Saturday, March 7, 2015

Potential Books for Book Club 2015



Every year I like to share with you the books we are voting on for the next year's book club schedule. It's fun to see what you all have to say about them!

Here are the possibles for this next year, listed in their respective categories.


October Book

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Classics

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

YA/MG

Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

Utah Author

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Elevated by Elana Johnson
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Literary Fiction

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Non Fiction

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Graphic/Play

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Smile by  Raina Telgemeier

Are there some on this list that you think we simply can't pass up? If so, here's hoping it gets voted in! We are trying to narrow this down to about 12, so only a few will get eliminated. It's always fun to see what pulls out ahead!

9 comments:

  1. We have a great list to choose from don't we? I was having a hard time voting!

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  2. I highly recommend Wonder and Memoirs of a Geisha. Both will move you. Everyone I know who's read Wonder says it's the best book they've ever read and I agree.

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    1. Page: We've actually bagged our current month's book and have decided to read Wonder NOW instead! :)

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  3. Lots of goodies on there. I look forward to seeing what you end up with!

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  4. This is a great list, Suey! I've always wanted to read The Year of Magical Thinking. And Wonder, too. It will be interesting to see what the final list looks like!

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  5. We read WONDER in my club and had a WONDERful discussion. It is a very touching book.

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  6. looks like a great list to make your picks from. I just finished "All the Light We Cannot See". I liked it a lot.

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