Reading Group Guides

Beacon Press has developed a selection of reading group guides perfect for book groups and community discussions. Titles are organized by fiction/nonfiction and alphabetized by author's last name within those categories.

We also offer guides specifically for classroom use and for Unitarian Universalist congregations.

Click here for a list of books recommended for freshman year and campus-wide reading programs.

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

Fiction

Octavia Butler
Reading Guide: Kindred

Laila Halaby
Reading Guide: Once in a Promised Land
Reading Guide: West of the Jordan

Gayl Jones
Reading Guide: Corregidora
Reading Guide: The Healing

Oonya Kempadoo
Reading Guide: Buxton Spice
Reading Guide: Tide Running

Sindiwe Magona
Reading Guide: Mother to Mother

Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Reading Guide: Thousand Pieces of Gold
Also available: Teacher's Guide: The Moon Pearl

Farnoosh Moshiri
Reading Guide: The Bathhouse

Patricia Powell
Reading Guide: Me Dying Trial
Reading Guide: A Small Gathering of Bones

Nonfiction

Joan Chittister , Saadi Shakur Chishti, and Arthur Waskow
Reading Guide: The Tent of Abraham

Ronald Dellums
Reading Guide: Lying Down with the Lions

Meredith Hall
Reading Guide: Without a Map

Michael Patrick MacDonald
Reading Guide: All Souls

Tram Nguyen
Reading Guide: We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11

Ntozake Shange
Reading Guide: If I Can Cook/You Know God Can