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.
Latest picks: July 2026
All book clubsCountry 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
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
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
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All guides A to ZAnxious People
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
Women's Prize for Fiction 2026
See allDominion
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 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
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)
Fredrik Backman
See allAnxious People
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