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A Random House site with resources for those in a book club or those who want to start one. You may find the collection of discussion guides useful: this is organised by author and has particularly strong discussion questions for Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust and Salman Rushdie.
At BookCrossing, you can register any book you have on the
site, and then set the book free to travel the world and find new
readers.
Leave it on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on
vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at
the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next
is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel
next. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed
on from person to person.
This hugely popular site started from a book of the same name. Here you’ll find information about books, reviews by real readers and opportunities to discuss your reading among a plethora of other goodies.
Are you the kind of person whose love for books extends to an obsession with cataloguing, sorting and re-sorting your personal library? Then LibraryThing is for you. It is an online library-cataloguing service that will not only let you catalogue all your books quickly (by entering ISBN numbers, or for the truly obsessive you can buy one of their scanners) but also compare your own book collection to those of others.
Selections for lively book discussions, book club favourites and other suggestions for good book group chat can be found here.
Self-styled 'on-line community for reading groups.' Interviews with writers, book-related features and more.
Those readers seeking up-to-the-minute reviews, interviews and other information will find Ready Steady Book a useful place to visit. This site calls itself 'an independent book review website devoted to reviewing the very best books in literary fiction, poetry, history and philosophy', and has plenty of resources for those wanting to keep their finger on the literary pulse.
The literature development and delivery agency for the West Midlands region of the UK, headquartered in Birmingham.
Is a project of Writing West Midlands. The main festival runs every October in Birmingham, UK with other activities, from poetry slams to book launches, occurring on various dates.
A very comprehensive not for profit public interest website focused on encouraging and helping kids to read.
Professor Lynette Hunter has created many installations and performance pieces exploring the creation, circulation and reception of print and oral texts, including ‘Roget Falls in Love’ which debuted at our project conference, autumn 2007.
The US National Endowment for the Arts sponsors more than 500 OBOC events across the country. The website provides information about sponsorship, the selected books and events across all 50 states.
Each year five celebrity panelists discuss five Canadian books
in the bid to see which book will be the one that all Canada
Reads.
Information about the books featured in the Richard and Judy Book Club, and access to accompanying podcasts.
Everything you need to know about Bristol's Great Reading Adventure - information about the book and the author, historical details, contributions from readers, and resources for readers and teachers. The .program also has an entry in Wikipedia.com
Liverpool Reads has been running since 2004. You'll find information on the current format and ideas about how to get involved, along with other useful downloads like newsletters and teaching resources.
The University of Western Ontario puts on a mass reading event for the town of London in southern Ontario, Canada.
Access current and past sites for One Book AZ here. There's also a site especially for visually impaired readers.
Read all about the latest selection and activities in Chicago.
It wasn't the first but it may be the best known "One Book" event
in the English-speaking world.
Do a search for “One Book” under the Events and Programs tab.
Readers in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and surrounding townships in Ontario gather together for this community-wide reading event.
This is the website for one of many university programs in which students, staff and faculty across the disciplines engage with one book to explore ideas that cross institutionally created boundaries.
If you are interested in the growing phenomenon of college and university One Book programmes, you'll find this site helpful. Collated by Barbara Fister, it lists all the programs that have taken place or that are currently running in colleges across the US.
Details about competitions, events and book discussions around Vancouver can be found here. There's also information on activities for children.
The Library of Congress supports a database that enables you to search for One Book programs across the country.
This programme, which previously went by the title "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book", is hosted by the Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library. You can read here about the featured book and the featured author.
Moving Manchester 'explored creative writing from Greater Manchester that has been informed and influenced by the experience of migration.' Visit this website to learn about the AHRC/Arts Council/Black Arts Alliance-funded project...and to discover some wonderful writing!
INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) is a research cluster of academics based in Canada (but including people from the UK and the US) who are researching digital technologies and reading. There is some fascinating material on their site for anyone who's ever wondered how technology is changing the way we interact with text and information.
'The Reader' in Liverpool, UK, is not only a wonderful print journal about reading, the team also run this dynamic website and are the driving force beyond 'Liverpool Reads.'
The Reading Experience Database is a huge project designed to gather together evidence of 500 years of reading. You can participate, either by sending in descriptions of reading from any historical period between 1450 and 1945, or by volunteering to work through letters, diaries, annotated books and so on, to record evidence of particular reading practices.
A grassroots effort to foster public events in all libraries in the USA on or around September 11. September Project events are not about September 11; they are events of reflection, discussion, and dialogue about the meaning of democracy, the role of information in promoting active citizenship, and the importance of literacy in making sense of the world around us.
A UK based organization that highlights and funds libraries and reading programs.