Book Club Suggestions

clarabelle

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Must be in paperback -or out long enough to easily find a used copy
No self help
No romance

Any ideas?
Thanks for any suggestions!
 
Hmm - The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Snowflower and the Secret Fan, The Lovely Bones, 19 Minutes, The Red Tent, She's Come Undone...
 

We did the Color of Water -and you are right -it is a great book. One of my all-time favorites
 
The most recent book I enjoyed was The Given Day by Dennis Lehane.

I try to get through a book a week, but lately most of what I have been reading I have been disappointed in.
 
My book club read Water for Elephants and liked it. We also picked Loving Frank. That got mixed reviews.
 
Thanks!
Keep them coming
It is getting harder for me to come up with new things -even the new books seem like they are very similar to something we have done already
 
The Last Time They Met......Anita Shreve :thumbsup2

it even has suggestions for book club discussion in the back
 
The Guersney Potatoe Peel Pie Society (very easy read--good for December when everyone's time is limited:thumbsup2)

Others which made for good discussions in our gruop:
The Hero's Walk
Woman with Birthmark
The Hour I First Believed
In Defense of Food
The Memory of Running
Three Cups of Tea
 
Okay, here's two *different* books that will certainly make an impact on you and get your book club talking. They are also outside all the mainstream stuff that is out there but easy enough to read. Forgive me, but I cannot recall the authors.

Still Alice This is a GREAT book written by a doctor, who has had personal experience with Alzheimer's Disease. The author wrote the book from the perspective of one of the "younger" patients who gets Alzheimer's. Alice is the woman and she is 50 years old when odd things start happening to her and she gets her diagnosis. The story is told through her all the way through to the most devastating parts of the disease. It's one of the books that kind of stays with you.

There's Something About Kevin This is another book that stays with you. This is a story of parents who have a child, Kevin, and he's just not quite right from the beginning. The mother knows it and its anguishing to read about her getting through motherhood with what is going on. The book has a fairly bad outcome but is extremely thought provoking in regards to mental illness, nature versus nurture, etc.
 
Kitchen God's Wife
I don't remember the full title but I do remeber it along the lines of "Angry Housewives Eating Chocolate" or something around those lines
Where the Heart is
Savannah Blues
 
Okay, here's two *different* books that will certainly make an impact on you and get your book club talking. They are also outside all the mainstream stuff that is out there but easy enough to read. Forgive me, but I cannot recall the authors.

Still Alice This is a GREAT book written by a doctor, who has had personal experience with Alzheimer's Disease. The author wrote the book from the perspective of one of the "younger" patients who gets Alzheimer's. Alice is the woman and she is 50 years old when odd things start happening to her and she gets her diagnosis. The story is told through her all the way through to the most devastating parts of the disease. It's one of the books that kind of stays with you.

There's Something About Kevin This is another book that stays with you. This is a story of parents who have a child, Kevin, and he's just not quite right from the beginning. The mother knows it and its anguishing to read about her getting through motherhood with what is going on. The book has a fairly bad outcome but is extremely thought provoking in regards to mental illness, nature versus nurture, etc.

I loved Still Alice! :thumbsup2
 
Okay, here's two *different* books that will certainly make an impact on you and get your book club talking. They are also outside all the mainstream stuff that is out there but easy enough to read. Forgive me, but I cannot recall the authors.

Still Alice This is a GREAT book written by a doctor, who has had personal experience with Alzheimer's Disease. The author wrote the book from the perspective of one of the "younger" patients who gets Alzheimer's. Alice is the woman and she is 50 years old when odd things start happening to her and she gets her diagnosis. The story is told through her all the way through to the most devastating parts of the disease. It's one of the books that kind of stays with you.

There's Something About Kevin This is another book that stays with you. This is a story of parents who have a child, Kevin, and he's just not quite right from the beginning. The mother knows it and its anguishing to read about her getting through motherhood with what is going on. The book has a fairly bad outcome but is extremely thought provoking in regards to mental illness, nature versus nurture, etc.

:thumbsup2 A good, though fairly disturbing, book.

Some other suggestions:

Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
Sacred Time, by Ursula Hegi
Blue Diary, by Alice Hoffman
The Clock Winder, by Anne Tyler
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, by Don Robertson
Burdon of Desire, by Robert MacNeil
 
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay It is slightly fantasy but I didn't find it to be overdone. Lots to discuss about hate and vengeance and love, and how far you will go in the name of each
 
Thanks everyone
I appreciate you taking the time to answer
I will check out the other thread too.
:)
 













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