Overview: Groups

Readers Of African-American Authors 555 books / 701 members / 1051 posts This group is for readers who love to read AA authors. If you are a fan of both fiction and non fiction AA Authors, then this is the group for you.

teen fiction book lovers 49 books / 111 members / 84 posts it is for anyone who enjoys a good teen book anyday.

YA Books that Adults Should Read 692 books / 1769 members / 3951 posts Some of the best literature is written for young adults and children. This group is for sharing titles that are often overlooked because they are marketed to younger people.

Book Chat 699 books / 1858 members / 5399 posts Rather than being about a particular genre or author or book this group is about books and reading in general. Topics have ranged from such things as favorite bookstore, whether you re-read your favorite books, what kind of bookmarks you use, where you read, what you read, i.e. stand alone or epics or short stories or poems and how you arrange your bookshelves at home as well as how you arrange your Shelfari shelves, to name a few. It's fun to see how much we have in common with others and maybe learn some new ideas at the same time. Bullying, trolling and spamming will not be allowed here.

Brilliant Babes (And Dudes) Who Read Selectively 639 books / 166 members / 7790 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/

Shades of Love: Multicultural Children's Books & Literature 1127 books / 296 members / 728 posts Shades of Love is an offshoot of the Black, Biracial & Multiracial: Culture & Diversity Group. Our aim is to provide listings and encourage dialogue for families, educators, and all others who are interested in more representative and diverse literature and reference resources for children, from babies and toddlers to pre-teens and young adults. Finding good books that are diverse and multicultural is a challenge. And YA? Good luck. That is why Shades of Love is here. Please don't assume members are already aware of great titles including reference resources. If you have found a book you enjoy, or have found a text useful and relevant, share it with the group in discussion and on our shelves. If you've seen something and are unsure, let us know. Hopefully someone among us will purchase the text and report back or another may have access through a library and will report to the group. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou

Diversity Works 507 books / 775 members / 7769 posts "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." ~ Martin Luther King Jr Diversity Works is a where we acknowledge our differences, celebrate our commonalities, and make an honest effort to navigate between the two. We hope the setting here feels safe enough for you to examine, consider, and challenge ideas and thoughts expressed here. It's not about being right, but being heard. Tell us what you think.

Books that changed our lives 35 books / 81 members / 18 posts Tell us all about the books that changed your life, the ones that made a profound impact on you, for better or worse. It could be the animal story that changed you into a vegetarian, the book whose language seduced you into becoming a writer, or any book that helped you think in a different way...

African American Books 512 books / 505 members / 633 posts People who enjoy African American literature, fiction or nonfiction.

The Book Chicks 86 books / 2 members / 0 posts Our local book club meets monthly and discusses both fiction and nonfiction.

Mostly Biography, Classics & History 454 books / 88 members / 38 posts This book is for a group of like-minded people who wish to read various books and discuss them. To grow (and to, likely, change) in our opinions and views of the world. Please join me. Just choose from the Books To Read list and we'll discuss which to read. If you feel a book is worth reading by the group, then let me know and we'll see if it gets added to the list.

Black History 58 books / 57 members / 158 posts This group is for avid readers of non-fictional and fictional works related to black history and its hero(ine)s.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 1121 books / 2725 members / 543 posts THESE ARE BOOKS FROM THE BOOK "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" BY Peter Boxall, Peter Ackroyd This group is for the other people trying to read all of the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm?content_id=22845 "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" 1. 2000s 1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro 2. Saturday – Ian McEwan 3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith 4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee 5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson 6. The Sea – John Banville 7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble 8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth 9. The Master – Colm Tóibín 10. Vanishing Point – David Markson 11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd 12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair 13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle 15. The Colour – Rose Tremain 16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner 17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift 18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 20. Islands – Dan Sleigh 21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee 22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair 23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry 24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters 25. The Double – José Saramago 26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer 27. Unless – Carol Shields 28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami 29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor 30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern 31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien 32. Shroud – John Banville 33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee 35. Dead Air – Iain Banks 36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon 37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster 38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi 39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald 40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq 41. Schooling – Heather McGowan 42. Atonement – Ian McEwan 43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen 44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini 45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo 46. Fury – Salman Rushdie 47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill 48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel 50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa 51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma 52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho 53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare 54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith 55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda 56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber 57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera 58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace 59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy 60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow 61. How the Dead Live – Will Self 62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth 63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami 65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande 66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard 67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski 68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates 69. Pastoralia – George Saunders . 71. 1900s 70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster 71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra 72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson 73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli? 74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy 75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb 76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie 77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami 79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq 80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi 81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan 82. Cloudspl