Gossip Girl: Book Club Resources

von Ziegesar, Cecily. Gossip Girl: A Novel. Little, Brown, New York: 2002. Click above to go to worldcat.org.

Book Club Questions for Gossip Girl #1

• Do you think the crazy antics that go on in Gossip Girl happen to real people in real life?
• If so, do you think you’d act the way Serena or Blair act if your family was fabulously wealthy?  Would your parents act the way the parents in Gossip Girl do?
• If not, does your opinion change if you know that the author grew up in Manhattan in a well-to-do family and attended elite private schools just like the characters in the book?
• Have you ever seen the TV show?  How does the book compare?  Are there characters you liked more in the book than you do when you see the same stories on TV or vice versa?
• Who is Gossip Girl?

Read-alikes

• The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen
• L.A. Candy novels by Lauren Conrad
• The Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard
• The Clique series by Lisi Harrison

Other resources

• Cecily von Ziegesar on Goodreads (author)
• A bibliography of all von Ziegesar’s books
• Gossip Girl website (TV, complete with fashion ads)