Book recommendations for book club

[Cocochai]

Could I please have any recommendations of books that you’ve read or that your book club enjoyed?

It’s soon to be my turn to choose a book and my last choice was so unpopular (was a bit embarrassed 🙁).

We’ve already read:
There’s something funny about Norman Foreman (my choice)
The Paper Palace
How to stop time
Midnight Library
Nutshell
Trespass
The Choice
A Beautiful Spy
Moonflower Murders

Our recent books have been;
And then there were none
The Island of missing trees
The Lighthouse witches
The school for good mothers

The favourite from those was The Island of Missing Trees.

Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Girl with the Louding Voice

Where the Crawdads Sing- Delia Owens
Quite like PP in my opinion

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Gavin Extence: both The Universe Versus Alex Woods and The End Of Time have lots of talking points, but aren’t too weighty.

I'm responsible for a Library Reading Group service and these are titles that a lot of our groups liked.

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
One Hundred Years of Lennie and Margo by Marguerite Cronin
Piranesi by Susannah Clark
Hamnet by Maggie o Farrell

The Beekeeper of Allepo

We get a list from the library once a year and we each choose 15 titles. The library send us 12 of those. It works well, although sometimes we get a book we all hate and deny that any of us voted for! 😂

We enjoyed A Midwinter Break by Bernard Maclaverty
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
I think A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe would make a good book for discussion but it is very sad.

Thanks everyone for your recommendations and I’ve put these on a list of suggestions for our club.

I wondered how other people find book clubs when they don’t like the book - do people persevere reading it anyway or abandon it? We have a real mix of what people do.

Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia was an interesting read

Personally I'll stick with a book if the reading list is generally enjoyable, or skim through the remainder if it comes to it. But I have been in a book club where a majority didn't like a couple of titles, and we ended up turning the discussion into more of a critique/fact-finding mission of what to avoid in future.

The Giver of Stars

I've just listened to A Terrible Kindness and while I quite enjoyed it, it felt misrepresented on the blurb.

Still Life
Betty
Lessons in chemistry
Born a Crime

These have been our recent ones

We all loved Hamnett.
Also Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

Larchfield by Polly Clark
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin , both hits at my book group.

Another vote for Still Life by Sarah Winman

Small Pleasures Clare Chambers

Loved this book !

I recommend 'beauty' by Danielle Steel, very inspirational message about beauty being only skin deep.

Lessons in Chemistry
All my mothers
Hello beautiful

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood , brilliant book.

Rodham and American Wife both by Curtis Sittenfield.

Lessons in Chemistry is OK, not great. Just OK.

Go as a river. One of the best books I've ever had. Will have you weeping and jumping for joy

Anything by Anne Tyler goes down well with our group.
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie was our last book, well worth a read.