Since there are so many books and so little time, every Monday I publish a list of good reads to help you narrow down your choices.

If your book club needs a little inspiration, browse these reading lists of tried and true winners! 

• First, I have included a selection of lists that I personally recommend…

Then, scroll down to see what other publications have chosen as their best!

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Also, check out my series on how to run an effective and satisfying book club…

Here’s a series of lists compiled from what I’ve read (and recommend) from the past year…

• Great Discussion Starters for Book Clubs
• Award-Winning Fiction
• Light and Engaging Pleasure Reads
• Dark and Brooding Reads (why your life isn’t that bad…)
• Nonfiction Not to be Missed
• Best Books I Read in 2009
• Best Books I Read in 2008
• 50 States of Literature (which book best represents your state?)       photo credit: gadl

The lists just keep on comin’…

• Time’s Best of 2009
• RA’s Best Mainstream Reads of 2009
• Best Books of the Decade
• NYT Notables for 2009
• Best Uplifting Books
• Amazon’s Best Books of 2009
• Publisher’s Weekly Best 10 Books of 2009
• Best Books of the Millenium
• Best Books for Adolescents
• Best Books for Men
• Best Crowd Pleasing Reads
• New York Times Best Picks for 2008
• 100 Books Everyone Should Have Read in 2008
• LA Times 45 Best Picks for 2008
• Time magazine’s 2007 picks for fiction and nonfiction… 
• Tattered Cover’s recommendations, pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3, pt. 4, and pt. 5
• Top 8 Books for Discussion according to Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust.
• Top 11 Books for Discussion from 2007 from Reading Group Choices.                                                                                 
• The New York Public Library’s Top 25 Books from 2007.
• The 50 Best Books… Ever!
• Book Sense Picks
• NBCC Good Reads 
• Top 15 Hardcover Bestsellers                                                                                                                                                                                                         
•  What Bestselling Authors Recommend
• What to Read on Vacation
• NPR’s Summer Reads!
• Substantive Summer Reads
• Summer Reads Just for Men
• As well as a link to those books that haven’t worked out so well…

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