This Book Club Guide gave me some great ideas of book suggestions I can bring to my work book club the next time we meet! It included a good variety of different titles, and even sections at the end with options for teen book groups and Spanish-language book groups. Each book covered in the main section had a plot summary and 5 discussion questions, so if my book club selects any of these options I will already be prepared for our conversation! I'm especially excited about Ties That Tether, The Midnight Library, Transcendent Kingdom, and Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything.

First of all the cover is super cute and caught my attention. Secondly I really liked that there was a pretty good variety included and that the covers were shown. The reader's advisory before the sample and questions was also helpful. I wasn't interested in many of these, but that's the good thing about samplers, they help you figure that out without having to purchase the books. I did enjoy the young adult mentions in the back and wish they would have included reader questions as well. A clickable table of contents would have been nice though.

This is my first time browsing one of these brochures. It appears they are available on Penguin Random House's Library Marketing site, which is a great resource for book club questions and full kits!

Volume 21 is 36 pages from cover to cover and includes separate pages for 29 different books. Both fiction and nonfiction adult titles are included. Each of these has:
- a Readers' Advisory (pull quotes, accolades, other notable info)
- About the Book (plot summary)
- 3-6 Discussion Questions

The brochure concludes with pages listing:
- 8 titles for teen book groups
- 4 Spanish language titles
- "Looking for more" random recommendations

I love the simplicity of this publication and think it would make a great resources for not only librarians but also book sellers and everyday readers just looking to for the right picks for their clubs.

If I had one addition I would have liked included, it would be the publication date of each book featured.

I loved getting to look through the titles in this book club brochure. There were so many great picks, many of which I was previously unfamiliar with but am now eager to read.
The discussion questions for each book were great and the guide even included suggestions for Spanish book clubs, nonfiction titles, and YA readers.
I also highly recommend getting a Book Club Guide if one is offered for the title your club selects.

Many thanks to Penguin Random House Library Resources and NetGalley for the advance copy.

Thank you so much for this handy guide to suggested titles and discussion questions--very valuable to those in book clubs and those considering forming their own books clubs.

This title will definitely be welcomed by book club members and also by those who read on their own and want to deepen their enjoyment of what they are reading. For each title, there is a synopsis and some questions to consider. Books included are The Opium Prince, The Hierarchies, Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything, A Knock at Midnight, The Butterfly Lampshade, The Smash-Up, The Children’s Blizzard (see my review on my site), In the Garden of Spite, Transcendent Kingdom, The Midnight Library, The Center of Everything, Ties That Tether, The Prophets, Miss Benson’s Beetle (see my review on my site), Agent Sonya, A Burning, Mexican Gothic, The Thursday Murder Club, The Book of Two Ways (see my review on my site), Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, A Room Called Earth, What’s Left of Me is Yours, The Smallest Lights in the Universe, Friends and Strangers, The Great Offshore Grounds, Memorial, Caste, When Apricots Bloom, Glamour Girls, The Brother Years, Ready Player Two, Sophomores, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, Deadly, Wider Than the Sky, and Perestroika in Paris. There are also several titles in Spanish.

There are so many kinds of books here, both fiction and non, some by authors more well known to me than others. All look absorbing with their various plots, settings, characters, real life dilemmas and complexities. Readers are sure to go away with long lists and stacks for their TBR piles.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own.