50 Book Club Choices ~ Have You Read Any of These?

I love the fall.  The heat and humidity of summer is a distant memory. Gardens have an abundance of flowers and produce and the Farmer’s Markets are in full swing. While summer is always full of fun activities and family time…it is often not the, “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer” that we imagine, in fact it is often a very busy time of the year.

Another reason why I love the fall is the resumption of our book club.  We always take the summers off and I look forward to September when reading gets back into full swing.  I always plan to read a multitude of books in the summer, but for some reason, it never seems to happen!

When our book club meets in late August or September, we all come armed with a selection of our favourite picks! We draw numbers and pick our book choices and hosting dates in a very orderly fashion! Mind you, we do this at the beginning of the meeting, before we have had too much wine, otherwise, it may be a not so orderly fashion…lol!

Photo attribution: Geralt (CC)

I thought it would be fun to list some of the books we have read over the last few years.  I would also love to find out who else has read them and also, your thoughts on our choices. So, here goes (in no particular order):

50 Book Club Choices

 

1. The Birth House – Ami McKay
2. The Town That Drowned – Reil Nason
3. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed
4. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
5. The 100- Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
6. With Or Without – Dominica Ruta
7. The light Between Oceans – H. L. Steadman
8. Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
9. 11-22-63 – Stephen King
10. One Thousand White Women – Jim Fergus
11. The Big Book of Even More Awesome – Neil Pasricha
12. The Fault in Our Stars – John Greene
13. Cats Table – Michael Ondaatje
14. The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grisson
15. Ten Thousand Truths – Susan White
16. Sarah’s Key – Titiana DeRosnay
17. Room – Emma Donoghue
18. The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
19. When God was a Rabbit – Sarah Winman
20. The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
21. Memoir of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
22. Kit’s Law – Donna Morrissey
23. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
24. Safe Haven – Nicholas Sparks
25. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
26. The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
27. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
28. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
29. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
30. Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
31. Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda
32. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
33. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
34. Persuation – Jane Austin
35. The Weight of Silence – Heather Gudenkauf
36. Still Alice – Lisa Genova
37. Traveling with Pomegranates – Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor
38. Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
39. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
40. A Thousand Splended Suns -Khalid Hussein
41. The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
42. The Shack – Wm. Paul Young
43. Vanishing Act – Jodi Picoult
44. Bloodletting and MIraculous Cures – Vincent Liam
45. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
46. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
47. The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor (The First Woman Settler of the Miramichi) –  Sally Armstrong
48. The Polished Hoe – Austin Clarke
49. The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
50. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

If you are interested, my sister has set up a “What to Read Next” Facebook group where she documents our members overall response to each month’s book.  She also welcomes comments and any book suggestions you may have.

What have you been reading lately?

Any suggestions for a good book?