccer team.
A modern book club favorite
A Man Called Ove
A rigid, grieving widower keeps trying to follow his late wife out of this world, only to be repeatedly interrupted by the boisterous new neighbors who need him.
A modern book club favorite
My Friends
A teenager obsessed with a famous painting sets out to uncover the story of the four friends who made it, a story of art, refuge, and a bond that outlasts them.
A modern book club favorite
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
After her beloved, larger-than-life grandmother dies, a precocious seven-year-old follows a trail of apology letters that leads her into the hidden lives of everyone in their building.
A modern book club favorite
Us Against You
With Beartown reeling and its hockey club near collapse, an escalating rivalry with the neighboring town hardens loyalty into something dangerous. (Book 2 of the Beartown trilogy.)
A modern book club favorite
The Winners
Two years after the events that shook Beartown, an approaching storm and a boiling-over rivalry force the town to reckon with its old wounds. (Book 3 of the Beartown trilogy.)
A modern book club favorite