book club book suggestions

[zarapipe]

I'm starting a book club with some moms I know in an effort to get out more

Any ideas for our first book? ladies are in on the idea so I was going to make a fb group with a poll to choose the first book but need some suggestions.

[jinkies]

First pick is always hard because you don't yet have a good read on the tastes of the group.

The Glass Castle was a great discussion book without being too heavy.

The Secret Life of Violet Grant was also a good read that would appeal to a lot of people.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was also great..

[zarapipe]

jinkies I agree, I feel like this could make or break the group

[darnkatz]

Wild, Still Alice, Inside the O'Briens, and Purple Hibiscus are all books I've read recently and would have enjoyed discussing in a group.

[jinkies]

Still Alice was a good one-- my book club also had a great conversation about that one.

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel was really good and could inspire conversation, I think.

[hermione]

Reconstructing Amelia

[frlcb]

The Nightingale is an awesome book. We just did Hyacinth Girls for ours and it was a good discussion.

Other books we have done:

Still Alice
All The Light We Cannot See
The Light Between Oceans
Maude
Glass Castle
Me Before You
The Girl You Left Behind
The Storyteller
Secret Keeper

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Still Alice
Tell The Wolves I'm Home
Station 11
All the Light We Cannot See
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry

[pinkdutchtulips]

Jun 22, 2015 17:08:24 GMT -5 jinkies said:

First pick is always hard because you don't yet have a good read on the tastes of the group.

The Glass Castle was a great discussion book without being too heavy.

The Secret Life of Violet Grant was also a good read that would appeal to a lot of people.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was also great..

ditto The Glass Castle - excellent read

[hopecounts]

We've done these recently:
Reconstructing Amelia (big hit lots of interesting discussion)
this months is What Alice Forgot which I think will be a great discussion and was a good read
The Girl on the Train (cool read decent discussion)

[darnkatz]

Jun 22, 2015 18:58:39 GMT -5 page said:

Still Alice
Tell The Wolves I'm Home
Station 11
All the Light We Cannot See
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry

I adored this book. So good.