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© 2021 V&R unipress, Brill Deutschland GmbH ISBN Print: 9783847113232 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737013239 3.4 Literaryworksand their selection Inbookclubs, thebooksareusually selectedby thecoordinatorand thewayof acquiring themvaries fromoneclub toanother.Mostof the clubs select books thatareheld in libraries,whereas inothers themembersbuy theirbook, and in others theyread themon-screen throughe-booksafterdownloading individual copies. Allkindsofbooksarereadintheclubs:classical,current,best-sellers,etc.And although different kinds of genres are read, the narrative genre usually domi- nates,asthelibrarycollectionsusedforbookclubsusuallyhavethislimitation.It isgenerallyconsideredthatthemorevarietythereisinthereadingsproposed,the more quality the book club has, because participants will have more oppor- tunities tobecomeacquaintedwithinterestingbooks. Inschoolbookclubs,abit of everything tends to be read, andparticipants emphatically value the oppor- tunity that the club gives them to readbooks that theywouldnot have readby themselves. Indialogic literary gatherings, onlyuniversal classics are read, and these are selectedby theparticipants after aprocess inwhich they submit reasonedpro- posals, after which the group reaches a consensus (not by voting), taking on boardthebestargumentsprovided.Thismayseemalimitation,butit isdonefor an important reason:why readall kindsofbooks if there is a corpusof literary worksconsideredtobethebestofall time?10Dialogic literarygatheringsoperate in such away that they ensure that everyone can read these books (which are oftenjudgedasbeing ’hard’),astheyarebrokendownintosmallpartswhichare then discussed at the meetings. In literary gatherings, be they for adults or children,peoplebuy theirownbookorborrow it froma library. Inschoolgatherings, children’sclassics (authors suchasAndersenorVerne) oradaptedadultuniversalclassics(TheOdyssey,DonQuixote,RomeoandJuliet, etc.)areoftenchosenbecause theyareanaptvehicle for in-depthdebates,given the large number of values, behaviours, attitudes, and ways of thinking and acting thatoccur in this typeofbooks. 3.5 Takingstock Theresultshighlightakeyaspect:behindeachof these twopractices there isan innovationparadigm in readingwhich cannot be ignored by the organisations that intend topromote them.Bothcurrentlypresentopportunities andwaysof 10 Calvin1993. Similarities anddifferencesbetweenbookclubsanddialogic literarygatherings 251 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0