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!


Can't find a Reading Group Guide for your book club's latest selection? To facilitate your meeting, use our Discussion Resources for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry, and you can have lively and engaging discussions no matter which book you choose.

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Kafka on the Shore
Written by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore is structured around the alternating stories of Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old boy who runs away from home to escape an awful oedipal prophecy, and Nakata, an aging and illiterate simpleton who has never completely recovered from a... Read More

The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
For some time, Precious Ramotswe has had the private investigation field to herself. She’s had not just the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency but the only private detective agency in Gaborone, Botswana. But competition arrives when Mr. Cephas Buthelezi—an ex-policeman with... Read More

The Keep
Written by Jennifer Egan
In The Keep, two cousins whose lives have been haunted by an incident of childhood cruelty are reunited at a crumbling, centuries-old castle somewhere in Eastern Europe. Howard, retired from bond trading and fabulously rich at thirty-five, wants to turn the... Read More

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Written by David I. Kertzer
At nightfall one June evening in 1858, a knock sounds at the door of a Jewish family in Bologna, Italy, then part of the Papal States. The dumbfounded couple, Momolo and Marianna Mortara, find a phalanx of police awaiting them. Their... Read More

The Killer Inside Me
Written by Jim Thompson
The Killer Inside Me is a chilling portrait of Lou Ford, the twenty-nine-year-old deputy sheriff of a small town in the oil fields of West Texas. Ford is experiencing a recurrence of "the sickness" that triggered a crime in his youth... Read More



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  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    by Stieg Larsson

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    "Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
    --The Washington Post