Thursday, January 26, 2012

What is a good book to read for a book club?

Me and my friends are switching schools this year and we are starting book clubs! HELP! I have no good books to read.What is a good book to read for a book club?
List of books for you (a mixture of Y.A. and adult):





--I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith



--The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory



--The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan



--The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling



--A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith



--The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares



--The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot



--Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire



--A Great and Terrible Beauty Trilogy by Libba Bray



--A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks



--Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery



--The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett



--The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky



--The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey



--Old Magic by Marianne Curley



--Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier



--The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini



--Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden



--Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte



--Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell



--Katherine by Anya Seton



--Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George



--The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley







Non-fiction:



--The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank



--Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
well...



1. The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma Mclaughlin



2. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous



3. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks



4. Gossip Girl Boxed Set by Cecily von Ziegesar



5. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson



Catcher and the Rye

To Kill a Mockingbird

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Prayer for Owen MeanyWhat is a good book to read for a book club?
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult or My Sister's Keeper by the same author.
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (set on the Guernsey Islands during WW II)



Body Surfing by Anita Shreve



The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein



Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutWhat is a good book to read for a book club?
Speak

harry potter

The reader

Wicked, Son of a witch, lion among men

inheritance series (eragon and such)

pride and prejudice

the shack

the story of edgar sawtelle

the phantom of the opera

les miserables

to kill a mockingbird

atonement

ethan frome

all quiet on the western front

the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bud, Not Buddy

Crispin

redemption (by Karen Kingsbury)
Try:



Books by Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters and Peeps especially)

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles

If you're with an audience that's more around high school age

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
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