This is essentially 'Speed Dating' with Book Reports. The students sit facing a partner in two concentric circles. For 2 minutes, the students in the inner circle describe their books. Then, for the next 2 minutes, the students in the outer circle describe their books to their partners. For 2 further minutes, all the students fill out the Convince Me forms (see link). Then ALL the students in the outer circle stand up and move clockwise to the next partner. The whole process is continued again and again until the lesson is over (or the teacher decides to end it). Finally, a show of hands will declare how many of the students were convinced to read the books they just heard about.
Use One-pagers as a novel way to write a book report. So what is a one-pager? Well, it's pretty simple, really. Students design a single page of paper featuring key elements of whatever they have just read. Using quotations, their own words, drawings, symbols, and colors, they highlight important themes, symbols, moments and characters on the page. Here is a link to literally tons of free templates for one- pagers.
Your students can present their Book Report in a pizza box! Here are the instructions. Feel free to make a copy and adapt it.