Ann Patchett Reading Group Guides with discussion topics and questions:

Run
Truth & Beauty
Bel Canto
Taft
The Patron Saint of Liars

Thinking about starting your own reading group, but not sure how? Check out our suggestions and you'll be on your way to lively book discussions with your friends and fellow readers in no time. In January 2003, Ann Patchett participated in the HarperCollins.com Invite the Author program. Two reading groups won the chance to talk via the telephone with Ann Patchett about her novel, Bel Canto. To learn more about the program, please visit InvitetheAuthor.com.

"Just a note to thank you again for the wonderful opportunity to have Ann Patchett be part of our discussion of Bel Canto . . . We might take a road trip when she visits Michigan to meet her in person. We've decided to read all her other works."

— Dawn Webb, The Digressing Divas

"My bookclub was delighted with Ann Patchett on Monday night [Bel Canto] . . . We felt a real connection to her even though we were separated by miles and a speaker phone."

— Susan Lange, Between the Covers Book Club