Book Club: Please help me pick

lina9496

lina9496

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I am in a book club and will be hosting in February. This means I have to pick a book for everyone to read. I have until January 19th to make a choice. Any and all suggestions are appreciated. This book club is fairly new. So far we have read, The Secret Life of Bees and The Shack.
 
I just finished reading The Double Bind. It was very good...but also very confusing. It has already led to some interesting conversations with co-workers who have also read it. Good luck in your choice!

ETA: Another good thing about this book (besides the fact that it raises so many questions) is that it comes with discussion questions in the back of the book!

Carrie
 
I'm in a book club too. Here are the books that have sparked the most interesting conversations in my book club.

Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
Three Cups of Tea
In Cold Blood
Oryx and Crake
Handmaid's Tale
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
 
berry99 said:
I'm in a book club too. Here are the books that have sparked the most interesting conversations in my book club.

Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
Three Cups of Tea
In Cold Blood
Oryx and Crake
Handmaid's Tale
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
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I'll put in a vote for The Kite Runner and Snowflower and the Secret Fan - they're both on my list of favorites!
 
I'm in a book club as well. The most interesting books we've read have all been Jodi Picoult books, which really make you look at both sides of an issue. The ones we've liked the best-- and that have sparked the most animated discussions-- are as follows:

My Sister's Keeper
Mercy
A Perfect Match
Nineteen Minutes


She writes some powerful stuff. Be prepared to come out of her books seeing many issues as neither black nor white but very gray.


MC
 
A book called The Pact by Jodi Picault. Two families, whose children grow up together (and whom both sets of parents fantasize will one day marry), are very close until one night the girl is found dead from a gunshot wound. Everything falls apart when the boy explains he and the girl had had a suicide pact.

Though I have no children, The Pact is a gut-wrenching story I think every parent should read. It will have you looking a lot more carefully at your post-adolescent children.
 
I second the vote for My Sisters Keeper. How about The Lovely Bones? Its another book that's bound to get conversation going!
 
A good one I read for a book club several years ago is The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. It comes with discussion questions, too. It was the kind of book I never would have read on my own, but it really moved me at the time. Have fun with it! My book club is reading Twilight this month, which I haven't started yet.

anne
 
I ditto a few listed above:

Snowflower and the Secret Fan
The Kite Runner
My Sister's Keeper


And add:

The Other Boleyn Girl
Memoirs of a Geisha
Three Cups of Tea
One Thousand White Women
Water for Elephants
The Glass Castle
The Red Tent

Gayle
 
I just got done reading, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.. .LOVED it! It has some "discussion questions" at the end too, I believe.

The other I read and agree on:

Water for Elephants

Also, I've HEARD this one is a goodie, and I'm dying to read it:

Midwives.
 
Have you read The Time Traveller's Wife yet? I haven't read anything newly published in awhile, but really enjoyed that, House of a Thousand Splendid Suns, Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister. I'm just finishing Lisey's Story, but that's a Stephen King and may not be everyone's cuppa tea. Other than that, I've been revisiting the classics - Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Of Mice and Men....
 
Book Club Suggestions

Thanks so much for all of the suggestions. I love to read. I'm reading Revolutionary Road right now. Then will go see the movie. I always like to see how it is portrayed on the big screen. I have never said that the movie is better than the book. Wonder why that is.
 
I LOVED Water for Elephants...forgot about that one!

All these suggestions are making me want to head to Borders. I need to make time to read more!!!
 
A Thousand Splendid Suns

I vote for "A Thousand Splendid Suns." I liked it better than "Kite Runner!"

I felt manipulated by "Double Bind." I got to the end and felt that the author had pulled a fast one.

I really enjoyed "Pillars of the Earth" and would recommend that and the sequel, "World Without End" except that, at more than 1,000 pages each, they are books without end. Probably would be a two-month read for the club (each book). But worth reading on your own!
 
My Half of the Sky by Jana McBurney-Lin. It's not a book that grabs you from the beginning, but once you do get into it you are so into the character's life that you feel you are a part of the book. Well, that was my experience, anyway.

A new book I just head reviewed is Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips. It sounds really good too.

-Beth
 
Really really enjoyed:

Water for Elephants
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
My Sister's Keeper

I also liked many of the other books mentioned in this thread, but the above stand out for me (although I only actually read My Sister's Keeper--the others I listened to on cd on the way to and from work.)

Wendy
 
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