Discussion guides

We know how useful a discussion guide is for your book club meeting, so here you’ll find some recent guides provided by publishers. Free to download, you can use them to help choose your next book and guide your discussion.

Keep checking back, as we’ll be adding new guides to the list throughout the year.

Already chosen a book that doesn’t have a guide? Use our icebreaker questions for questions to help get the conversation flowing.

Guides are ordered A-Z by author surname.

• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
• You Could Be So Pretty by Holly Bourne
• Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
• Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks (part of the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist reading guide pack)
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
• Maame by Jessica George
• The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
• Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Shadow Child by Rachel Hancox
• The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
• House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Foster by Claire Keegan
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Guide 1 or Guide 2
• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (part of the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist reading guide pack)
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (part of the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist reading guide pack)
• Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
• When You Lose It by Rosy and Gay Longworth
• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris (part of the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist reading guide pack)
• Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (part of the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist reading guide pack)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Pod by Laline Paull (part of the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist reading guide pack)
• Garden of her Heart by Zoe Richards
• How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
• The Coffin Club by Jacqueline Stroud
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
• The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
• French Braid by Anne Tyler
• We Run The Tides by Vendela Vida
• Kala by Colin Walsh