Sunday, February 12, 2012

Anyone have any good books for a book club?

Some girls I went to high school with and I are going to start a book club and can't decide on books can anyone name a few?

We dont mind what type of books just any books will do we just need some suggestions.Anyone have any good books for a book club?
Some books I loved:



*Coffeehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfors

*Leslie's Journal by Allan Stratton

*Exposed by Susan Vaught

*Katie.com: My Story by Katherine Tarbox

*Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

*Such A Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess

*Leftovers by Laura Wiess

*Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

*The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

*Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann

*The Love of My Life by Louise Douglas

*PS I Love you by Cecelia Ahern

*The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

*The Linnet Bird by Linda Holeman

*A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle

*Willow by Julia Hoban

*Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Geez where to start!



One of the best suggestions I can give would have to be Australian writer Louise Limerick's 1st novel Dying for Cake. This is due to a little note oh her website stating that she will do a phone interview with you at your bookclub meetup when discussing the book! Pretty good hey!?

Here is the link:

http://www.louiselimerick.com/1.html



I also recently stubled accross a website that gives you discussion points for individual books. You need to choose a book and click on it, then at the bottom there is a PDF file you need to open for the discussion points.

http://us.macmillan.com/MacmillanSite/ca鈥?/a>



You may also want to have a look at this site:

http://www.readerscircle.org/



Its always hard to get a book that everyone will enjoy. The trick is to pick something that will spark a good discussion, so something that may be hard hitting, or a good mystery (ome will guess it before the end - others won't).



Some good books I have read myself that I think would be good for a group are:

Lullabies for Little Criminals - Heather O'Neill

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/97800鈥?/a>



Anatomy of Wings - Karen Foxlee

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides鈥?/a>



The Household Guide to Dying - Debra Adelaide

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides鈥?/a>



The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides鈥?/a>





Also have a good look into this site:

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/roundt鈥?/a>



Good luck, and happy reading :)Anyone have any good books for a book club?
Expect: Romance, Drama, Fashion, History, Fantasy, Classics, Non-Fiction, Fiction, Suspense



Reads



1.Thanks For the Memories 鈥?Cecelia Ahern

2.Love is Hell 鈥?Melissa Marr, Scott Westerfeld ,Justine Larbalestier鈥?br>
3.Undead Series 鈥?MaryJanice Davidson

4.The Land of Elyon Series 鈥?Patrick Carman

5.Poseur: a novel 鈥?Rachel Maude

6.The Nanny Diaries: a novel 鈥?Emma McLaughlin

7.Private Series 鈥?Kate Brian

8.The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette 鈥?Carolly Erickson

9.Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire 鈥?Amanda Foreman

10.The Spiderwick Chronicles 鈥?Tony DiTerlizzi

11.The Clique Series 鈥?Lisi Harrison

12.Aquamarine 鈥揂lice Hoffman

13.Animal Farm - George Orwell

14.The Midnight Twins Series 鈥?Jacquelyn Mitchard

15.The Alchemyst Series - Michael Scott

16.Fallout 鈥?Ellen Hopkins

17.A Tale of Two Cities 鈥?Charles Dickens

18.A.B.C. Murders 鈥?Agatha Christie

19.Towards Zero 鈥?Agatha Christie

20.The Host 鈥?Stephenie Meyer

21.The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

22.Paisley Hanover Acts Out - Cameron Tuttle

23.Mediator Series 鈥?Meg Cabot

24.What I saw and How I lied 鈥?Judy Blundell

25.Stealing Heaven 鈥?Elizabeth Scott

26. Picture Perfect by Catherine Clark

27.Wings 鈥?Aprilynne Pike

28.L.A. Candy 鈥?Lauren Conrad

29. The Market 鈥?J.M. Steele

30.The Faerie Path- Frewin Jones

31.Boys Series 鈥?Meg Cabot

32.Gone With The Wind 鈥?Margaret Mitchell

33.Splendor 鈥?Anna Godbersen

34.The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

35.Sleeping With The Fishes 鈥?MaryJanice Davidson

36.Dead until Dark - Charlaine Harris

37.The Mortal Instruments Series- Cassandra Clare

38.The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

39.A Great and Terrible Beauty Series 鈥?Libba Bray

40.Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld

41.Vegan Virgin Valentine - Carolyn Mackler

42.The Tea Rose series - Jennifer Donnelly

43.Madapple 鈥?Christina Meldrum

44.A Countess Below Stairs 鈥?Eva Ibottson

45.The Devil Wears Prada 鈥?Lauren Weisengberger

46.Tiger Rising 鈥?Kate DiCamillo

47.Educating Carolina 鈥?Patricia Cabot

48.The Fetch鈥?Laura Whitcomb

49.Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler

50.Bride Quartet Series 鈥?Nora Roberts

51.Ivy 鈥?Julie Hearn

52.Secrets of the Tudor court : pleasure palace - Kate Emerson

53.King's Rose - Alisa M Libby

54.Just Ella - Margaret Peterson Haddix

55.Virgin's secret - Victoria Alexander

56.This is Chick-Lit 鈥?Lots of people

57.Bras %26amp; Broomsticks 鈥?Sarah Mlnowski

58.Stray 鈥?Stacy Goldblatt

59.Summer After 鈥?Carrie Karasyou

60. A reliable wife : a novel - Robert Goolrick

61.The Alphas 鈥?Lisi Harrison

62.Secrets of my Hollywood Life 鈥?Jen Calonita

63.Crash Into Me - Albert Borris

64.Coffeehouse Angel - Suzanne Selfors

65.Perfumes 鈥?Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez

66.Elements of Writing Fiction-Beginnings, Middles, %26amp; Ends 鈥?Nancy Kress %26lt;series%26gt;

67.Healthy eating for preteens and teens : the ultimate guide to diet, nutrition and food - Leslie Beck

68.How to Be Good - Nick Hornby

69.Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin

70.Princess Diaries 鈥?Meg Cabot

71.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 鈥?Mary Ann Shaffer

72.Organize Yourself! 鈥?Kate Kelly, Ronni Eisenberg

73.Organize Your Life: free yourself from clutter %26amp; find more personal time 鈥?Kate Kelly, Ronni Eisenberg

74.Graceling 鈥?Kristen Cashore

75.Jane Eyre 鈥?Charlotte Bronte

76.Peony In Love 鈥?Lisa See

77.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 鈥?Lisa See

78.Woman In The Wall 鈥?Patrice Kindl

79.TTYL Series 鈥?Lauren Myracie

80.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Jeff Kinney

81.The Debutante - Kathryn Williams

82.The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

83.Daughters of the sea : Hannah - Kathryn Lasky

84.Ransome My Heard 鈥?Meg Cabot

85.Julie %26amp; Julia [My Year of Cooking Dangerously] 鈥?Julie Powell

86.Snowed In 鈥?Rachel Hawthorne

87.Once A Witch 鈥?Carolyn MacCullough

88.Sussanah Morrow 鈥?Megan Chance

89.How Not To Be Popular 鈥?Jennifer Ziegler

90.The Red Necklace 鈥?Sally Gardner

91.Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials 鈥?Marc Aronson

92.The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History 鈥?Peter Charles Hoffer

93.Vanishing Acts: A Novel 鈥?Jodi Picoult

94.Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World 鈥?Vicki Myron



OK, like I said this is MY reading list so that will explain all of the self-help, dieting and perfume books =)



Items (Books) to buy:



Where roses Grow by Patricia Cabot The Wish -Marianne Willman Touch - Francine Prose A Sweet Disorder - Jacqueline Kolosov The Grand Summer of Spells %26amp; Other Tales 鈥?Barbara E. Hill The Mermaid Song 鈥?Marianne Willman The Secret of Mermaid Island 鈥?Judith Wade The Last Mermaid 鈥?Shana Abe The Scandals of an Innocent - Nicola Cornick A Novel Idea 鈥?Aimee Friedman Perfect Chemistry 鈥?Simone Elkeles
Some of my favorite Paranormal Romance series (That are all WAY better than Twilight):

Rachel Morgan by Kim Harrison

Sookie Stackhouse by Charline Harris

Anita Blake by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Kitty Norville by Carrie Vaughn



Random Vampire books that I love:

13 Bullets by David Wellington

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Bottomfeeder - Bob Fingerman

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson



Zombie Books:

Generation Dead by Daniel Walters

Breathers by S.G. Browne (This one's AWESOME)

Cell by Stephen King

World War Z by Max Brooks



Random Stuff I recommended:

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brokmeier

Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul NeilianAnyone have any good books for a book club?
Dan Brown has a new one out, he always a good author to discuss and debate over. His new one is kinda boring, though, compared to his others I mean.

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