Materials to Get Your Group Up and Running
See below for these three great resources:
- How to Start a Great Books Discussion Group, including the new Shared Inquiry Handbook (complete the form below to download a free copy in pdf now).
- The Great Books Starter Pack (materials for your whole group)
- Discounts on your book purchases from the Great Books Foundation
FREE! How to Start a Great Books Discussion Group
Available in a free downloadable PDF file, How to Start a Great Books Discussion Group contains helpful advice to attract participants and start a group, select texts, conduct your first meeting, and more.
Featured in How to Start a Great Books Discussion Group is the new Shared Inquiry Handbook, a 32-page guide for Great Books groups, packed with advice about Shared Inquiry discussion, preparing for and leading discussion, and reading closely, the Great Books way.
To download How to Start a Great Books Discussion Group now, complete and submit this form.
You must have Adobe Acrobat to open How to Start a Great Books Discussion Group.
The Great Books Starter Pack--materials for the whole group
Order the Great Books Starter Pack and receive (by mail) a set of materials for your whole group, including:
- 10 copies of the new Shared Inquiry Handbook for leaders and participants, in convenient print booklet form
- 10 copies of a recent issue of The Common Review, magazine of the Great Books Foundation
- 10 catalogs of the Foundation’s recommended books for discussion
- 10 name "tent cards" to identify participants in your group in your first discussions
Get your whole group reading on the same page. Order the Great Books Starter Pack now!
20% Discount on Book Purchases
Members of the Great Books Foundation get a 20% discount on book purchases from our bookstore.
Members also get a one-year subscription to The Common Review, one free book, a stainless steel coffee mug, and a set of literary note cards. Read the details and become a member today!