Forum plugin for 20 different pages?

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I am fairly new to WordPress and building a WordPress site that will feature books.

Different pages will cater for books of different genres. There could be, for example, 20 genres. Which means 20 different pages. The top half of every page will contain a gallery of thumbnails of images of the books of that particular genre. That I can do.

The part that I am struggling with is…

I would like the bottom half of every page to display a forum (is that the right word? like Facebook?) where subscribers can comment on the books on that particular page and interact with each other (comment on a previous comment, stay in that thread).

As an added bonus, I’d like the subscribers to rate the books in the gallery. A simple 5 star rating system will be sufficient. Am I pushing my luck now?

I need that kind of layout for all 20 pages… gallery and star ratings in top half, forum in bottom half.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!