Recommendations for Book Group Reading!

Whether you are currently in a book group, starting a new one or just looking for a good read, here’s a great list of recommended books!

Historical Fiction

My book group has ALWAYS enjoyed this genre – a great story and the sense that you have learned something about another era or another culture.

  • Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
  • Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
  • The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
  • The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Other Boleyn Girl – Phillipa Gregory

All Around Great Reads

  • Empire Falls - Richard Russo
  • Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
  • My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Piccoult
  • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • Gilead – Marilynne Robinson

On the Edgier Side

  • The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
  • Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Until I Find You – John Irving
  • The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell (if this novel intrigues you as it did me, there is a sequel – Children of God)


Modern Fiction - closer to “chic lit” but not quite

  • Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons – Lorna Landvik
  • I Don’t Know How She Does It – Allison Pearson
  • Getting a Life – Helen Simpson
  • The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
  • Shopgirl – Steve Martin

Non Fiction

  • Seabiscuit – Lauran Hillenbrand
  • Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
  • Expecting Adam – Martha Beck
  • The Devil in the White City – Erik Larsen

Great for Men and Women

  • Waiting – Ha Jin
  • March – Geraldine Brooks
  • Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky

Suspense

  • The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
  • The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
  • Mrs. Kimble – Jennifer Haig
  • Labyrinth – Kate Mosse
  • The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Hit the book store right away! And enjoy!

Have you read a great book lately?  I’d love to know!

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