Our wonderful book group selections for November are:

Full Moon – Jim Butcher

Every Witch Way but Dead -Kim Harrison

Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris

With a bit of luck some of the authors will also be joining us for these discussions!

Kim Harrison, author of The Hollows series of books featuring Rachel Morgan, has joined the site to answer questions on her book Dead Witch Walking and The Good the Bad and the Undead.

The Good, the Bad and the Undead is one of our featured books for October, so if you are in that book group then get your questions posted!

We are very honoured to have Charlaine Harris join our site today! Ms Harris is the author of several series, the most recent of which is The Southern Vampire Series featuring telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse.

Please make Charlaine welcome as you see her around the site. She will be answering questions and joining in the book discussions for the Sookie series

What a bad blogger I am LOL

It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just that I’ve had too much to do and haven’t had much time to write anything just for fun.

The forum has been revamped and now resembles a library layout.  I don’t know why I didn’t think if this in the first place since I AM a freaking librarian LOL but there you are!

Anyway, it’s much better and now I have 4 lovely mods to help keep the place running and those naughty members in line!  We have just reached 6000 posts in roughly 3 weeks which is really great.

Now, I have to redesign the main website to match the forum.  (Initially it was the other way round and that didn’t work too well).  This is a helluva lot more work unfortunately and means lots of changes, but I hope it will be pretty cool when it’s done.  It just takes a lot of time to do.

Anyway, more later, gotta get back to the redecorating!

I guess this is a recommendation in a way. Book group members across the United States reflected on all the books they read and discussed during the year and these surfaced as the titles most often mentioned. This list represents the voices of more than 4,000 book group members who answered the survey.

The following books are the most discussed at book groups, going back to 2002.

Top Book Group Favorites of 2004

1) TIE — The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)

2) Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harcourt)

3) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)

4) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador USA)

5) Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (Ballantine)

6) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)

7) The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Picador USA)

9) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Vintage)

10) The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (Harvest)

11) East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Penguin)

12) Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Plume)

13) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Vintage)

14) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Back Bay)

15) My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)

16) No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor)

17) Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House)

18) Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks)

19) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (Vintage)

20) Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Grove)

Top Book Group Favorites of 2003

1) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)

2) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)

3) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Picador USA)

4) Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

5) Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harcourt)

6) Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Plume)

7) Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Grove)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)

9) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little Brown)

10) Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Knopf)

11) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador USA)

12) No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor)

13) Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (Ballantine)

14) Atonement by Ian McEwan (Anchor)

15) Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier (Vintage)

Top 20 Book Group Favorites of 2002

1) The Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Plume)

2) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Picador USA)

3) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little Brown)

4) Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Vintage)

5) Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Grove)

6) Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine)

7) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (HarperPerennial)

John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)

9) Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland (Penguin)

10)The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperPerennial)

11) Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (Ballantine)

12) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Warner & HarperCollins)

13) Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani (Ballantine)

14) The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (Ballantine)

15) Jim the Boy by Tony Earley (Back Bay)

16) The Jew Store by Stella Suberman (Algonquin)

17) Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund (HarperPerennial)

18) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)

19) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Vintage)

20) Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson (Ballantine)

This month we will have 3 books to choose from. We decided to take the 3 books with the most votes and offer them as the books of the month. The poll officially closes tomorrow but these books are miles ahead of the others, so…

These books are:

The Good, the Bad & the Undead – Kim Harrison (book 2 in series)
Storm Front – Jim Butcher (book 1 in series)*** plans have been announced for a new movie/series***
Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris (book 1 in series)

You as book group members, can read one, two or all three of these books and join in the discussion. There will be a separate hosted discussion running for each book. There will be key questions and topics for discussion as well as anything else that arises from general discussion.

All three authors have guaranteed some kind of participation in the discussions and have /will be registering on the site!