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Favorite Book Club Books
Here are some recent popular choices by book clubs. Have a favorite? Add it to the list!
- The Electric Michaelangelo
- Kafka on the Shore
- Shadow of the Wind
- Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Never Let Me Go
- Shipping News
- Clara Callan
- The Secrets of Jin Shei by Alma Alexander
- Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Complete Short Stories of Truman Capote
- Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
- The Canongate Myth Series
- The Maharishi Effect by Geoff Gilpin
- Gossamer by Lois Lowry (YA)
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
- Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
- Stop That Girl by Elizabeth McKenzie
- The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
- Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
- The MouseDriver Chronicles
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- The Island by Victoria Hislop
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Twist of Gold by Michael Morpurgo
- The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
- Thinks by David Lodge
- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (a play actually)
- A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Folded World by Amity Gaige
- The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
- The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- Did I Expect Angels? by kathryn Maughan
- West With the Night by Beryl Markham
- Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
- Fat Girl by Judith Moore
- The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
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| Anonymous | a must read | 1 | Friday, 9:48 PM EDT by jersee | |
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We Need To Talk about Kevin.........great read!
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| JennRusso | The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die | 1 | May 15 2008, 3:35 PM EDT by MsVazzana | |
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Our book club, composed of women from 30-54 is reading a wonderful book by John Izzo titled The Five Secrets You Must Discover before You Die. Izzo interviewed 250 people from age 60-106 who were identified by others as the "wisest person they knew." The result is a great read that lends itself to passionate discussion secret by secret. It reads like good fiction but is rooted in the lives of these fascinting people (including Izzo himself) from a town barber to teachers, native elders to poets. A must read for book clubs.
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| clemmer | The End of The Alphabet, a novel | 0 | Dec 18 2007, 11:41 PM EST by clemmer | |
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In 119 pages in a pocket size book, CS Richardson's novel about Ambrose Zephyr, an Englishman who fails his annual medical exam due to an "illness of inexplicable origin with neither known nor foreseeable cure," tells the story of the grace and devotion an ordinary couple bring to their situation. WIth 30 days to live, Ambrose and his wife prepare as best one can. An incredibly clever work, with all number of plays on the alphabet (his name is Ambrose Zephyr (A-Z) and hers, Zipper Ashkenazi (Z-A), that teases you with its cleverness and breaks your heart with their devotion to each other.
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| clemmer | The Shepherd, the Angel and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog | 0 | Dec 18 2007, 11:28 PM EST by clemmer | |
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Dave Barry's book is perfect for December book club meetings--something short and fun, but prone to creating lots of discussion. As a member of the 40 something crowd it brought back lots of Christmas memories--especially the photographs. It's small and fits easily in the carry-on for those short plane trips or long car rides.
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| clemmer | The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf | 0 | Dec 18 2007, 11:21 PM EST by clemmer | |
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Add this novel about growing up in a devout Muslim community in the 1970's in Indianpolis to your 2008 must read list. The novel follows Kandra as she struggles both against American culture and her own devout Muslim community as she seeks to find her place and her religion. Heartbreaking at some points, and enlightening.
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