These are not really formatted as books or even as pamphlets, so I feel that it's best to post them here on this thread.
Random House maintains a website for high school teachers. I don't know how many MobileReaders might be one of those, but I found that there's some information on the site that might be of interest to a variety of readers (and we all
do have interest in reading in common, right?).
At
www.randomhouse.com/highschool, there is a choice on the menu bar at the top of the page for "resources." In the drop down menu there are links for "author profiles," "conferences," "lesson plans," and "teacher's guides."
What I find special about the books that are covered is that they aren't the old, dry, boring junk that we were force fed in classes in high school and that we had to take at a liberal arts college years ago in order to get a degree in a completely unrelated field. No siree, many of these are very modern books (all published by Random House or a related company, I'm sure, though) that real, normal people read all of the time for enjoyment.
I find the teacher's guides to be of special interest. If you ignore the stuff in them of special interest to teachers, you have some pretty good material to use for learning for yourself about the contents and meaning of various books. Sure, you can find some good or even great material on the Internet (I'm thinking especially of CliffNotes) about books, but are you going to find it about
recent,
popular books?
Oh, doing a spot check, I found that some of the teacher's guides are in pdf; but some, unfortunately, are just in html. If you want to convert the html ones to pdf for some reason, I highly recommend an extension to the Chrome browser called "Print Friendly & PDF." Too, links to the teacher's resources on individual webpages for the books are not consistently in one place, so you might need to use the Ctrl+F (find) function on your computer. I think that your effort will be worth it.