Overview: Groups

What are you reading? 2321 books / 5554 members / 12824 posts A place to talk about books you have read/reading of any genre, or any book talk in general.

Animal Stories 96 books / 68 members / 53 posts This group is about animal books and is for animal lovers!

Favorite Fantasy 946 books / 1488 members / 2376 posts Let fellow Shelfarians know what you consider good fantasy novels.

Crossgenre 93 books / 31 members / 53 posts I read alot of literature that cross boundaries. Is it horror or science fiction. True "literature" or genre. I want to create a list of books that are hard to define but good nonetheless. Also graphic novels are welcomed.

Young Adult Fantasy Lovers Unite! 210 books / 200 members / 136 posts This group is for lovers of young adult fantasy books. It doesn't matter whether or not you ARE a young adult; anyone who likes to read young adult fantasy is welcome! If you feel like every time you walk into a Borders or Barnes & Noble you find about 20 million new YA fantasies you just have to have, then this is the group for you!

Brilliant Babes (And Dudes) Who Read Selectively 639 books / 165 members / 7779 posts So, what makes you a selective reader? If you like Dan Brown, Danielle Steele, Nicholas Sparks, or similar works, you MAY not be into this club. We are a group of intelligent persons who love both thought-provoking literature and quality brain candy. Actually, I mainly started it for myself and my friends, but anybody can apply if you think you're down with the Brilliant Babes--just send someone a note explaining why YOU think you are a brilliant babe (or dude) who reads selectively. This is a super-casual group. Anybody can suggest a book to read, anybody can add books to the reading list. We welcome any and all intelligent book discussion (not to mention whining about books we hated or gushing about books we loved). And don't worry if you have a really embarrassing book on your shelves...we all have skeletons in the closet. To ask for an invite please DO NOT use the admin message box, leave a note on the profile pages of either rob or Suze...we will get back to you as soon as we can...thanks for your patience...and if you insist on asking for an invite via the group admin message box you will be ignored...so don't. Also, please remember that, although we TRY to get to everyone's requests in a timely manner, we do have other responsibilities that sometimes delay us from looking at your shelves. Your patience will be rewarded A note about being snobs: As hard as it is to believe, with all of the nice people here on Shelfari, we get an e-mail once every week or two saying that we are snobs. That really just depends on your definition of a snob. Yes, this is a private group. Yes, we jokingly call ourselves brilliant. Yes, we have rather defined reading tastes that cut out a lot of mass-market fiction. Does that truly make us snobs? We hand-picked many members of our initial group around what we like to read or think we'd like to read. I don't think this makes us so much snobs as "people who want to discuss the kind of stuff that they like to read and don't care to discuss stuff that they don't like to read." (shrugs) We're pretty accepting. So, before sending us mean e-mails, see above for the joining process. And just remember: If you don't make it in, you probably haven't read the same books that we've all read and we'd have nothing to talk about! A special note from the admin: We want everyone to have a great time here. All we expect is that everyone plays nice! Good-humored sarcasm is in; putting down or harassing our members is not, and we won't hesitate to remove a repeat offender from the group. Note on the threads: please feel free to go back and resurrect any of the earlier threads that you find interesting... Our One and Only Love List... Love in the Time of Cholera...Gabriel Garcia Marquez (J.M.) Pride and Prejudice...Jane Austen (littlemom) Jane Eyre...Charlotte Bronte (AthenasDaughter) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...Betty Smith (Dana) A Room With a View...E.M. Forster (Kiki) To Kill a Mockingbird...Harper Lee (unfinished woman) The Virgin Suicides,,,Jeffrey Eugenides (ballroom pink) Dragonfly in Amber...Diana Gabaldon (Aimeesue) Watership Down...Richard Adams (rob) Persuasion...Jane Austen (AvidReader) The Once and Future King...T.H.White (Alicia) The Sound and the Fury...William Faulkner (katie) Gone with the Wind...Margaret Mitchell (dickensfan) The Forsythe Saga...John Galsworthy (cubachick) Catcher in the Rye...J.D. Salinger (gbett) Fall On Your Knees...Ann Marie MacDonald (HemingwayHeroine) Return of the Native...Thomas Hardy (Aaro) Fight Club...Chuck Palahniuk (Tania B.) The Great Indian Novel...Shashi Tharoor (ophelia) Reading The Three Musketeers: The Serial Schedule Part/Chapters/Start Date/Discussion Date one/author's preface, 1, 2, 3, 4/17th May/25th two/5, 6, 7, 8/26th/1st June three/9, 10, 11, 12/2nd/8th four/13, 14, 15, 16/9th/15th five/17, 18, 19, 20/16th/22nd six/21, 22, 23, 24/23rd/29th seven/25, 26, 27, 28/30th/6th July eight/29, 30, 31, 32/7th/13th nine/33, 34, 35, 36/14th/20th ten/37, 38, 39, 40/21st/27th eleven/41, 42, 42, 44/28th/3rd August twelve/45, 46, 47, 48/4th/10th thirteen/49, 50, 51, 52, 53/11th/17th fourteen/54, 55, 56, 57, 58/18th/24th fifteen/59, 60, 61, 62, 63/25th/31st sixteen/64, 65, 66, 67, epilogue/1st September/7th http://www.strandbooks.com/ http://www.daedalusbooks.com/ http://www.hippocrenebooks.com/ http://loyolaclassics.loyolapress.com/

Bongoid Mooing 22 books / 9 members / 33 posts A collaborative shelf in which to put currently being read books or books we want to read. There are no rules. This is a private shelf that is by invite only and can be viewed by members only. A veritable oasis of book hedonism.

The 400 Pages (or Less) Book Club 73 books / 10 members / 16 posts This is a "no pressure" book club. We will only read books with 400 pages or less - unless we really want to read it :-) You don't have to finish reading the book or even start reading the book to participate. Come on in & join us for a discussion about why you didn't finish - or what stopped you from picking it up in the first place.

The Tiki Cup Club 5 books / 1 members / 0 posts Friends of me. :)

Animals, Pets, and Related Topics 23 books / 36 members / 35 posts Animals! Embark on an armchair adventure in this group. Topics can be about wild, tame, pets, spiritual, pragmatic, how-to, fiction, or non-fiction but the main goal is to chat about your favorite books with an animal focus--classic or contemporary!

Moms Who Read To Escape Their Weary Lives 731 books / 1168 members / 7286 posts In order to find out what books the Moms Who Read are discussing, please click on the blue "more" link at the end of the next paragraph. You may lose a few brain cells when you become a mother, but you still love to read! Whether you're able to fit in one book per year or 100 between changing diapers and/or taxiing kids to sports and activities, this is the place to come to chat about your current books or to get ideas for future reading. So grab a book, settle in, and let off some steam if you need to...we mommies are here to listen! October Title: Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (Nominated by ~*Kim*~) The discussion began on October 1, but feel free to add to it at any time by searching for the thread using the "Search Discussions" link on the upper right side of the page. Upcoming titles: November - The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (Nominated by Shan) December - The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (Nominated by Julie) Discussions will begin on the first of each month. Past titles: The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center (with author chat) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen All the Numbers by Judy Merrill Larsen (with author chat) In the Woods by Tana French The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross (with author chat) People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance (with author chat) Love Walked In by Maria de Los Santos The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain If you have anything you'd like to add to these discussions at any time, don't hesitate to pull the book titles up from the "Search Discussions" link on the upper right side of the page and add to the threads! While we appreciate that many of our members are authors, please do not post book promotions to our group. I will remove them as I do not want anyone to feel pressured to buy anything or be bothered by numerous spams in the discussion list. Thank you for understanding.

Teen Fantasy Reads 72 books / 80 members / 59 posts Discusses books and upcoming books for teenage readers. So join the group if you enjoy teen reads!!!! Mostly books with fantasy and Magic. Join this group if you like Tolkien,Lewis, and Rowling. This club discusses fantasy novels and some movies made from them. Invite all of your friends, we need more membersAnd if you would like to post some fanstasy books on the group shelf go right ahead. Check out our shelf, maybe there will be new books you have not read.

LOST 13 books / 54 members / 368 posts For LOST fanatics to discuss the past seasons, and even the future ones. Doesn't have to do with books, but still.

Books to Read 265 books / 1 members / 0 posts Books that are on my shelf that I haven't read yet

The "Big Read" (Big Read 2003) 46 books / 16 members / 3 posts 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Hexes n vexes! 61 books / 131 members / 224 posts Whoeva loves Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings n Narnia ----- Welcome to the magical world of books! Enjoy, Hve Fun, Relive your Fantasies by posting ur own creativity n show what ur made of..

MYP Language A 80 books / 30 members / 1 posts Books for MYP Language A grades 6-10

Gaming Addicts 116 books / 17 members / 6 posts I am a gaming addict, World of Warcraft specifically, and am always up for talking to other gamers about books. What sort of books do you enjoy or would recommend?

Libba Bray: Gemma Doyle Series 41 books / 21 members / 141 posts This is a group for those who love the Gemma Doyle Series - A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing.

NoVA Bookclub 53 books / 15 members / 38 posts We are currently reading A SENSE OF THE WORLD: HOW A BLIND MAN BECAME HISTORY'S GREATEST TRAVELER by Jason Roberts. Please feel free to make any comments on our books below as you read or if can't make it to the meeting (or even afterwards). Also, if you'd like to impact our book selections, please vote. We meet the first Thursday of each month at 7pm. Our next meeting is Thursday, July 3rd. See you there! ___________________________________________________________________ When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. ~ Chris Fadiman

Movie Lovers 282 books / 1181 members / 4113 posts Welcome to Movie Lovers. ~~For information on the monthly Group Movies please click on the blue "more" tab below~~ This is the place to come to discuss all genres of movies, old or new, viewed on the big screen or the little one, and not necessarily book-related... Many book-lovers also share a passion for movies, as they also tell a "story" of one kind or another, and many movies are based on our favourite books. All movie-lovers welcome to join discussions, or create your own. Feel free to resurrect old (or ancient) discussions if you have something to add! HAVE A HAPPY DAY :) our current group movie August : Connection=Theme : ANTI-WAR : Ballad of a Soldier our previous group movies July : Connection=Theme : FOOD : Chocolat (currently under discussion) June : Connection=Actor : CHRISTIAN BALE : The Machinist/The Prestige May : SCIENCE FICTION : Equilibrium April : COMEDY : Death at a Funeral March : DRAMA : Gone Baby Gone

La Cremes 203 books / 7 members / 8 posts The picture was cropped, so we'll have to take another one! We're missing someone!!

First Friday Book Club 66 books / 6 members / 4 posts Welcome to the FFBC Shelfari Group! We meet monthly-ish at members' homes or, if all else fails, at a diner. If this is your first time here, remember to click on "Join Group" to become an official online member (See it? Right up there in the top right corner). If you have received an invitation to join our group, go to your Shelfari home page and accept the invitation by clicking on the "Accept" button. Feel free to add books you want us to read to the Group shelf. If we all check this shelf prior to our meetings, we'll have a starting point for selecting our next book. All FFBC members are welcome to invite their friends to this group. If they can't join us in person for our meetings, they can always join us here in cyberspace to give their opinions of our books.

Books that will induce mindf*ck 198 books / 29 members / 13 posts Group for discussion about books that will induce mindf*ck (see http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1016184). Feel free to propose in discussions any other book to include it in the list.

Better than Starbucks… if you like good coffee, great books, sharp wit, and people who read 679 books / 1012 members / 10339 posts Better than Starbucks… if you like good coffee, great books, sharp wit, and people who read Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, Marquez, Morrison, Joyce, Faulkner, Cather, Kingsolver and a few hundred other really delicious writers, not to impress strangers, but because they love a good read, then please join us. We are not a private group, but the administrators will not resist the urge to delete boring and stupid comments. By the same token, personal attacks on young, slow or otherwise disadvantaged players will not be tolerated. Generally, be nice to other members, but spare not public figures, pop lit superstars, big box stores, politicians and religious leaders. Focus more energy on what is good and even what is great, but feel free to throw a stone when the occasion calls for it. Welcome!

Friends are friends 56 books / 33 members / 23 posts hey this is a group where u can feel free to make freinds and also free to post topics at anytime u all want anything and plz dont let this group down Thanks Happy reading

LOST book club 14 books / 7 members / 5 posts Listing the books mentioned and read on abc's LOST - I know this list exists elsewhere on the web, but i thought shelfari would be a good place too. I'm just starting out, so please add any you know of and post your insights! There is no particular order or requirement for reading (if you need a place to start though, Watership Down was the first book that appeared on the show). Feel free to start a discussion about any of the books at any time.

ANIMAL LOVERS 14 books / 40 members / 15 posts YOU CAN POST TOPICS ABOUT ANIMALS AT ANY TIME...ITS NOT A GROUP ONLY FOR ANIMAL LOVERS ITS A GROUP U CAN MAKE FRIENDS AND POST TOPICS ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS TOO................... HAPPY READING

Bibliophiles 42 books / 100 members / 75 posts This group is for the Shelfari member who is interested in editions, who enjoys a first edition and really enjoys a signed first edition. This group is for people who have a list of books they've been searching for at used bookstores, garage sales, estate sales, library sell-offs and the like. This is not meant to be a pompous group, but rather a group that appreciates the artwork on the original cover, or a good hard-bound edition that's been around for many years and, with good care, will be around for many more. So join this group and add any nice editions that you have to the group shelf and we'll talk collecting. As for the shelves, use the "Books We've Read" shelf for first edition, antiquarian, or collectible books you own and use the "Books to Read" shelf for books that you'd like to add to your collection.

Literature of LOST 63 books / 12 members / 13 posts The hit television show LOST - a serialized drama characterized by suspense, sci-fi, and mystery - contains many literary references. This group is for those who want to read and discuss the books referenced in the world of LOST.

English 9 Honors 1 books / 17 members / 46 posts This is a discussion group for English 9 Honors students at the American International School of Guangzhou, 2008-2009. Here, students in the class will celebrate their fREADom by sharing their ideas about the books they have read for fun and for school.

Watership Down....For All 1 books / 3 members / 8 posts For anyone of all ages/walks of life who have encountered this now classic piece of work,or even for those thinking of trying it for the first time.