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Join Us for Read Harder Book Groups in December

Need to pad your reading list before vacation? Or maybe get some more ideas for those impossible-to-shop-for-relatives? Come hang out with us this week!

No More Book Club Drama

Welcome to the Dear Book Nerd podcast, a bi-weekly show that answers YOUR questions about life, love, and literature! My special guest cohost this week is the great Jamie Ford. We discuss questions relating to book club difficulties, books for men vs. women, and much more. Don't miss it!

Do Spoilers Matter? And Other Bookish Problems

On this week's Dear Book Nerd, Rita chats about spoilers, scary books, and other bookish problems!

All About Book Clubs!

Welcome to the Dear Book Nerd podcast, a bi-weekly show that answers your questions about life, love, and literature! My special guest host this week is the wonderful and informative Swapna Krishna. Swapna is a veritable book club expert, so I recruited her to discuss four listener-submitted questions about how to start a book club, how to maintain peace among members, how to pick books for meetings (scroll down for some of Swapna's suggestions!), and much, much more. We get into the real nitty-gritty of book clubs, so don't miss it!

How To Use Social Media for Better Book Recommendations

In the height of summer reading season, everyone is looking for the next hot book to read. And they’re all ...

“What Not To Read” — A Different Sort Of Book Club

I named the group “What Not To Read.” The rules were simple. Each member of the book club (this was ...

5 Bookish Merit Badges I’d Be Proud to Pin on My Chest

I wish there were merit badges for readers, so I created 5 of my own. Which would you be able to earn?

The Battle for Book Clubs’ Attention is More Fierce Than You Can Imagine

Jennifer Miller is this month’s Rioter in Residence. Her debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), was chosen as ...

Creative Book Promotion and Jen Miller’s Quest to Set a Book Club Record

As authors become increasingly involved in and responsible for their own book promotion, examples of what not to do abound. ...

Top 5 Tips for a Successful Book Club

  Let’s face it, book clubs are fantastic in theory, but they’re really hard to pull off successfully in real ...