What is a good book for a book club to read?

Question

Me and my friends are starting book club. What are some good books you can think of that are not too difficult to read, and easy to discuss in a group? Preferably not cliched teen reads about rich, spoiled, private school girls - ex. Gossip Girl, The Clique, It Girl.

Answer 1

The first book my book club read was "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." We had a really good discussion on it, because we could all talk about the different people we thought would make up our five.

Usually we let each person in the group take turns picking. That way everyone gets to choose an author or genre that they KNOW they like and one and everyone else gets to read something they might not have normally picked for themselves.

Have fun with it. I love it!

Answer 2

I have a suggestion that is not fiction, but that reads like a novel. The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet is a book about a girl who is 15 at the start of the book. She lives in Bosnia and is falling in love for the first time. A couple years later, as she and her new boyfriend are getting serious, the country of Yugoslavia begins to come apart and the national army turns on some of that country's own people.

The narrator of the story, Jasmina, has been called "the Bosnian Ann Frank." Her story is harrowing, but ultimately it is a very inspiring story, because even though she loses the things most precious to her, she manages not to hate. She's my hero.

The book has been read in classes ranging from high schools to college courses in psychology and history, but about the only place you'll be able to find it is on Amazon since it was published by a very small press. Even though it's an amazing story, I guess the bigger publishers decided that Americans weren't interested in reading about people's struggles in another country.

The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet by Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic.

Answer 3

Depends on what you all like.
A book club at my school a while ago read all of the Redwall books.
My suggestions, some of them lighter reading than others:
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Anything at all that Hemingway wrote
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Catcher in the Rye
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, maybe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Any of the classics really are fun when you aren't having to do them for school...

Answer 4

Weetzie Bat via Francesca Lia Block What My mom would not comprehend via Sonya Sones a variety of Hideous Books the place the mummy Dies via Sonya Sones the vast Over undemanding via Jasper Fforde A Mid summer season nighttime's Dream via William Shakespeare Blood and Chocolate via Anette Curtis Clause The Host via Stephenie Meyer

Answer 5

A really good book set in a school is "Prep" by Curtis Sittenfeld (a female writer). Unlike other books set in high schools its really well written and the story really pulls you in. Another recommended read is "I am Charlotte Simmons" by Tom Wolfe but it has a bit of sex in which might not be cool if you guys are young!!

Answer 6

Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, A Pair of Blue Eyes.

Answer 7

I can't suggest any, however, I can give you the links for these:

Free e-Books

As far as I'm aware, all these links are free, if you discover any that are not, then please let me know and I will remove them from the list.

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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

http://www.free-ebooks.net/

http://manybooks.net/

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

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http://www.ebooks3.com/

http://www.bookyards.com/

http://www.free-online-novels.com/

http://www.starry.com/novel/authors.htm

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http://www.bookspot.com/ask/

http://www.online-literature.com/

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

http://www.literature.org/

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Answer 8

cold mountain
any of mitch albums books
we were the mulvaneys
the heart is the lonely hunter
angry housewines eating bonbons
the lovely bones
mystic river
just to name some i have a huge collection of books if you would like more titles go to oprah book club

Answer 9

Outsiders, Lord of the Flies, Old Man and the Sea

Answer 10

Any Nicholas Sparks books or Debbie Macomber books. I could list alot but don't have time. Good Reading to you.