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Book report template for PowerPoint

Present a book: what it is about, the ideas, a favourite part and a verdict.

Free: it uses no credits. You get your own copy to edit, in the look you pick here.

Look: Electric

When to use it

Use it to present a book to a class or reading group, with its ideas, a passage and your verdict.

How to use it

  1. Make your own copy. It opens in the editor, where you can change the theme and edit anything.
  2. Fill in the fields below, and answer the question each slide asks with your own content and numbers.
  3. Download it as an editable PowerPoint file, or as a PDF. The file is reopened and checked before it is offered.

Slide by slide

  1. [book title] by [book author] · presented by [name]
  2. What it is about What happens, or what is the book's main argument?
  3. The main ideas First idea, Second idea, Third idea
  4. A passage that stayed with me
  5. My verdict What did the book do well? Who should read it, and why?
  6. Next steps A question for the class about [book title].

Fields to fill

Fill them once in the editor, or from a spreadsheet to make one copy per client. Where a slide needs content, it asks the question it must answer instead of showing a made-up answer.

  • {{book_title}}
  • {{book_author}}
  • {{name}}
  • {{page}}

What is inside

{{book_title}}
by {{book_author}} · presented by {{name}}
Slide 1
What it is about
What happens, or what is the book's main argument?
Slide 2
The main ideas
First idea
What is it, and where does
it appear?
Second idea
What is it, and where does
it appear?
Third idea
What is it, and where does
it appear?
Slide 3
“A short passage from the book, quoted exactly.”
— {{book_author}}, {{book_title}}, page {{page}}
Slide 4
My verdict
What did the book do well?
Who should read it, and why?
Slide 5
Next steps
A question for the class about {{book_title}}.
1. First action — who owns it — by when
2. Second action — who owns it — by when
3. The decision we need, and by when
Slide 6