Need a book club suggestion?

[disney5]

Help...I need to suggest a book at my next meeting for the following one.
What have you or your book club read that you really enjoyed??

 

[jennilynn510]

Help...I need to suggest a book at my next meeting for the following one.
What have you or your book club read that you really enjoyed??

my sisters keeper by jodi piocult

WARNING.....tear jerker !!!

 

[mjantz]

If you haven't read 'The Time Traveler's Wife', I highly recommend it. It is rare that a book makes me emotional but 'TTTW' did. I also recommend:

-Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (end of the world, but its funny)
-The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (Salem witch trials)
-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Murder mystery)
-The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (woman researching her family tree)
-The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
-My Life as a Furry Red Monster by Kevin Clash (voice & puppeteer of Elmo)
-Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (note that this one has some language in it)

I'm not in any kind of book club but I read like its going out of style so I hope this helps.

 

[JennSaint]

I'm in a book club in my neighborhood in fact tonight is our meeting (really turns into a party LOL). Here is a list of some of the books we have read:

The Other Boleyn Girl
Whacked
One Fifth Avenue
The Memory Keepers Daughter
Plain Truth

We've read many more I'm just having a mind block.
I also read the Janet Evanich Plum series the first book is One For the Money.

Good luck in deciding there are a ton of good books out there!

 

[nunzia]

When I was in a book club we drifted from the standard fare and read Lightning by Dean Koontz. Try Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (I read they are making a movie out of it starring DiCaprio) He also wrote Mystic River which is great. His new book is The Given Day.

 

[minniebeth]

My suggestion would be Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See.
It is a really good book and great for group discussions!

 

[chocovrdmicears]

I just finished Water For Elephants. Excellent book.

I am currently reading Lovely Bones and it is FLIPPING me out. As a Mom to a DD I am really having a hard time reading it.

Oh..And I finally got around to reading EAT LOVE PRAY..finished is a couple of weeks ago...it was a little tough to get through at times, but I am really glad I read it. Very inspirational!

 

[JeannieNM]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Woa by Junot Diaz
Their Eyes Are Watching God
The Secret Life of Bees
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett (Any of her books)

Also I agree with the others
Water for Elephants
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

 

[MEM]

I am currently reading Lovely Bones and it is FLIPPING me out. As a Mom to a DD I am really having a hard time reading it.

I felt the same way and I never bothered to finish the book. Life is too short to read about such misery, IMHO.

 

[peggster]

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction? One of my favorite (fiction) authors is Gail Godwin, and I think my favorite of her books is Father Melancholy's Daughter.

For non-fiction, two books I would recommend for good discussion are Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and Not Buying It: My Year without Shopping by Judith Levine.

Hope that helps!

 

[meeskamouska]

My suggestion would be Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See.
It is a really good book and great for group discussions!

YES!!!! Wonderful book!!!

 

[chocovrdmicears]

I felt the same way and I never bothered to finish the book. Life is too short to read about such misery, IMHO.

You know something?... duh..What am I thinking?!?!?! I need to stop reading it and return it to the library today. It has been incredibly painful & difficult to read (in terms of emotions) It is seriously haunting me! It gave me nightmares last night. You are 100% right..life is too short to torture myself like this. Thanks for the voice of reason.

 

[NaplesRI]

I would like to second the rec for Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. I just finsihed it, and it was my first Jodi Picoult book- I am already looking to order others. What a great book, and it would be good for a book club, IMHO.
Good luck!

 

[hideeh]

That is if your group hasn't already read it.

Any one have any luck with Three Cups of Tea? I can not get in to it, yet it has spent so much time on the Best Seller list and many people like it. Keep trying???

 

[hsmamato2]

water for elephants-very good- Jody Picoult-'change of heart'- I liked it best of all of hers so far-
Lovely bones,took me 3 tries to finish it, but I understand,I stopped reading 3 different books last week b/c I found them disturbing,so stop if you don't like it or it gives you bad feelings........
I was reading one called 'my sister my love'-had to stop,it was awful- along with anything by Dean Koontz or Chris Bohjalian....ugh.
I loved a book called 'the art of racing in the rain'-really good.........
books are for your pleasure,if yu're not enjoying it,read a different book! I always take at least 6 at a time from the library,and get to the end of at least half,if I like them........

 

[momandkidslovedisney]

I have liked most of the books people mentioned in other posts. Here are a few of my favorites!

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (this is MY ALL TIME favorite book)
he Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Nefertiti (I can't remember the author)
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Happy reading.

 

[ptlycloudy]

My club just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, it was so well liked that many of us are giving it as Christmas gifts!

 

[sb1997]

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult


This was an excellent book. I think every parent and teacher should read this.

 

[snowbunny]

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

 

[unionville]

Favorites from my book club over the past couple of years:

The Last Lecture
Kite Runner
The Glass Castle
Water for Elephants
Nineteen Minutes
Night
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Three Cups of Tea
Secret Life of Bees
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
The Shack
Memory Keepers Daughter