Need a book club suggestion?

[PatriciaH]

Our book club liked:

Water For Elephants
The Girl With The Pearl Earing
Fahrenheit 451 (love Ray Bradbury)
Marley and Me
Magical Thinking (I liked OK)

I liked recently:

The Road
A Long Way Gone

 

[nunzia]

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!

I really liked Nickel and Dimed, but had some problems with Not Buying It..I thought it really was a political book promoted as a simpler lifestyle book. The author made fun of alot of people's beliefs, but justified that her 30+ dollar haricut was a requirement..really disappointed in that one.

 

[nunzia]

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[nunzia]

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........

Ohh..you should read some recent Koontz..Like The Corner of His Eye, The Good Guy, The Husband, The Taking, Light of the Moon..he has said his biggest regret was writing a horror novel and being forever classified as such. He writes alot of very thought provoking books now. The Odd Thomas series is wonderful too. You should really give him another chance.

 

[BusyMom2Three]

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Cider House Rules by John Irving

 

[grammynelliebelle]

How about Friday Night Knitting Club? Grammy