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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A Year in Provence
Written by Peter Mayle
Summer after summer, the Mayles had fled London in search of two or three weeks under the Mediterranean sun, promising themselves that one day they would make Provence their home. "We had talked about it," Mayle writes in A Year in... Read More

The Year of Magical Thinking
Written by Joan Didion
A spare, lucid, and remarkably moving examination of the year following her husband’s sudden death just before their fortieth anniversary, this is the story of Didion’s search for answers, for relief, and above all for the chance to change the course... Read More

You Are Not a Stranger Here
Written by Adam Haslett
A manic father who plans to build a bicycle that recycles its own energy, a teenage boy who seeks out physical abuse, a therapist who needs to listen to his clients more than they need to talk to him, a schoolboy... Read More

You Don't Love Me Yet
Written by Jonathan Lethem
The story is as simple as any three-chord song: the rise and fall of a band so evanescent that it dissolves almost as soon as people realize it exists, but in the course of telling it, the author produces a sly... Read More

You Shall Know Our Velocity
Written by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers’s first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, turned the conventions of the memoir inside-out. It questioned, parodied, stretched, and subverted the rules for writing about one’s life in a book that ultimately lived up to its tongue-in-cheek title... 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