What books can I recommend for my book club?

fisil · 2006-04-26T16:11:34+00:00

We seem to be losing our way and I am not looking forward to anything on the list for the next few months. So suggestions please. We have a wide range of ages and even some men!

CarolinaMoonfish · 26/04/2006 17:13

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

It is fab - funny and sad and really eerie in parts.

Coolmama · 26/04/2006 17:22

most of the books by Jodie Piccoult - The Pact, My Sister's Keeper etc - all quite discussion-provoking, particularly the sister one -
If you like historical novels - Ian Pears' "The Instant of the the Fingerpost" - fabulous murder mystrey set in Restoration England -

Original poster

fisil · 26/04/2006 18:51

thanks.

any more?

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niceglasses · 26/04/2006 18:55

I was working in a bshop that ran bookclubs. I know they have been looking at

Five people you meet in heaven

We need to talk about Kevin

Labaryinth (sp)

Will try and think of more. Sorry haven't read any myself. Last one I really enjoyed was Stasiland - brill.

littlerach · 26/04/2006 19:01

one hundred and one days, same aothor as Bookseller of Kabul. Fab book.

The new margaret Forster one.

tamula · 26/04/2006 19:12

The Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Highly recommended.

ItalianJob · 26/04/2006 19:14

Small Island by Andrea Levy
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

what sort of books do you like, Fisil?

Pfer · 26/04/2006 19:40

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka.

One of the Daily Mail book club selections, they called it 'Mad and Hilarious' and I would completely agree. A Great read.

Libra · 26/04/2006 19:52

Agree with A Small Island but also The Red Tent.
Actually the best discussion we have had at our reading group has been with Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. We all loathed Alias Grace but at least it gave us lots to talk about.

desperatehousewife · 26/04/2006 20:17

39 steps
hangover square by patrick hamilton
brighton rock
end of the affair

Elf1981 · 26/04/2006 20:20

Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes. I'd say all of her books to be honest, espcially this and Rachels Holiday.
Any Jodi Picoult book too

willyumsmummy · 26/04/2006 20:23

Agree with the following
Five people you meet in heaven
We need to talk about Kevin
Small Island by Andrea Levy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
but would add anagrams (which another mnetter recommended)

willyumsmummy · 26/04/2006 20:23

Agree with the following
Five people you meet in heaven
We need to talk about Kevin
Small Island by Andrea Levy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
but would add anagrams (which another mnetter recommended)

willyumsmummy · 26/04/2006 20:23

Agree with the following
Five people you meet in heaven
We need to talk about Kevin
Small Island by Andrea Levy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
but would add anagrams (which another mnetter recommended)

clerkKent · 27/04/2006 12:31

desperatehousewife - are you a Graham Greene fan? There was a time when I read practically nothing else.

joelalie · 28/04/2006 13:58

I second Alias Grace although any by Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eyes is my favourite). I also love Woman on the Edge of Time by Madge Peircy (sp?).

CarmenH · 28/04/2006 14:08

Five people you meet in heaven and We need to talk about Kevin are both very interesting. 26a by Diana Evans and The History of Love by Nicole Krauss are others that I have read recently. What about Arthur and George by Julian Barnes? I wasn't convinced it would be my kind of thing but it is very well written and researched and I did enjoy it. I was disappointed by On Beauty by Zadie Smith.

MinkyCustard · 28/04/2006 20:55

Our book club have just read The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel, and Music and Silence by Rose Tremain, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - couldn't put any of them down!

Next book club read for May, is The Valley of Horses by Jean M Auel - the sequel to The Clan of the Cave Bear.

We tend to choose books off the Top 100 Favourite Books that the BBC ran a few years ago and while there are some really dodgy ones most have been quite good.

The Time Traveller's wife by Audrey Niffenegger is fab too and I loved My Sister's Keeper and Rachel's Holiday!

eidsvold · 29/04/2006 10:42

Recently read 'The Lincoln Lawyer' by Michael Connelly - lawyer, crimey thing.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

To Kill a Mockingbird

Something by Bryce Courtney - \link{http://www.brycecourtenay.com/bryce.asp\here}
Power of One is a good one or

April Fool's Day (t is the story of Damon, my youngest son, who was born a haemophiliac and, at the age of seventeen, received a blood transfusion (among the many thousands he'd had in his life) except that this one contained the HIV virus. He died of AIDS six years later. Damon was so appalled at the public apathy as well as lack of sympathy for those gay people who contracted the AIDS virus that he begged me to write a book. "Dad, tell them it's only a virus and not a punishment from God." I repeatedly told him I wasn't up to the task, it was a book I couldn't write as it would expose him, his brothers and mother, our whole life to public scrutiny.)