An American Marriage by Tayari Jones ("a moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple") Selected by Oprah's book club.“The greatest of our Civil War novels” (New York Times) Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The, by Michael Chabon.All Over But the Shouting and Ava's Man, southern memoirs by Rick Bragg.All Passion Spent, by Vita Sackville-West.All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren.On July 3rd, the Disney channel begins offering a filmed version of the musical. In July 2020 Penguin Books kicks off #HamiltonTogether, a two-month read-along of Chernow’s biography on Twitter. Ahab’s Wife, Or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund.
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How to get books free or deeply discounted: In fact, we live in a text-gorged society in which the most fleeting thought is a thumb-dash away from posterity.Spend your life flashing between points of transitory data and a dog-eared novel begins to feel interminable." This might also come in handy for your book club: This doesn't mean we're reading less – not at all. We stop reading with a sense of faith that some larger purpose may be served. This helps cover fees for site hosting and link-checking.īook clubs are an antidote to this problem: I have forgotten how to read (Michael Harris, Globe and Mail, 2-9-18) "When we become cynical readers – when we read in the disjointed, goal-oriented way that online life encourages – we stop exercising our attention. Buy a book from Amazon after first clicking on a link here to get to Amazon and we get an 2% to 6% referral fee. Clicking on the title will take you to comments on a book. Save the American library system!Īsterisks indicate books that have been particular favorites for discussion. Many libraries also provide excellent general and specialized recommended reading lists and invite authors to speak.
Here is also as good a place as any to thank the American library system, which allows us all to read more books than we can afford to buy. But do frequent your local booksellers, so we can keep bookstores alive. Links below take you to the database, which is very helpful for telling you what the book is about and how some readers have reacted to it (and if you purchase something, this website gets a small commission). Let me know if I've left out any favorites of your book group.
Sometimes the "bad" or not-universally-favorite books provide the liveliest discussions, but I've tried to list books here that book clubs enjoyed reading and discussing. (At a "summit" of book groups at Politics & Prose, we noticed that men's groups tended to read more nonfiction than women's groups do one men's group alternated nonfiction books one month with sports events the next.) Your group might decide on a specialty-for example, science fiction, spiritual titles, history or current events and issues, classics, mostly fiction, maybe books you might tend not to read on your own but would read if you have a deadline and a group to discuss the book with). There's a particular emphasis in this list on fiction, although some nonfiction is included. I've provided links below to other good lists from which to find book club selections. The titles are alphabetized by the first letter of the MAIN first word of the title, so you will find “A Fine Balance” in the F section, for example. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith, for example, but it doesn't make for a great discussion. I assembled this list for book groups or book lovers looking for something new to read and discuss - with an emphasis on the books being both well-written and discussable. "Reading won't solve your problems but again, neither will housework." I agree with what one of our book club members said, too: Laura Hillenbrand is as much the hero of this book as Zamperini: to be able to write such a thorougly researched book with the health problems she has is amazing. In some ways his life after he got back to the States was as interesting as trying to survive on a raft and in a Japanese POW camp. That I grew up in Torrance made the book even more interesting, but what I admired was how the author kept the focus on one character. and I suppose of all those I was least interested in airplanes, but because knowledge of those airplanes played a role in Louis Zamperini's story I was more interested than I usually would be, and learned a lot, and now wish I had been more curious about my Uncle Vern's role in the war, when he was alive. We just read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand in my local book club and a few members thought there were too many details whether there were too many depended on how interested you were in airplanes, survival at sea, the war in the Pacific, etc.