This has been on my wishlist for over a year so I was delighted when I found it on the shelf at Goodwill yesterday. So delighted in fact that I went home and spent the evening reading it. It broke down each month into a theme (eg. Women's History, Cold, Gardening, etc.) and then selected books in the following categories for each theme: Crowd Pleaser, Classic, Memoir, Challenge and Potluck. Each selection was followed with some information related to the book and author as well as questions. The book can be used for either individual or group reading. It was friendly without being patronizing in tone. I really liked this and intend to use it to enhance my reading. ( )

I picked up A Year of Reading because I thought I would get lots of good ideas for new books to read, and that I did!

A Year of Reading is set up to support a book group. For each of 12 months, a theme is chosen, and a book in each of five categories is presented. The five categories are: Crowd Pleaser, Classic, Challenge, Memoir and Pot Luck.

For each book presented, there is a ton of information, including:
- a section on what the book is about,
- some questions for discussion with your book group,
- information on the author,
- other works by the author,
- additional book- or author-related activities in which the book group can participate,
- related videos and movies, and
- a section on other books you might like if you enjoyed this one.

Even though I did not use this book for book group activities, I enjoyed going through it. If I hadn't read the selected book yet, I didn't spend time on the book group questions (I'll do that when I read the selected book), but I did review them for books I had already read. The questions are pertinent.

I filled this book up with a ton of red flags for all the books I'm interested in, so for me A Year of Reading was a big success, and could probably fill a year of reading with all of the books I have added to my wishlist. ( )