Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women's Fiction

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An indispensable guide for anyone who runs or participates in a book group, this title provides the structure and fun facts needed to examine the genre of women's fiction. Women's fiction covers numerous topics of importance in the lives of womenfriendship, love, personal growth, and familial relationships. For this reason, the genre is a hotbed of engaging subjects for book group discussions. Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women's Fiction brings together information on over 100 women's fiction titles, providing everything a book group needs to encourage focused, stimulating meetings. Reading Women marshals information that has been, up to this point, either nonexistent or scattered in book club guides. Readers will learn the difference between women's fiction, romance, and chick lit, as well as why these genres provide a rich trove of discussion topics for book groups. Specific entries cover titles from all three genres, offering an author biography, a book summary, bibliographic material, discussion questions, and read-alike information for each book. An additional 50 titles suitable for book group discussions are listed with brief summaries.

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Any book-group leader who ever despaired of finding a discussable romance title at the suggestion of a member need fret no longer. Milone Hill has compiled an admirable list of women's fiction, chick lit, and romance titles suitable for discussion. . . . A welcome addition to the canon of book-group resources and especially helpful for book groups looking for cheerier selections. * Booklist *

Author Bio

Nanci Milone Hill is director of the Boxford Town Library, Boxford, MA.