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​Book Club Resources

Discover how to join or start a book club or learn how to make your book club the best it can be.

 
 

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​Book Clubs at Phoenix Public Library

Many Phoenix Public Library locations offer book clubs for customers to join. 

Please take a look at our calendar to see when and where they are and to see what everyone's reading.


Online Book Clubs

Online Book Club is an Internet community for book lovers. The site includes book reviews and recommendations as well as interactive book discussions. Readers will read both classics and new releases.

Oprah's Book Club is a popular book club that can have online or in-person participation in an organized book club. Take a look at Oprah's Book Club 2.0, the newest phase of her book club or the classic Oprah's Book Club for ideas of what to read.

SJP Picks at ALA's Book Club Central is an online book club where self-professed book-lover Sarah Jessica Parker chooses the book.

Spaghetti Book Club is a website where kids can write book reviews and read book reviews by other kids.

Goodreads is a reader's social networking site where reviews can be written, read and shared. This online community includes an annual reading challenge, a reader-created booklist section, author events and online book clubs including one for teens.

Bookclubz is a tool for book clubs to coordinate membership, schedule meetings, track RSVPs, send messages, rate books, create a library, and get inspiration for future book club reads.

Resources for Your Book Club

How to Start a Book Club
Don't know where to start? Here is a beginner's guide to a successful book club from the start.

What's Next
This is a great site when you want to read a series and you want to read the books in order.  Super easy to use!

Stop, You're Killing Me
A website to die for ...if you love mysteries. 

Reading Group Choices
There is a ton of information on this site!  Great selections for book clubs and ideas for forming a successful book club or making a book club more interesting and fun.

Goodreads
Lets readers sign up for a free account. Customers can  get recommendations on what to read based on their reading history.  You can also see what your friends are reading once they sign up.  You can search for books by subject.

Booklist Online
More than 130,000 book reviews for librarians, book groups, and book lovers—from the trusted experts at the American Library Association.

Bookspot
Free resource that includes bestsellers, book awards, book reviews, online books, first chapters, and reading lists.

Modern Library's Top 100
Includes the top 100 best (fiction and non-fiction), the top 100 non-fiction and the 100 best novels.  A bit dated but great to peruse if you are looking to read some forgotten classics.


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