Theme Jar

If you need some help deciding on a book when it's your turn to moderate, here are some fun ideas. Different ways to use this list include: roll dice and use the theme represented by that number; read through the list and choose one; ask someone to choose a number and use the theme represented by that number; use your imagination. To find books represented by the themes, ask a librarian, peruse the stacks at the library or bookstore or google it.

Theme Jar

1. Author’s last name starts with the initial of your last name
2. Your favourite book as a child/teen
3. Your favourite book as an adult
4. Book with a red cover
5. Female author
6. Male author
7. Poetry
8. Play
9. Book by an author we have already read
10. Book set in a country other than Canada or the US
11. Canadian author
12. A book that has been banned at some time
13. Non-fiction
14. Historical
15. Book published in the year you were born
16. British author
17. Book with an animal on the cover/in the title
18. Required reading from high school
19. On the New York Times best seller list
20. Award winner
21. Book title begins with ‘The’
22. Recommended by a family member
23. Funny
24. Book with a blue cover
25. Summer
26. Winter
27. Spring
28. Autumn
29. Tear jerker
30. A book made into a movie
31. A holiday book
32. Newly released
33. Book title begins with ‘A’
34. Author’s name contains an initial
35. Library book club bag