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| Introduction | |
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| The Beloveds | |
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| The Ten Indispensable Titles | |
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| No Leader, No Problem: Discussion Basics | |
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| Club Rules: May We Knit? | |
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| When Pets Misbehave: Flying Minnies and Slobbering Horaces | |
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| Club Rules: When Pets Meet the Club Checklist | |
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| The Unexpected Meeting Place: The Botanical Garden | |
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| Hosting Basics: How to Be Popular | |
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| Angry, Often Desperate Housewives: The Novels | |
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| The Beloved Cocktail | |
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| An Anne Tyler Celebration | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1920s Book Club | |
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| The Book Club Classic | |
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| The Twenty Indispensable Titles | |
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| Four Questions for Isabel Allende | |
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| No Leader, No Problem: Your Next Book | |
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| Club Rules: E-mail Stylings | |
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| When Pets Misbehave: Baddest Kitty | |
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| Book Club Style: Flowers from The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway's Hothouse | |
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| The Costume Drama | |
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| The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: An Appreciation | |
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| The Tween Book Club 101 | |
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| A Bel Canto Evening | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1930s Book Club | |
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| Classic Fiction | |
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| The Twenty-one Indispensable Titles | |
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| What Is a Classic? | |
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| Club Rules: How True! Mark Up Your Book without Mercy | |
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| When Pets Go Missing | |
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| The Tween Book Club: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis | |
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| The Many Favorites of Ernest Hemingway | |
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| Classic Fiction Anniversary Party | |
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| Brit Lit Ioi | |
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| The Ten Indispensable Titles | |
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| Touring Thematically: Channeling Jane Austen | |
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| Meeting Thematically: Form a Spin-Off Literary Society | |
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| When Pets Preen | |
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| The Tween Book Club: The Witches by Roald Dahl | |
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| P.G. Wodehouse 101 | |
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| Luncheon at the Club | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1940s Book Club | |
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| Red, White and Noir | |
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| The Ten Indispensable Titles | |
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| No Leader, No Problem: Customizing Discussion Questions | |
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| When Pets Misbehave: The Fearful Guest | |
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| Touring Thematically: Authors at the Lectern | |
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| The Indispensable Short Story Collection | |
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| Peyton Place by Grace Metalious: An Appreciation | |
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| The Indispensable Platter: Vegetables All Year Long | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1950s Book Club | |
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| Literary Respites | |
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| The Ten Indispensable Titles | |
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| Six Questions for Alexander McCall Smith | |
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| The Best Generic Questions for Discussing Series | |
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| New Year's Resolutions for Book Clubs | |
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| Book Club Craft Essentials | |
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| The Tween Book Club: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote | |
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| Book Club Style: Gift from the Sea | |
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| Holiday Celebration | |
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| Snacking at the Club | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1960s Book Club | |
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| Black Lit | |
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| The Ten Indispensable Titles | |
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| Five Questions for Bebe Moore Campbell | |
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| No Leader, No Problem: The Flip Side | |
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| Book Club Style: A Color Purple Flower Celebration | |
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| The Indispensable Reading List: Memoir and Nonfiction | |
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| The Tween Book Club: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor | |
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| Casting Call | |
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| Book Club Supper | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1970s Book Club | |
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| Nonfiction That Reads Like Fiction | |
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| The Ten Indispensable Titles | |
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| No Leader, No Problem: Meeting Style | |
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| The Indispensable Reading List: Biographies | |
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| Savannah Style | |
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| The Indispensable Reading List: The Arcane Thriller | |
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| A Restaurant Meeting | |
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| Best Generic Discussion Questions for Nonfiction | |
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| Supper at the Club | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1980s Book Club | |
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| The Memoir | |
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| The Ten Indispensable Titles | |
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| Five Questions for Ann Patchett | |
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| The Cultural Revolution, Before and After | |
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| Enchanted Summer Book Club | |
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| Seasonal Fruit Platters | |
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| Supper at the Club | |
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| Time Travel: If You Were in a 1990s Book Club | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |