Reading Group Choices's new owners Barbara Drummond Mead and Charlie Mead have issued the 12th edition of the annual guidebook Reading Group Choices: Selections for Lively Book Discussions, which highlights more than 40 titles that would be ideal choices for reading groups.
Among this year's titles are several that deal with books, including The History of Love by Nicole Krauss ("a tale of irony, imagination and the grand passions of books and love"), The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler ("a sly, witty novel that will thrill Austenites and non-Austenites alike") and Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky (his "fun and true account of [his] adventures gathering abandoned Yiddish books").
There are also several novels based on the Vietnam War: White Ghost Girl by Alice Greenway (which "deals with the sacrifice and solidarity of two sisters growing up in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War") and Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam by Paul Clayton ("the simple story of a naïve innocent boy sent to fight in 1968").
Reading Group Choices 2006 costs $6.95 for a single copy and $25 for a 10-pack. For more information and to order go to Reading Group Choices's Web site or e-mail info@ReadingGroupChoices.com.
Among this year's titles are several that deal with books, including The History of Love by Nicole Krauss ("a tale of irony, imagination and the grand passions of books and love"), The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler ("a sly, witty novel that will thrill Austenites and non-Austenites alike") and Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky (his "fun and true account of [his] adventures gathering abandoned Yiddish books").
There are also several novels based on the Vietnam War: White Ghost Girl by Alice Greenway (which "deals with the sacrifice and solidarity of two sisters growing up in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War") and Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam by Paul Clayton ("the simple story of a naïve innocent boy sent to fight in 1968").
Reading Group Choices 2006 costs $6.95 for a single copy and $25 for a 10-pack. For more information and to order go to Reading Group Choices's Web site or e-mail info@ReadingGroupChoices.com.