If you belong to a book club, what books would you recommend to generate discussion?

Our library just got a $500 grant to purchase 10 titles for book clubs. We'll get 8 copies of each book. The committee meets next week to select titles. Just to give you some idea, here's what we've read (so we won't be purchasing) and very much enjoyed.

My Antonia;

East of Eden;

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time;

Pope Joan;

Kite Runner;

Memiors of a Geisha;

Cain River;

The Poisonwood Bible;

The Return of the Native;

A Prayer for Owen Meany;

The Bonesetter's Daughter;

Alias Grace;

The Red TentIf you belong to a book club, what books would you recommend to generate discussion?
1. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (nonfiction)

2. The Glass Castle: A Memoir

3. The Lady and the Panda: THe True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal

4. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (it's hilarious)

5. Arthur and George (historical fiction)



These have all been published in 2006, so hopefully they wouldn't have been read by groups yet. Plus, the nonfiction draws in the male readers. Sounds like fun!!!
The Color Purple

Beloved

As I Lay Dying

Madame Bovary

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Song of Solomon

Beautiful Lies

Angels and Demons

Odd Thomas

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Poet (Michael Connelly)



Those should bring a lot of discussion. Pax - C.If you belong to a book club, what books would you recommend to generate discussion?
Memiors of a Geisha;
Here are some good choices:



Lovely Bones

The Road

Five People You Meet in Heaven

Caught Stealing

Path of FateIf you belong to a book club, what books would you recommend to generate discussion?
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss

Extremely Loud %26amp; Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Foer

The Fixer: A Novel by Bernard Malamud

Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
To Kill A Mockingbird

1984

A Separate Peace

Wuthering Heights

The Great Gatsby

Fahrenheit 451
here are a few ideas:

Jodi Picoults books , discuss: women's lives and relationships



E. L. Doctorow- the March..discuss why the southern soldiers

volunteered and why was the scorched earth policy necessary.

Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

an Ordinary Man by Paul Resesabagina, compare the book to its movie "Hotel Rwanda" for its additional meaning



and for something perhaps a little interesting from the past

i would offer Robert Heinlein's "Starship Trooper" or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. i hope that offers some help.
I would recomend Eragon and Carrie (by Stephen King)

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