23 fun & deep book club conversation starters

Love learning and sharing what you’ve learned?  Join book clubs — they are the intellectual version of sex stores 🙂 Here’s a list of questions to connect with your other club members and trade insights:  …

Love learning and sharing what you’ve learned? 

Join book clubs — they are the intellectual version of sex stores 🙂

Here’s a list of questions to connect with your other club members and trade insights: 

Questions around the book of choice 

  1. What do you think about the last chapter/the book?
  2. How would you rate the book on a scale of 1 to 10?
  3. [If fiction] Which character could you relate to the most?
  4. What was your favorite idea from the book?
  5. What would you change about the book, if anything?
  6. Would you read another book by the same author? 
  7. What would you like to read next?

If you want geeky questions that help you deconstruct the book — whether it’s plot, characters, or writing style — Jules Buono of The Literary Lifestyle has a crazy comprehensive list of questions

Other questions 

Fun questions 

  1. Fiction or nonfiction? 
  2. Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings?
  3. E L James (Fifty Shades Of Grey) or Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)?
  4. Physical books or ebooks? 
  5. If you could be a book, which book would it be?
  6. If you could be a book character, who would it be?
  7. If you were the king/queen of the world and you could get everyone to read one book… which book would it be?
  8. If your house was burning down and you could only save one book, what would you grab before running out? 
  9. If your life was a book, what would it be about? (I also love Reddit’s variation)
  10. If you could write a book on anything — without worrying about your reputation — what would you write about? 

Deeper questions 

  1. What’s your favorite genre? 
  2. What’s your “guilty pleasure” read and why?
  3. What’s the most profound lesson you learned from a book? 
  4. What’s one book that has changed your life?
  5. What book did you wish you had read earlier?
  6. What book best describes you/your personality?

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