What are some good reads for a Book Club?

My friends and I are forming a book club and we're all new at this. We're students in our 20s and so we'd like to be thrifty (aka paperbacks only). If anybody out there has any book suggestions to begin with, that would lovely :) Thanks!What are some good reads for a Book Club?
The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield This is a great book to start with as a new Book Club. The book certain editions I think has Reader's Club Guide in the back. It has questions and discussion points and thing's you can discuss in a Book Club.

Book Details: Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Her letter to biographer Margaret Lea - a woman with secrets of her own - is a summons. Vida's tale is one of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family: the beautiful and wilful Isabelle and the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling, but as a biographer she deals in fact not fiction and she doesn't trust Vida's account. As she begins her researches, two parallel stories unfold. Join Margaret as she begins her journey to the truth - hers, as well as Vida's.



The Last Promise- Richard Paul Evans

Book Details: They meet by chance in Tuscany. Eliana is an American painter trapped in a loveless marriage. Ross is a man seeking renewal after a terrible tragedy. Their hearts bring them together. Will their lives keep them apart.



The Spice Box- Lou Jane Temple

Book Details: A delicious new mystery series that takes readers on a cook's tour of kitchens through history.



A fresh new series begins-- one which will follow a spice box--and the cooks who use it--through different historical periods, each with a mystery to solve and a handful of precious recipes.



Bridget Heaney escaped from Ireland's Great Famine to New York City, where she spent her childhood as a pickpocket, supporting herself and her younger sister. But ever since she made her first pot of soup at the orphanage, she knew she wanted to be a cook. Now, in the home of wealthy and powerful department store owner Isaac Gold, her dream is about to come true.



But on Bridget's first day of work, amidst gleaming copper pots and mighty woodstoves, she finds a body hidden inside the dough box. It is Gold's youngest son, whose whereabouts have been a mystery for several days. Bridget's courage and street sense take her from cook to crime-solver as she helps the heartbroken Gold family unravel the story of their son's fate. Justice will be served-along with a home-cooked meal.



Cry, The Beloved Country- Alan Paton

Book Details: Cry, the Beloved Country stands as a singularly important novel in twentieth-century South African literature. A work of searing beauty, Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of South Africa and a people driven by racial injustice. Unforgettable for character and incident, it is a novel of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.



Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte

Frankenstein-Mary Shelley

Snow White and Rose Red- Patricia C. Wrede

The Prisoners of September- Leon Garfield

Death Du Jour-Lou Jane Temple

The wedding Dress-Virginia Ellis

A Time for Silence-Philippa Carr Book Details: When Lucinda Greenham and her impetuous friend Annabelinda Denver leave London for finishing school in Europe, neither imagines the trouble to come. It takes many forms: Anabelinda's secret affair; the child born out of wedlock; and the German invasion of Belgium.

With the Germans one step behind, the girls flee across a stunned Europe on the brink of World War I, to arrive safely in England at last. Picking up the pieces of their lives, they consign Annabelinda's damaging past to secrecy, only to be faced with blackmail so severe it leads to murder. As the girls will learn too late, there is a time for truth and a time for silence



Hope these help. I really don't know what you and your friends reading prefrences are but here are a few books from different genres I thought might work for your Book Club. Happy Reading! - Cass
I am part of 2 book clubs: A formal one at my library and an informal one amongst girlfriends. At the top of my head, here are some books I remember reading for our book club(s):



Pride and Prejudice

Love in the Time of Cholera

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Book Thief

Book of Negroes

Audience of Chairs

The In Between World of Vikram Lall

Late Nights on Air



I know we've read lots of more, these are the only ones I remember though.



Generally, book club meetings take place once a month. Discuss with your friends to find out what day of the month is best for everyone to meet up (For example, my library book club meets the second Tuesday of every month at 2 pm to 3 pm, my friend book club meets the last Monday of every month from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.) If you are having your meetings at home, consider switching from one member's home to the next, and the host doesn't need to serve dinner, but have light drinks and refreshments. Keep in mind, if you are students and everyone cannot afford to buy a book for every meeting, you can always borrow them from the library.



Have fun and happy reading.



=)What are some good reads for a Book Club?
It really depends on what you and your friends are interested in reading about. You could read Victorian lit and focus on Dickens or Austen. Or, read dystopian lit and read books like Anthem and Brave New World.



Hope this helps.
Here are some of my favorite recommendations:

The Book Thief

The Mists of Avalon

Great Expectations

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Spindle's End

A Northern Light

The Golden CompassWhat are some good reads for a Book Club?
ur book club should read a classic or a romance book
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

An old man tells of his life with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined when he was a young man during the Great Depression.



The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows

A post WW II London author enters into a correspondence with readers from an unusual book discussion group on Guernsey that was founded during the war. We become familiar with the highs and lows of the Islanders聮 lives as lasting friendships are formed. Readers who enjoyed 84 Charing Cross Road will love this book.



See, Lisa. SHANGHAI GIRLS. In 1937 Shanghai聴the Paris of Asia聴twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree聴until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides.



McLaughlin, Emma %26amp; Nicola Kraus. THE NANNY DIARIES: A NOVEL. A sarcastic, witty and sad story of how the over-privileged raise their children. As a New York City college student looking for a job, Nanny takes a 9-month job with an upper crust New York Society family. The story centers on a typical hardworking father, snobby socialite mother, and a single, lonely child



Non-fiction

Gilbert, Elizabeth. EAT, PRAY, LOVE. At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for "balancing."





Leonard, Mike. THE RIDE OF OUR LIVES. "Today" correspondent Mike Leonard decided to take a month off to accompany his aging parents on a journey to the places of their youth, along with a number of American landmarks. He tells the story of their RV trek with good humor, recalling their fascination with the roadside landscape, as he reveals how his parents, always blunt and unique, deal with the indignities of age and memories of the past