Reading Group Guides by Author
Vintage and Anchor Books have designed Reading Group Guides to enhance a group’s reading and discussion of a book. They include a description of each book, questions, discussion topics, and author biographies. From fiction to memoir, award winners to bestsellers, we’ve got books and reading group guides for every interest!
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Things Fall Apart
Written by Chinua Achebe
Trade Paperback
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe’s first novel, was published in 1958. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This stunning work, which John Updike calls "a…
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Harbor
Written by Lorraine Adams
Trade Paperback
The story centers on Algerian stowaway Aziz Arkoun, from his near-death arrival in frigid Boston harbor to his acclimation to life first in gritty East Boston and then in Brooklyn. Throughout…
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The Sister
Written by Poppy Adams
Hardcover
The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group’s discussion of Poppy Adams’s eerie tale of two sisters reunited after nearly fifty years. Set…
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Trade Paperback
Half of a Yellow Sun returns to a critical moment in the modern history of Nigeria, a time shortly after gaining their independence from Britain when, following a massacre of their…
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Purple Hibiscus
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Trade Paperback
Set in Enugu, Nigeria, on the eve of a military coup, Purple Hibiscus tells the story of fifteen-year-old Kambili and her painful awakening from an abusive home life to the beginnings…
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Gob’s Grief
Written by Chris Adrian
Trade Paperback
George Washington–"Gob"–Woodhull and Thomas Jefferson–"Tomo"–Woodhull, are the twin sons of the real historical figure Victoria Woodhull, the nineteenth-century feminist and spiritualist. At age eleven, Tomo runs away from his family home…
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Gob’s Grief
Written by Chris Adrian
eBook
George Washington–"Gob"–Woodhull and Thomas Jefferson–"Tomo"–Woodhull, are the twin sons of the real historical figure Victoria Woodhull, the nineteenth-century feminist and spiritualist. At age eleven, Tomo runs away from his family home…
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The Locust and the Bird
Written by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Hardcover
In The Locust and the Bird, Hanan al-Shaykh recreates the life of her mother, Kamila, in Kamila’s own voice. We enter 1930s Beirut through the eyes of a spirited ten-year-old who…
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