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, never Amazon.
A Founding Mother
The life of Abigail Adams, told in her own voice, as she raises a family and helps build a nation while her husband is away shaping it.
Reese's Book Club, July 2026
A Pair of Aces
In 1930s New York, a pioneering Black prosecutor and a powerful madam form an unlikely alliance to bring down mob boss Lucky Luciano.
Reese's Book Club, June 2026
Country People
A California academic family decamps to rural Vermont for a year, where the folklorist father tumbles into a world of eccentric locals and the blurry line between logic and magic.
Good Morning America Book Club, July 2026
Dolly All the Time
An overstretched single mom returns to her seaside hometown and strikes a fake-dating deal with the town's wealthiest heir, only for the arrangement to start feeling real.
Good Morning America Book Club, June 2026
Little Wonder
A migrant mother and her piano-prodigy son are separated in a crowded Beijing train station and spend years trying to find their way back to each other.
Oprah's Book Club, June 2026
The Children
Two siblings written into their late mother's beloved fantasy series confront the dark reality behind the magical childhood her readers imagine.
Read with Jenna (Today), June 2026
The Shampoo Effect
An ambitious young writer falls for a small-town golden boy and lands inside his tight lifelong friend group, until a pregnancy and her own pen blow the whole thing open.
Read with Jenna, July 2026
Dominion
In a Mississippi Delta town ruled by a powerful preacher and his golden-boy son, two women watch the family's polished image crack, with devastating consequences.
Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist
Flashlight
After a father vanishes on a beach in Japan, leaving his young daughter the sole survivor, the mystery reverberates across four generations and the hidden history of one Korean family.
Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist
Heart the Lover
A college love triangle among three literature students burns bright, falls apart, and returns to haunt them decades later.
Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist
Kingfisher
A creative-writing academic becomes obsessed with an older, famous poet, and his devotion curdles into a question of how much of another person one is allowed to take.
Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist
The Correspondent
Told entirely in letters, the story of a sharp, solitary retired lawyer who, as her sight and her certainties fade, finally faces the relationships and the loss she has long kept at arm's length.
Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 (winner)
The Mercy Step
In 1960s Bradford, a fiercely observant girl narrates her own childhood in a hard immigrant household, finding refuge in books and plotting her way toward a life of her own.
Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist
Taiwan Travelogue
In 1930s Japanese-ruled Taiwan, a Japanese novelist and her Taiwanese interpreter travel the island eating their way through it, as attraction and the weight of colonial power pull against each other.
International Booker Prize 2026 (winner)