Reading list planner
Pick books, set meeting dates and notes, then print or download.
Book clubs
Book club resources
Tools and questions for groups that like to talk about what they read. Everything is free, printable and works without an account.
Discussion prompt generator
Mix book-specific, genre and theme questions into a printable sheet.
Compare books
Help your group choose between two or three candidates.
Guides
- How to start and run a book club — Everything a new book club needs to decide, from how many members to invite and how to choose titles, to borrowing library kits, meeting online, keeping discussion balanced, and including members who read in large print, audio or braille.
Thematic collections
amateur investigation
small-town secrets
quaker faith
Printable starter questions for any novel
- Which character's choices did you understand best, and which surprised you? What in the text shaped that reaction?
- Where does the story's point of view limit what we know? How would the book change if a different character told it?
- Pick a scene that felt like a turning point. What changed for the characters, and how did the writing signal it?
- How does the setting work as more than a backdrop? Could this story happen anywhere else?
- What question does the book leave open at the end, and why do you think the author left it open?
- Which line, image or moment would you choose to represent the whole book, and why?
- Did the title mean something different to you at the end than at the beginning?
- If you could ask the author one question about a decision in the book, what would it be?