Help! Its my book club tommorrow night and its my turn to choose the book, ideas please

[pepsi]

This will be the groups 4th book, and now its my turn to choose, there will be 6 of us. So, can you recommened a good page turner thats not too sad thats got lots to discuss. We have read We Need to Talk about Keven, the Kite Runner and the the Empress Orchid, I wasnt keen on the latter but the first two had loads to talk about. Thanks.

Oryx and Crake was excellent and totally thought provoking.

If you wanted an old classic, Brave New World is good by Aldous Huxley. I think I must be doing my post apocolypse thing right now!

Twilight

Slightly lighter but brill with loads of layers - The Ice Child, ? Mcgregor. Will google. fab - thought provoking, real human interest stuff. And not a Book Club Classic type either.

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Yeah, the book thief or notes on a scandal were both good for discussion. As would be one of the "donor" novels (my group somehow ended up reading both, which was peculiar): either my sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult (sibling conceived and born in order to donate organs to ill sister) or never let me go by Ishiguru (children born and raised to be organ donors - much more chilling than Picoult).

Elizabeth McGregor. Twas shite. Trawled through it hopeingit would get better.

I hated "Never Let Me Go" - sorry, Boogeek. Hated "The Remains Of The Day" too though.

Well, having some people in the group who hate the books makes for interesting discussions!
(Provided they don't do what one lady in my old group did and steer every single _conversation around to Harry Potter.)

boogeek, how on earth did she manage that? lol

pepsi, what did you choose in the end?

LOL you'd be amazed.
(She used to rage about the fact that book...6 I think?...didn't have enough school stuff in it "and there isn't even a whole quidditch match")
No wonder I left.

We had a great discussion about Great Expectations and I really really enjoyed reading it - and I'm not generally a Dickens person.
Echo recommendations for Notes on an Exhibition, Never let me go, and Notes on a Scandal.

Bel Canto by Ann Patchet
My group just read it on another group's recommendation, and we all loved it.

Just finished Notes on a scandal - definately some discussion starters there. Brilliant.

If you can cope with bleak ... The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood is another good one with plenty to discuss

Unless by Carol Shields, likewise

What did you chose?

Prob a bit late to say, but we've just read Q&A by Vikas Swarup. About a young Indian waiter who wins the Indian equivalent of "Who wants to be a millionaire". No one believes he could of known all the answers, and each chapter is about one question and what had happened to him in his life to make him know the answer. Very cleverly written and not one I would have picked up. It's my turn to chose next week and I'm a bit stumped so have enjoyed seeing the ideas here. Was thinking of The Time Traveller's wife but might look into some of the others listed above.

I have enjoyed reading A Young Man's Passage by Julian Clary recently. Makes a change from anything baby or parenthood related.

Restitution by E Graham. It's quite new. Discussion points include the treatment of women civilians in times of war; the German resistance as an effective opposition to Hitler. But there's also a big love story or two.