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your top ten novels you would recommend if starting a book club

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tiredlady · 27/07/2008 22:42

sorry if this has been done before, but I am going to start a book club, and was wondering what books you would recommend?

That's all

Thanks

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MaloryTowersUrbaniteLady · 27/07/2008 23:00

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tiredlady · 27/07/2008 22:59

Thankyou malory towers. Will go and check that out

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tiredlady · 27/07/2008 22:58

"does that MEAN I am the boss" I meant of course.

How did you all choose your members?
What happens if someone new wants to join? Is it very fluid?

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bundle · 27/07/2008 22:57

good to have a mix - some current reads and some classics

just finished Engleby, thought it was fantastic

UnderRated · 27/07/2008 22:55

Cormac MacCarthy - The Road. But is not a feel-good book. Thought-provoking but a bit bleak.

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tiredlady · 27/07/2008 22:55

Thankyou ladies. I shall bear your recommendations in mind.

Now, could someone tell me if there is such a thing as book club etiquette.

If I am starting it and inviting people to join, does that I am the boss!

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pollywobbledoodle · 27/07/2008 22:54

i can read but i can't count

pollywobbledoodle · 27/07/2008 22:53

you could let your group make a suggestion or two each...

my faves of the last year or so

bel canto...ann pratchett
ghostwritten by the cloud atlas man
engleby...sebastien faulks
the uncommon reader...alan bennett
mother tongue...bill bryson (not a novel, abot origins of the english language)
random acts of heroic love...danny somebody
the book thief
alias grace...margaret atwood
hundred years of solitude/love in the time of cholera gabriel garcia marquez

MaloryTowersUrbaniteLady · 27/07/2008 22:50

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mazzystar · 27/07/2008 22:49

the corrections by jonathan franzen
v entertaining and loads to talk about

MaloryTowersUrbaniteLady · 27/07/2008 22:46

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tiredlady · 27/07/2008 22:44

Hmmm, maybe 10 is asking too much.

Your top five?

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