Contact: clubs@ipnovels.com
- Decide what kind of novels you want to read in your book club (historical fiction, suspense/thriller novels, novels by a certain author, etc.)
- Choose your first book and download the discussion guide at www.ipnovels.com.
- Choose a location where the book club will meet. Some ideas are meeting at someone’s home, a church, coffee shop, or restaurant. You can also decide to rotate meeting locations.
- Decide how many people to invite and make a contact list with each member’s name, email address, phone number, etc.
- Decide how often to meet and when.
- Based on how often you meet, determine how many novels you want to read – one per month? Or one every other month? Also, think about how many meetings you want to spend discussing a book before moving onto another book.
- Order books for group members or tell them where they can purchase the book.
- Delegate book club responsibilities to group members. Some things to delegate include:
- Who will lead the group
- Who will send out reminders and updates to group members
- If refreshments are served, who will provide them at each meeting
- Who will take notes and keep track of what books are read
Novels with Discussion Guides
- We’ll Never Tell Them, by Fiorella de Maria.
- The Wife of Pilate, by Gertrud von le Fort.
- Iota, by T. M. Doran.
- The Accidental Marriage, by Roger Thomas.
- The Rising, by Robert Ovies.
- Tobit’s Dog, by Michael Nicholas Richard.
- The Leaves Are Falling, by Lucy Beckett.
- Everywhere in Chains, by James Casper.
- Ceremony of Innocence, by Dorothy Cummings McLean.
- A Danger to the State, by Philip Trower.
- Looking for the King, by David C. Downing.
- Terrapin, by T. M. Doran.
- Toward the Gleam, by T. M. Doran.
- Ida Elisabeth, by Sigrid Undset.
- Dayspring, by Harry Sylvester.
- The Death of a Pope, by Piers Paul Read.
- Shadows and Images, by Meriol Trevor.
- Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor Caldwell.
- Do No Harm, by Fiorella de Maria.
- Poor Banished Children, by Fiorella de Maria.
- A Postcard from the Volcano, by Lucy Beckett.
- The Song at the Scaffold, by Gertrud von le Fort.
- The Father’s Tale, by Michael D. O'Brien.
- Lay Siege to Heaven, by Louis de Wohl.
- The Restless Flame, by Louis de Wohl.
- The Quiet Light, by Louis de Wohl.
- Citadel of God, by Louis de Wohl.
- Set All Afire, by Louis de Wohl.
- The Joyful Beggar, by Louis de Wohl.
- The Golden Thread, by Louis de Wohl.
- Theophilos, by Michael D. O'Brien.
- The Spear, by Louis de Wohl.
- The Living Wood, by Louis de Wohl.
- The Last Crusader, by Louis de Wohl.