Our library just got a $500 grant to purchase 10 titles for book clubs. We'll get 8 copies of each book. The committee meets next week to select titles. Just to give you some idea, here's what we've read (so we won't be purchasing) and very much enjoyed.
My Antonia;
East of Eden;
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time;
Pope Joan;
Kite Runner;
Memiors of a Geisha;
Cain River;
The Poisonwood Bible;
The Return of the Native;
A Prayer for Owen Meany;
The Bonesetter's Daughter;
Alias Grace;
The Red Tent
2007-03-28 09:49:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (nonfiction)
2. The Glass Castle: A Memoir
3. The Lady and the Panda: THe True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
4. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (it's hilarious)
5. Arthur and George (historical fiction)
These have all been published in 2006, so hopefully they wouldn't have been read by groups yet. Plus, the nonfiction draws in the male readers. Sounds like fun!!!
2007-04-04 07:06:03 · answer #1 · answered by bibliobethica 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Foer
The Fixer: A Novel by Bernard Malamud
Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
2007-03-28 10:18:31 · answer #2 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Books by utilising Joanne Harris A Raisin contained in the sunlight by utilising Lorraine Hansberry Agatha Christie William Somerset Maughm (Saki) Books by utilising Roald Dahl Tennessee Willliams To Kill A Mockingbird by utilising Harper Lee
2016-10-01 21:09:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
here are a few ideas:
Jodi Picoults books , discuss: women's lives and relationships
E. L. Doctorow- the March..discuss why the southern soldiers
volunteered and why was the scorched earth policy necessary.
Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
an Ordinary Man by Paul Resesabagina, compare the book to its movie "Hotel Rwanda" for its additional meaning
and for something perhaps a little interesting from the past
i would offer Robert Heinlein's "Starship Trooper" or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. i hope that offers some help.
2007-03-28 10:31:34 · answer #4 · answered by tennis4746 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill A Mockingbird
1984
A Separate Peace
Wuthering Heights
The Great Gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
2007-03-28 10:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by 12Grey14 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Color Purple
Beloved
As I Lay Dying
Madame Bovary
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Song of Solomon
Beautiful Lies
Angels and Demons
Odd Thomas
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Poet (Michael Connelly)
Those should bring a lot of discussion. Pax - C.
2007-03-28 09:56:29 · answer #6 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some good choices:
Lovely Bones
The Road
Five People You Meet in Heaven
Caught Stealing
Path of Fate
2007-03-28 10:09:43 · answer #7 · answered by sparky_buzzsaw 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Memiors of a Geisha;
2007-03-28 09:56:50 · answer #8 · answered by Lala 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recomend Eragon and Carrie (by Stephen King)
2007-04-02 13:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by Creepy Kourtney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋