The Reading Groups Book |
Contents
What is a Reading Group? I | 1 |
Who Belongs to Reading Groups? | 25 |
How Groups Choose and What They Read | 45 |
How Groups Talk | 73 |
The Broader Picture | 103 |
The Pleasures of Reading Together | 125 |
The Reading Group in the TwentyFirst Century | 139 |
Notes | 157 |
Analysis of the Characteristics of 350 Groups | 169 |
Analysis of Titles Read by 284 Groups between | 176 |
Lists of UK Fastselling and Most Popular Books | 190 |
Publications and Guides | 199 |
Reading Lists from Reading Groups 19902001 | 205 |
Further Reading | 229 |
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