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My turn to choose our next book group book - suggestions please!

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brandnewnickname · 04/08/2012 20:14

Not sure what to choose for our next book group. Would obviously like to pick something I shall enjoy myself! I tend to prefer stuff set second half of twentieth century or later and am not generally keen on "fantasy" type books. Am currently really enjoying "Frankie and Stankie" by Barbara Trapido. Other books that I have really enjoyed were "Notes on a Scandal", "The Help" and "We need to talk about Kevin". So trying to analyse from those what kind of books I like, I suppose I would say books with a dry sense of humour and characters who are not cliches and which have something to say about the wider society in which they are set. All suggestions welcome!

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busyboysmum · 04/08/2012 21:26

I enjoyed Water for Elephants which we did last month and am half way through Any Human Heart which is also good.

brandnewnickname · 04/08/2012 21:22

Thank you for the recommendations. Have googled them and am particularly drawn to Black Swan Green - perhaps because I was a 13-year-old in 1982!

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YouBloodyWolf · 04/08/2012 20:59

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell is very good -a year in the life of a 13 year old boy growing up in a Wiltshire village in the 1980s.

fivegomadindorset · 04/08/2012 20:58

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

brandnewnickname · 04/08/2012 20:55

No, haven't read Rules of Civility. Will check it out.

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NoraHelmer · 04/08/2012 20:34

Have you read Rules of Civility by Amor Towles?

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