Need a book club recommendation .. nothing Holocaust related, no sci fi! TIA!
Need a book club rec … nothing Holocaust related, no sci fi!! TIA!!
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Need a book club rec … nothing Holocaust related, no sci fi!! TIA!!
We are okay by nina
If you want something deep and thoughtful, anything by Amy Tan. My book club did the Joy Luck Club last year, and then watched the movie.
Wonderful book !
If you want something funnier, maybe Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood?
Read that as well- if you liked that try “where’d you go Bernadette “ and “Young Jane Young”
a boy in striped pajamas
That is a WWII story isn’t it?
Apparently I’ve read a lot of books ! Keep me coming
The Complete Father Brown stories by G.K. Chesterton.
Crime And Punishment
In Cold Blood
The Plot Against America
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Kitchens of the Great Mid-West…
The fault in our stars
Cathy glass is good x
Divergent
Sea of Tranqulity… YA. Everyone in my book club loved it.
Some of the YA stuff is better than alot of the “adult” offerings. I always check the teen section.
The Last Mrs Parrish
“Tattoos on the Heart” by Gregory Boyle. “Lamb: The Gospel According to Bif, Christ’s Childhood Pal” by Christopher Moore. “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving. “The Book Thief: by Markus Zusak. “Commonweath” by Ann Patchett. All very different – but guaranteed to spark some great discussions! Enjoy!
Read three and liked them so great recs ! Thanks !
The Book Thief is wonderful, but it is holocaust-themed.
@Kathleen you’re right. My apologies.
@Debi it was an amazing book! Just saturated
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.
My next pic for my BC is Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Have not read it but it gets good reviews.
I loved those characters and the way the story developed.
News of the World, Girl Waits With Gun, Martin, Marten or Chicago by Brian Doyle. My book group loved them all!
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
It is a lovely story.
Loved that one!
Tisha – a young teacher goes to the Alaska wilderness to work. Nonfiction
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Loved Homegoing!
Just read it as i was in Africa this summer – LOVED
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie….. fabulous book and will generate great discussion ??
I have to say … I have a love/hate reaction when people ask for recommendations. My need-to-read list just grows … and grows … and grows. ????
I totally understand. I have stopped looking at them all. Obviously, this one I looked at lmao
@Cassandra ?
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood. I guarantee plenty to talk about!
Just finished that – wow, great book, powerful.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KGZVTOE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_eCzgAbWSBTBBZ
I LOVED this book! One of my favorites of the year
I just finished it…highly recommend it.
I really liked it too!!!
What Alice Forgot.
A Man Called Ove, People of the Book, Master Butcher’s Singing Club
Loved People of the Book
Loved A Man Called Ove
People of the Book is one of my all-time favorites!
The Language Of Flowers
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng or Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. Two of the more memorable books I’ve read this year.
The Supremes at Earls All You Can Eat by Edward-Kelsey-Moore or The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Both those were loved by my book club.
11/22/63 by Stephen King is one of my favorites of all time.
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
News of the world
Pope Joan
The new Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere is excellent and there would be a bunch to talk about in group!
What Is the What and A Civil Action both stand out as book club faves.
AJ Fikry
Loved this book and the new one !!
Great kitchens of the Midwest
I am in two book clubs. In one we are reading The Dinner, in the other we are reading The Lilac Girls.
My bookclub just read The Rooster Bar by John Grisham. Or Camino Island, same author. Both excellent.
Homegoing
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. Not new but a great book.
This sounds interesting. Have you read The Madonnas of Leningrad.
@Mary I did read the Madonnas of Leningrad and enjoyed it very much. Cellist is similar (with the siege theme) but also very different. Told from 4 different points of view. Very powerful. It’s a book that stays with you. I rarely reread books, but I read it twice.
Poisonwood Bible is one of my all time favorites but it is an older book. Also loved Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Mary: Mrs. A Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
Have you read Flowers For Algernon???
Sure have !
Non-fiction Brain on Fire
My book club read that and it was a good discussion
Hunger, a memoir. Roxane Gay
Thanks all!!! Have quite the list !
Wait! The Hate You Give!!!! Please read this. It would generate great discussion, but if it’s too much for the group….do it yourself!!!
@Carolyn it was amazing !!!!!!!!
A Man In Moscow. Excellent.
@Elizabeth a man or gentleman ?
Gentleman, sorry
News of the World; October Sky; Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart. An amazing book.
The Forgotten Garden
Ines of My Soul – Isabel Allende
Loving Che- Ana Menendez
Norwegian Wood- Murakami
Kafka on Shore- Murakami
Wild sheep Chase- Murakami
I’ve never read Murakami! Always wanted to-do you suggest one over the other ?
I just finished the Wind Up Bird Chronicle- Murakami an hour ago, those 3 are my favorites, have a good time reading @Gila!
The Rome Affair by Karen Swan. Great book.
The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain is good too. Has a couple of dramatic twists in it.
Rent Collector or Language of Flowers
Americana
Yes, loved it.
“The Muse” by Jesse Burton and I am reviewing “When She Woke” by Hillary Jordon for one of my Bookclubs…looking for a lively discussion…kind of a modern Scarlet Letter.