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Reading groups

It's a great time to be in a reading group. With Allen & Unwin you can read and discuss some of the best in contemporary publishing.

Reading groups are a relaxing, fun thing to do for people who are open-minded and curious about what they read.

Discover new titles and books you might not normally pick up and buy, or re-examine books you already know and love. You can make your reading experience richer and more rewarding by being a member of a reading group and meeting others who are interested in sharing their reading experience.

Still not sure what do to? We've put together some tips on how to start your own reading group.

Our top-selling recommended reads for reading groups:

  1. Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
  2. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
  3. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
  4. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  5. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Latest reading group notes

Spotlight:

The Secret Keeper

by Kate Morton

In a bucolic English summer at the end of the 1960s, a young girl witnesses a shocking crime. Fifty years later, she sets out to find out the truth, uncovering layers of mystery and deception. Moving from London during the Blitz to the present day, this is classic Kate Morton: a compulsively-readable, entrancing mystery with a long held secret to be uncovered at its heart.

Spotlight:

The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson

After a long and eventful life Allan Karlsson is moved to a nursing home to await the inevitable. But his health refuses to fail and as his 100th birthday looms a huge party is planned. Allan wants no part of it and decides to climb out the window ... Charming and funny; a European publishing phenomenon.

Spotlight:

The Burial

by Courtney Collins

A breathtakingly brilliant debut novel in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy - inspired by Australia's last bushranger, young woman Jessie Hickman.

Spotlight:

Lawless

by Matt Bondurant

A film tie-in edition and a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed and murder in a Prohibition county.