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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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Trade Paperback
Victor Frankenstein, a researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley form an unlikely friendship as first-years at Oxford. Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation…
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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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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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The Thing Around Your Neck
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Trade Paperback
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years”…
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Last Man in Tower
Written by Aravind Adiga
Trade Paperback
“[Adiga’s] terrific first novel The White Tiger deservedly won the Man Booker Prize. This one is even better. The whole of Mumbai comes under his microscope in the tale of a…
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Last Man in Tower
Written by Aravind Adiga
Hardcover
“[Adiga’s] terrific first novel The White Tiger deservedly won the Man Booker Prize. This one is even better. The whole of Mumbai comes under his microscope in the tale of a…
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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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