October Is National Reading Group Month!
Please visit the National Reading Group Month website for lots more details and useful information, too.
And be sure to join us at WNBA Charlotte and celebrate with us at our Bibliofeast Book & Author Dinner!
The all new 2012 GREAT GROUP READS list of recommended books is here! Check out this outstanding list of recommended books for book clubs and reading groups — see below. Several of our WNBA Charlotte members were on the selection committee, and they can tell you how good these books are, too.
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National Reading Group Month Selects
2012 GREAT GROUP READS
The Absolutist by John Boyne
An Age of Madness by David Maine
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan‐Philipp Sendker
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
Boleto by Alyson Hagy
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Equal of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
The O’Briens by Peter Behrens
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
The Right-Hand Shore by Christopher Tilghman
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeannette Winterson
2012 Official NRGM Sponsors
Gold Sponsor / Premier Sponsor
HarperCollins Publishers (2007 Founding Sponsor)
Harper, Harper Paperbacks, Harper Perennial, Amistad, Ecco, William Morrow, William Morrow Paperbacks
Silver Sponsors
Ingram Content Group
Other Press
Friends of National Reading Group Month
Bloomsbury USA
Red Hen Press
SONY ReaderTM Store / SONY Style
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WNBA Charlotte has produced a brochure with tips on how to have a good book club or reading group. AND we have our own lists of recommended books to offer you here. These are the materials from 2011. We’ll have new 2012 materials for you soon. However, you can use our information all year round!
Book Club Advice: Tips and Tricks
Recommended Reading 2011 (PDF)
Recommended Reading 2010 (PDF)
Recommended Reading 2009 (PDF)
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