The Lions of Fifth Avenue

Content Warning: This section of the guide contains discussion of gender discrimination.

Gather initial thoughts and broad opinions about the book.

1. Discuss your favorite and least favorite aspects of The Lions of Fifth Avenue. Which portions of the novel did you find the most or least engaging and/or most or least believable?

2. Compare and contrast your experience reading The Lions of Fifth Avenue to your experience reading Davis’s other titles. What parallels do you notice between this novel and novels like The Magnolia Palace, The Address, and The Spectacular? If you have not read these other novels, are you interested in doing so?

3. What other novels about reading, books, and libraries is The Lions of Fifth Avenue in conversation with? For example, you might discuss parallels between Davis’s novel and novels like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, or Sara Nisha Adams’s The Reading List.