Groups

[close] “We read to know that we are not alone.” ― C.S. Lewis ----------------------- WHAT DO WE DO HERE? This group encourages people to interact with fellow readers who have read or are currently reading a book and give their honest feedback regarding it. We recommend that members look for a buddy to read their book with. It's not limited to one or two members per book, you could get as many members as you want to read the same book. Happy Reading!

[close] This group was created to connect lovers of stories across the internet with their characters and plotlines, dreams and recommendations. Bibliophiles unite, and challenges abound. Come one, come all. All you need to join is a desire to read. Come play with us! Hunt the Serial Killer Sign-Up Animal Whisperers Sign Ups Pizza Delivery Sign Ups! (Replacement Players Only) Space Explorers Sign-ups Global Roadtrip Sign-ups FLOAB Camping SIGN-UPS Check out all of our Challenges HERE

[close] Qui potrai leggere le serie di libri che hai sempre voluto leggere, ma che poi non hai mai fatto. Se ti va, leggeremo insieme anche i classici e le novità dell'anno in corso, e tanto altro! Vi aspetto ^^ 1) elenco delle serie che vorremmo leggere: Elenco su GR http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/113808.Edicola_Libreria_Elenco_serie_gruppo Foglio Excel aggiornato https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YJcJnA6bHHn6K6iwKYKUIpMSPws9qEvjQXiX-Vcc5dw/edit#gid=0 2) elenco dei classici che vorremmo leggere Elenco su GR http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/115102.EDICOLA_LIBRERIA_Elenco_classici_da_leggere Foglio excel aggiornato http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SsGsTKfR5kfk9omgukXQtN6LI1nThR-8xh7U8sOlQ-s/edit#gid=0 3) elenco libri novità 2018 che vorremmo leggere Elenco su GR https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/118376.EDICOLA_LIBRERIA_Elenco_novit_2018 Foglio excel aggiornato http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YVrzga0oc5lG44AbckIrHICPhB4hx8v90Cxu6qMCuu0/edit#gid=0

[close] Cozy Mystery Lovers! If you enjoy lighthearted cozy mysteries, please join us to read the featured monthly books, play some games, and participate in a challenge. Find a comfortable chair, grab a snack and your favorite beverage, and settle in for some cozy fun! This group is not a place for authors to promote themselves and their books. You are welcome in the group if you are participating in group discussions. But promotional posts will be deleted unless posted in the Author/Blogger folder.

[close] No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

[close] The First Group on GR to be only about the games! Join, if: *you like games, *you join a group not only to discuss, *you are creative, *just looking for fun :)

[close] Independent Reading 2019-20

[close] Two best friends who want to read interesting books about anything and everything, because we simply do not read enough these days. Pursuing the dream to build our beautiful, massive libraries.

[close] Book club in Juneau, Alaska, comprising readers who prefer books over wine and gossip.

[close] Stenstrom's AR for Adults 2k19! Please use this group to trade book recommendations and connect with each other!

[close] Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of the most beloved and bestselling sci-fi novels of all time – and soon to be a major motion picture (again)! Whether you’re coming to Dune for the first time or the twentieth, join us for a read-along before the movie premieres in 2020. Amy Ratcliffe will be a moderator. Amy is the author of Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, a host, and an entertainment reporter published at Nerdist, StarWars.com, IGN, and more. Based in Los Angeles, Amy often has her nose in a book. We’ll be taking our page numbers from the brand-new deluxe hardcover edition, available everywhere books are sold on October 1st, 2019, but we’ll include enough details for you to follow along with any edition.

[close] Each year in October, Ventura County Library hosts the One County, One Book program. The 2019 selection is "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean. "The Library Book" chronicles the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role libraries play in our lives. Orlean delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity.

[close] When anyone on the TODAY team's looking for a book recommendation, there's only one person to turn to: Jenna Bush Hager. Jenna will select a book and as you read along, we'll be posting updates right here with thought-provoking conversation starters. We hope you'll engage with the rest of the #ReadWithJenna community to make this book club your own. Our current book is "The Dearly Beloved," by Cara Wall. Click here to get you copy and join us today!

[close] This is a place to discuss the books featured in the Books Of Your Life with Elizabeth podcast. Everyone is welcome. Please share! Subscribe to the audio podcast: Stitcher · Google Play · Spotify · TuneIn See our book picks: https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/623569-books-of-your-life-with-elizabeth?view=covers Suggest books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_group/623569-books-of-your-life-with-elizabeth

[close] A book group for all those who love sci-fi and fantasy. We read three books per month, one from each genre, plus a carefully curated moderators special. Whilst there are plenty of SF/F book groups out there on GR, this one was created with the intention of staying on the smaller side. Our current Books are... Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay [FANTASY], Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman [SCI-FI], Age of Assassins by RJ Barker [MOD SPECIAL] Please no authors promoting their books - we will delete these posts without warning.

[close] The Lady Vaults is our term for the works of women authors from before now science fiction and fantasy history. Often overlooked and brushed aside, we're taking the time to delve into the lady vaults and find some exciting treasures! These are books from at least 15 years ago (2004 or earlier). Each month we read one book from The Lady Vaults and chat about it, learn about the author and their life and works in SFF. The Lady Vaults 100% includes all women, femmes, trans, non-binary and queer identities that care to identify themselves as female/femme in whatever way. The Lady Vaults (feel free to add authors/books) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aQ5zhApHATHZT3AuJhNrDr4MgdjBXjSuiINHTY-YIig/edit?usp=sharing

[close] ~ 2019 Reading Challenge ~ 52 books for 52 weeks. Each week, members read the book of their choice for that week's challenge requirement. ▶︎ CURRENT WEEK A to Z folders are opened for September books Reminders: Please add your book thread to the appropriate A-Z folder following the Title, by Author rule for the title of your post! Feel free to add your yearly list to the 2019 Plans folder. Group spreadsheet : If you like spreadsheets, don't hesitate to add to it your readings for this challenge Polls: The Great ATY Read, [Older polls]

[close] Cozy Mystery Lovers! If you enjoy lighthearted cozy mysteries, please join us to read the featured monthly books, play some games, and participate in a challenge. Find a comfortable chair, grab a snack and your favorite beverage, and settle in for some cozy fun! This group is not a place for authors to promote themselves and their books. You are welcome in the group if you are participating in group discussions. But promotional posts will be deleted unless posted in the Author/Blogger folder.

[close] Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or exploring the world through books, you have come to the right place! ATW80 began in 2009 as a challenge on TNBBC. The separate group was established in 2011. Anyone can join and participate in the challenges or readings at any time. Challenge participation is not a requirement of joining. Anyone who loves reading books from around the world is welcome here. The main purpose of this group is to travel the world through books, experiencing new authors and cultures along the way. Want to read about the world? We have close to 50,000 books cataloged by setting and more are added each week. I personally started reading around the world in 2008. This venture has introduced me to far off lands, fresh viewpoints, and many new authors I might not have discovered otherwise. Here is a record of my travels since 2009: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18478768-diane-s-world-travels-by-book I have worked very hard gathering resources for others to use and coming up with new activities. Please ask permission before copying and please give appropriate credit. The copycatting is getting ridiculous and tiresome. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Suess “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.” ― Irwin Shaw Globe Stand Photo: Daniel Loiselle/Getty Images

[close] A group for fans of all things swords, magic, monsters, and quests! Authors we love include Steven Erikson, Robin Hobb, George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, and more.

[close] This group was created to connect lovers of stories across the internet with their characters and plotlines, dreams and recommendations. Bibliophiles unite, and challenges abound. Come one, come all. All you need to join is a desire to read. Come play with us! Hunt the Serial Killer Sign-Up Animal Whisperers Sign Ups Pizza Delivery Sign Ups! (Replacement Players Only) Space Explorers Sign-ups Global Roadtrip Sign-ups FLOAB Camping SIGN-UPS Check out all of our Challenges HERE

[close] This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to gain or share “underground knowledge”. This is also a place for readers to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Underground Knowledge Series (non-fiction books) by James Morcan & Lance Morcan as well as the Underground Knowledge podcast show.

[close] Officially 10k Members Strong & Climbing!! Building and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and learning as equals. Founded in January 2015, this groups was initially designed as a way for me to support indie authors by reading their work and featuring them on my website. Since then it has evolved into a valuable resource and support system for authors who have or would like to self-publish. With the help of some patient and efficient moderators, Riley Amos Westbrook, BB Wynter, VM Sawh, Christina McMullen, Dwayne Fry, GG Atcheson, Melissa Jensen, Ashley Capes, J. Daniel Layfield, & CB Archer, Support Indie Authors fights to help indie authors rise above the stigma that is self publishing, as well serves to provide a supportive environment for those who want to share experiences, ask for help, and simply find some friends with common goals.

[close] This is the reading club hosted by Colleen Houck, the author of the NYT bestselling series TIGER'S CURSE & the NYT bestselling novel REAWAKENED. Once a month we will be reading and discussing one book that Colleen selects and, if occasion permits, she will host a chat here with the author of the book.

[close] A discussion of women in literary science fiction.

[close] This is the reading club hosted by a group of YA writers called The YA Story Sisters. Once a month we will be reading and discussing one book selected by the group, and when possible there will be a live chat here with the author.

[close] A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the new release book Silent Fear (A novel inspired by true crimes) by Lance & James Morcan. This group can also be an intersection of sorts where Deaf and hearing people can engage and learn from each other.