Choosing the shortlist for our Book Club this month and have left it a bit too late to consider properly

[DarrellRivers]

I need some slightly off the beaten track suggestions, the aim of our club is to read books which we wouldn't normally choose ourselves to broaden our horizons.
We have just read 'The Restraint of Beasts' by Magnus Mills which I would never have picked off the shelves and I did enjoy it
And the 3 I am thinking of so far are so me and so a little predictable

The Line of Beauty-Alan Hollinghurst
In Cold Blood-Truman Capote
or Oryx and Crake by Margaret Attwood-we love a dystopian theme in our club

Any fab innovative suggestions

The Sisters brothers really enjoyed it

Yes, now that is one I wouldn't pick
And would fit with the Truman Capote
The Sisters Brothers

Any other suggestions gratefully received

if it is a female book group, try "The red tent" by anita diamant, our book club loved it.

No we have quite a few men.
Which I find quite good in introducing me to authors I wouldn't normally choose.
Perhaps we need the Margaret Attwood!

Have you read Rivers of London? I really enjoyed it - very funny - and is written by a Dr Who writer.

The English Patient

Kate Grenville's The Secret River

The graphic novel Persepolis - I would really recommend this one: it will give your club loads to discuss!

Postcards

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Children of Men - not that off the beaten track but an excellent example of dystopian fiction.

Never Let Me Go - again, quite mainstream since the film but another dystopian one.

Woman On The Edge Of Time by Marge Piercey - dystopian, utopian, feminist, LOADS to discuss

Or Riddley Walker - the best dystopian novel I 've read. Really superb.

Thank-you so much for all the suggestions. We have read the Marge Piercey already in a previous Club, in fact we probably have read too many dystopian novels but we can't seem to resist.

I also like the look of Persepolis and Postcards
Thank-you thank-you, we are going to have the best short list to choose from this month.

I was wondering about some other stuff perhaps The Summer Book by Tove Janssen here

How about Louis de Bernieres Latin America trilogy? Less well known than Captain Corelli, but very worth a read, and a lovely example of magical realism.

DH read White by Marie Darrieussecq recently. He said it was the strangest book he'd ever read. Apparently it's narrated by ghosts. Certainly one that could lead to plenty of discussion :o

Ones we've read recently and enjoyed are:

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (has a pink cover but not chicklit)
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna

Glad you like the look of The Sisters Brothers because that is my choice for our bookclub .

The Margaret Atwood is fantastic - I have just asked for it in our book group.

Our book group is reading A Line of Beauty at the moment - meeting is tonight and I think it will be a good discussion.

We did Oryx & Crake a couple of years ago (think I set it) and it divided the group, which I think always makes for the most interesting discussions.