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Good Books Lately

The inside scoop on book groups—from how to run a book group to reading recommendations to discussion topics—from America’s first book club consultants.

As book group members across the country have discovered, Ellen Moore and Kira Stevens know everything there is to know about book groups, and then some.  In Good Books Lately, the founders of the country’s first book group consulting company dish out fun, stimulating advice based on their own experiences and those of hundreds of book group members on everything from:


* How to start a group—and keep it going
* How to tell a book by its cover (really)
* How to generate a lively discussion
* Behind-the-scenes anecdotes, dirt, and favorite book lists
* The best and worst book group books
* Book group troubleshooting, no matter what sort of group you belong to
* And much more


If you’re looking for new ideas to spice up your book group, wondering how to join an existing group, or hoping to start your own, Good Books Lately will give you the goods to make your book group experience a rousing, rewarding success.

Ellen Moore, Kira Stevens

Ellen Moore and Kira Stevens are the cofounders of Good Books Lately, Inc., and have helped thousands of book groups nationwide. They are finishing their Ph.D.s (on the cultural phenomenon of book groups) and teach English at the University of Denver. They both live in Denver, Colorado.

St. Martin’s Griffin