How to Choose a Book for a Book Club

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Julia Drake, and I'm going to talk about how to choose a book for a Book Club. In general if you don't have a specific idea, and you want to know what's out there, if you want something contemporary, I'd start with the New York Times Best Seller list and just go through it and see if something strikes your fancy. Or if you want something more rare and unknown, go to your local library and talk to a Librarian. You know, they usually find books that are not on the best seller list but that are really good too. So then, if you want to go to something most specific, a specific genre, or specific author, it's really great to either contact associations that are related to, you know, the subject matter. Or if you're looking for something more specific and you want to see, you know, if, you know, a book may be has been read before in a reading group and it was successful, go to "readinggroupchoices.com" and there you can search by subject matter, or by author, or, you know, there's just different types of ways, you know, to look for the book that you want and you're going to get a review of reading groups about the book and also, you know, a sample of discussion questions to start you off with. But if you are hosting a book club, it's, it is on you to decide on, I'd say the, you know, the general area. I think you want to pick, you know, maybe four to five books that you want to discuss, and then maybe conduct a survey with your group members to find out, you know, which one to discuss first."