I’m looking for a good book for a Bookclub that is discussable and not about WWII.
I’m looking for a good book for a Bookclub that is discussable and not about WWII. Any thoughts?
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The Fifth Business
We just read Little fires everywhere
Did you all like it? It’s on my personal list to read
I did!! It was a little different but good.
Loving this…reading it now.
The Glass Castle
I so dislike this author but was a great discussion!
Really?? I loved this novel and the author! I had so much I wanted to talk about when I finished it!
@Annie Loved the novel- Disliked the author! But that’s what makes the world go around! Funfact- I live in the town it takes place in…
Interesting!! So, I’m intrigued. What is it with the author that you dislike?
@Annie i heard her speak at local book store … found her self serving at her families expense … a little holier than thou ….
I thought this was a memoir not a novel.
I can see how that would be a turn off, for sure.
It is, @Beth ?
Where Did You Go, Bernadette is a good jumping off point to discuss technology company’s role in our society, and family relationships. Evicted by Matthew Desmond, a non fiction study of housing and poverty is truly fascinating, lots of discussion material. Easy to read too!
The Mistress of Nothing. Or The Couple Next Door!
How was The Couple Next Door? I want to read it, but I wasn’t sure.
@Liz I liked it! Most of my book club had a difficult time stoping where we agreed each week so that’s a good sign! We finish it up (a week early) this Thursday night. I’m anxious for discussion because I didn’t see the very end coming. The other book is historical fiction and very good also.
Thank you. I might suggest this for my book club. ?
Is that by Shari Lapena? I am looking for some book club books also and hadn’t heard of this. We’re also a little tired of WWII.
@Diane yes it is.
Without you there is no us by Suki Kim we read this for our book club.
Pope Joan
Great book!
Our next book is The Storied Life of A. j. Fikrey
We have read that. Good book!
Just read his latest ! Young Jane Young !
My book club did that one
Our book club loved it.
I’ve heard Little Fires Everywhere is very good. A good discussion book is The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker. Everyone in my book club loved it and there was lots of discussion.
Thanks. I’m going to go with The Clay Girl!
Be sure to let me know how everyone enjoys it. Are you in the Toronto area by any chance? The author Heather Tucker will go to your book club. She came to ours and it was awesome!
The hate list. It is a hard topic, easy read, and will stay with you forever.
Small great things , hillbilly elegy
We have a lady in our club who does not read Piccoult. ?
@Yvonne i get that – this was an exceptional book
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
That is on my read list
To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield, Forever by Pete Hamill, The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime by Mark Haddon, The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore. I’ve tried to give you books that are very different from each other.
Forever is a very good book!
Love Forever!!!
Really enjoyed Forever
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Weve read this — good book!!
@Yvonne And my favorite book of all, which for some reason I didn’t include but should have is The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. It’s absolutely wonderful.
Our group did this last month- great discussion
One of my favorites!!
My book club all enjoyed Before We Were Yours
It’s already on our list.
1,000 White Women
I loved this book. The sequal is now out but I haven’t had a chance to read it.
My bookclub put this on our list for next year. Did you like it?
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace. Non fiction.
GREAT book and great pairing with Hilly Billy Elegy
Looks interesting. I am adding it to my TBR list.
Silence by Shusaku Endo
I love your criteria! I am so sick of WW2 books! My book club enjoyed Faithful, by Alice Hoffman.
Me too!
But so many of the current good books are about WWII
That looks great! It’s now on my list. Thanks
@Yvonne to me, good books and WW2, (or any war, for that matter) is an oxymoron ?
When breath Becomes Air
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Dark Matter….lots of what if?
I loved that book but was afraid others would not
@Yvonne you’re probably right….appeals to a certain type…
I’m in the middle of it and expired off my nook. I’m 10 on the wait list ? I’m really loving it. So interesting and suspenseful
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult sparked lots of interesting discussion at one of my book club meetings.
Rent Collector
This book will give you much to discuss….. love … betrayal…. innocence …. and a view into another way of life…..
Wow… that sounds really good
It is good …. sails along quite easily …. and lulls you along a path …. that ends up with many a turn and twist …. it is an easy read …. so good for a group …. it is the issues it covers that make good food for thought …. /….. discussion…..
I really appreciate all these suggestions!
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
We are reading this for our book club and many are struggling with it. Boring.
@Laura Encourage them to keep reading.
Totally loved this book by the end
@Yvonne ok good. That’s what I need to hear!
That was also my first idea, based on the past year in a book group.
@Laura yes, keep Reading. It has a bit of a slow start.
I need to put on my thinking cap lol
The Last Hours by Minette Walters, Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke or Paper Daisies by Kim Kelly
We are currently reading Kindred by Octavia Butler and it is terrific
Loved this…great discussion.
Lots of good discussion on this one and very current:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25362017-the-girl-with-seven-names
Station Eleven!!!!
I loved Station Eleven!
Unbroken… might seem like it would be alternatingly boring and or gorey but it is capitavitingly written without losing it’s credibility and it is a testament to endurance, faith and forgiveness.
loved the book and the movie
But it is about WWII, which she didn’t want? I adored this book. I learned so much!
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie…her 1st book or Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill.
The Summer That Melted Everything
Room by Emma Donaghue
In The Language Of Miracles, Salvage The Bones, Blindness, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
I’m reading Celeste Ng”s new book Little Fires Everywhere which would be a great book club book. Lots of controversial topics which would encourage a good discussion. I am liking this book a lot and had a hard time putting it down to get to sleep last night. ??
We are reading The Dinner!
https://www.amazon.com/Dinner-Herman-Koch/dp/0385346859
Read that one. I liked it. Along the lines of this, have you read, “Defending Jacob”? That’s a good one too!
@Liz , yes! Loved that one!
The garden of burning sand
we started off my book club with ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- to date it’s one of the best conversations we’ve had in the book club
I’m reading sade of vampire series. It’s currently on book 52 with 2 sub series along with it
My book club read Blindness by Saramago and even years later, after the club has disbanded, we still talk about it. Another that we got excellent discussion from is Fahrenheit 451. Also quite appropo for a book club.
Just read The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See. I thought it was amazing.
Before We were Yours by Lisa Wingate. Historical fiction and so interesting.
This was an awesome book!
kitchens of the great midwest.
Any book by Lisa Genova.
She has a new one coming in spring! I’m so excited! I loved Left Neglected, which is much less known than Still Alice. She is amazingly talented to be able to use her background in neuroscience (I think that’s what it is) and create such well-written stories about theses topics.
My book group loved News of the World. November selection is Turner House. Just started Girl Waits with Gun, fun, interesting read…
I loved News of the World
The Good Thief
Peony In Love by Lisa See- youth, mother/daughter, daughter/father, death, afterlife, mysticism, feminism, beautiful book.
Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Travelling Funeral by Kris Radish
Medicine Walk by Richard Wegamsse
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon