Suggested Questions

for book clubs and book discussion groups

1. What did you like best about this book?
2. What did you like least about this book?
3. What other books did this remind you of?
4. What do you think the author's purpose was in writing this book? What ideas was he or she trying to get across?
5. How original and unique was this book?
6. If you could hear this same story from another person's point of view, who would you choose?
7. How well do you think the author built the world in the book?
8. Did the characters seem believable to you? Did they remind you of anyone?
9. Did the book's pace seem too fast/too slow/just right?
10. If you got the chance to ask the author of this book one question, what would it be?
11. Which character in the book would you most like to meet?
12. Which places in the book would you most like to visit?
13. What do you think of the book's title? How does it relate to the book's contents? What other title might you choose?
14. Which characters in the book did you like best?
15. Which characters did you like least?
16. If you were making a movie of this book, whom would you cast?