We've just started our book club and I need suggestions for our next book. So far, we have read "Angry Housewifes' Eating Bon Bons" By Lorna Landvik, and "The Tenth Circle" By Jodi Picoult.
It's my choice to pick the next book and I have no idea what to choose. I find that I am really enjoying the Jodi Picoult books, however I want to try a different author.
Thanks!
In our book club we just finished reading the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. We are reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortrnson and David Oliver Relin. The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards is also a good book.
We love Jodi Picoult books too. She has so many great books.
Have Fun!
In our book club, we're reading The Shack by William P Young, and it's a mind-bender and great for discussion.
I don't know what kind of books you like but I love books by Sara Paretsky.
I just finished a really good book that my Mom's bookclub read called Between, Georgia. Not sure who wrote it but its a newer book so I should not be hard to find. Also another of my favs was Water for Elephants.
Good luck
Heidi
I love Karen Kingsbury books. I've read several of her books, you can't go wrong with them.
http://karenkingsbury.com
I LOVELOVELOVE "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. It's very deep and tragic though. Here is a summary I got online:
"The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death. The novel received a great deal of critical praise and became an instant bestseller. A film adaptation of the novel is currently in production and is being directed by Peter Jackson, who personally purchased the rights."
Go here for more details:
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones
Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Lovely Bones, Water for Elephants, Secret Life of Bees, Poisonwood Bible, The Red Tent, The Life of Pi,
If you want to try something a little different, I have several friends who found "Freakonomics" to be fascinating. There is definitely a lot of fodder for discussion!
I have a PDF copy of Suze Orman's Woman and Money I downloaded for free off Oprah's website a few months ago. It's 274 pages I think. You can forward to all your friends and the don't have to purchase this one.. Send me a message with your e-mail if you would like for me to e-mail it to you. I really enjoyed it. And with today's economy, we need all the tips we can get!
You might check your local library. My library (in Irving) has book club kits that come with multiple copies of a book, along with discussion questions and other stuff.
Here are a few of the best I've read recently:
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
Let us know what you choose....I'm always looking for a good recommendation myself. :-)
Love my book club... but I won't read certain books listed here... like Lovely Bones... I don't do well with violent deaths, so I avoid reading about them. And my group read Lovely Bones and Lucky (the biographical story of the author of Lovely Bones) together and I wouldn't do it. I know my limits! With that said we just read The Shack and I was hysterical and sobbing for weeks... good book but I have a low threshold.
We've read so many and I don't like Jodi Picault but I loved Lorna Lidvik ... but here's some of my favorites...
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Marc Haddon
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Alchemist by Paulo Cuehlo
The Red Tent by Anita Diamante
Birth of Venus by Susan Durant
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Something a little lighter that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned is the Twilight series from Stephenie Meyer.
There are 4 books in the series and each one gets better & better! Most people who read these books can't put them down and you find yourself finishing a book in two days, or less!!! I've personally got several people to read them and everyone has LOVED them and finished all 4 in record time!
The books in order are:
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
The books are basically a Romeo & Juliet type love-story, set in modern day, with a twist. The movie comes out right before Thanksgiving, so hurry and then you all can go see the movie!
I have read several Nicolas Sparks books and love all of them. My favorite is The Notebook.
These are some books my bookclub has read: "Life of Pi" , " The Kiterunner", "The Memory Keeper's Daughter", "Devil in the White City", "Parallel Play", "Crunchy Cons", "Blue Shoe","The Year of Magical Thinking, "Thirteen Moons", "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night", "The Secret Life of Bees", "True Evil", Redeeming Love", Eat, Pray, Love", "Friday Night Knitting Club" and "700 Sundays".
The Aviance of Poetry - Poetry for the Soul
Google Marcella Darman-King.
This is an inspirational and uplifting poetry book for the young and old at heart.
This book was wrote by yours truly.
MARCELLA DARMAN-KING
suzanne's diary for nicholas is one of the best yet. I'm reading the twilight series now. The good earth was pretty good too.