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

Me and my friends are starting book club. What are some good books you can think of that are not too difficult to read, and easy to discuss in a group? Preferably not cliched teen reads about rich, spoiled, private school girls - ex. Gossip Girl, The Clique, It Girl.What is a good book for a book club to read?
The first book my book club read was "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." We had a really good discussion on it, because we could all talk about the different people we thought would make up our five.



Usually we let each person in the group take turns picking. That way everyone gets to choose an author or genre that they KNOW they like and one and everyone else gets to read something they might not have normally picked for themselves.



Have fun with it. I love it!
Our group liked "Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd...it's a novel set in the south in the 60's. We're doing" Gift of Fear...Survival Skills" and Drowning Ruth (Christina Schwarz's 1st book. It's a mystery with an interesting writing style.)

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What is a good book for a book club to read?
twilight, amazing book but a long book but still easy to read and to talk about because it is sooooo good!!!!!!!!!!! :)
cold mountain

any of mitch albums books

we were the mulvaneys

the heart is the lonely hunter

angry housewines eating bonbons

the lovely bones

mystic river

just to name some i have a huge collection of books if you would like more titles go to oprah book clubWhat is a good book for a book club to read?
Catcher in the Rye
A really good book set in a school is "Prep" by Curtis Sittenfeld (a female writer). Unlike other books set in high schools its really well written and the story really pulls you in. Another recommended read is "I am Charlotte Simmons" by Tom Wolfe but it has a bit of sex in which might not be cool if you guys are young!!
snowflower and the secret fan. GREAT book! one of the best ive ever read, really makes you think about your friends and sisters in a different light. highly recommend it!
Any Nicholas Sparks books or Debbie Macomber books. I could list alot but don't have time. Good Reading to you.
the clique are the best books u can find all over the universe and in heaven and in hell anywhere theclique os the best go massie
Go with mystery books, it will give you more to talk about, like Sherlock Holmes Mysteries or anything by Agatha Christie.
Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Twilgiht- stephanie meyer

Eragon -christopher paolini

SOng of the lioness- tamora pierce

the goose girl- shannon hale
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. it's really good and it's a sort of love story and they go to a public high school.
Depends on what you all like.

A book club at my school a while ago read all of the Redwall books.

My suggestions, some of them lighter reading than others:

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

Anything at all that Hemingway wrote

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Catcher in the Rye

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, maybe

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Any of the classics really are fun when you aren't having to do them for school...
I have a suggestion that is not fiction, but that reads like a novel. The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet is a book about a girl who is 15 at the start of the book. She lives in Bosnia and is falling in love for the first time. A couple years later, as she and her new boyfriend are getting serious, the country of Yugoslavia begins to come apart and the national army turns on some of that country's own people.



The narrator of the story, Jasmina, has been called "the Bosnian Ann Frank." Her story is harrowing, but ultimately it is a very inspiring story, because even though she loses the things most precious to her, she manages not to hate. She's my hero.



The book has been read in classes ranging from high schools to college courses in psychology and history, but about the only place you'll be able to find it is on Amazon since it was published by a very small press. Even though it's an amazing story, I guess the bigger publishers decided that Americans weren't interested in reading about people's struggles in another country.



The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet by Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic.
Outsiders, Lord of the Flies, Old Man and the Sea
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