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Book Club - book suggestion list
Does anyone have a suggestion for our first book club book to read? There has been a request to select books that are not new releases so that they might be available through a library (and cheaper, too!). Please include the title, author, and maybe a little description of the story. I'll take all of the suggestions and make another post tomorrow so we can vote on which one we want to pick.
Re: Book Club - book suggestion list
Stiff by Mary Roach - all about human cadavers
One For The Money - Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum & her adventures as a bounty hunter (Katherine Heigl is Stephanie's character in the movie coming out soon)
In The Woods by Tana French
Heaven is for Real
I love this book! I think this would lead to a very thought provoking conversation, regardless of whether you believe in the afterlife or not. Or it could lead to a huge debate....depending on our moods that day!
Half Broken Horses: A True Life Novel - by the author of The Glass Castle
Room: A Novel
Cutting for Stone
My Bio
Married Bio
I've read Stiff, which was good, but not really a story...more like you can do A, B, and C with dead bodies and this is how they do it.
The Hunger Games are fabulous and I suggest them to anyone anyways, but I think we should start with a non-trilogy just to have a beginning and end (although I though each of the Hunger books was a complete story by themselves, they def. left you wanting more)
That said, I don't have any actual suggestions, but I'm down for one of the above mentioned ones. I love True Blood...so maybe start with the book that was based off of??
I can't commit to participating in the book club (although I'd love to), but I can chime in with a book recommendation. One of the most moving books that I've read recently was Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout... it's a series of intersecting vignettes about people living in a small town in Maine. To some extent it's a portrait of the town itself, but...It's hard to explain, but it was one of the most genuine books I've read in a long time, and the depth and realism of the humanity just really affected me... I wished I had someone to disucss the book with while I was reading it.
Like any book, it probably won't have that same effect on everyone, but I think it would be an excellent book club selection.