<p>I know we have the “best book I have read” thread but I am looking for some new (not necessarily newly released) ideas for book club. My book club enjoys titles that aren’t overly serious or overly long. Historical fiction is okay as long as it has a good story to go along with it. We spend more time drinking wine and eating then actually discussing the book. 
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<p>Why not check out the CC bookclub books? You can skim through the threads to see which books generated the kind of discussion you’d enjoy. Here’s a post with links to everything we’ve read in the last five years: <a href=“The Hound of the Baskervilles and The House of Silk – December CC Book Club Selection - #134 by Mary13 - Parent Cafe - College Confidential Forums”>The Hound of the Baskervilles and The House of Silk – December CC Book Club Selection - #134 by Mary13 - Parent Cafe - College Confidential Forums;
<p>Americanah Great book and lots to discuss.</p>
<p>Day After Night by Diamant
March by Geraldine Brooks
The One Hundred Foot Journey (the movie is better than the book)
The Glass Castle</p>
<p>All the Light We Cannot See by Doer
The Boys in the Boat by Brown
One Summer by Bryson
Me Before You by Moyes
The Shadow of the Wind- by Zafon</p>
<p>The Rosie project; funny and light yet interesting.</p>
<p>I asked the same question to a retired English teacher who told me about a long standing couples book club she and her husband have been part of for years,
She recommended this book- " Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight"
<a href=“BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Growing Up in Rhodesia's Terror, Turmoil and Beauty - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/books/books-of-the-times-growing-up-in-rhodesia-s-terror-turmoil-and-beauty.html</a></p>
<p>I second All the Light We Cannot See and would add Orphan Train. </p>
<p>Someone recommended this site to the CC Book Club long ago: <a href=“http://www.bookmovement.com/”>http://www.bookmovement.com/</a></p>
<p>Ditto All the Light We Cannot See.</p>
<p>As well as The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd.</p>
<p>From the link Ignatius provided - book movement
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The Rosie Project: A Novel
by Graeme Simsion
Published: 2014-06-03
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Now in paperback, the international bestselling romantic comedy “bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and…humor,” (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love.The art of love is never a science: Meet
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Published: 2014-07-29
Hardcover: 480 pages
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Check out the #1 New York Times bestseller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, called ?a surefire hit” by Entertainment Weekly. "The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town…are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee…[Moriarty] is a fantastically…
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The Invention of Wings: A Novel
by Sue Monk Kidd
Published: 2014-01-07
Hardcover: 384 pages
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From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice …
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<p>All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
by Anthony Doerr
Published: 2014-05-06
Hardcover: 544 pages
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of Wor…</p>
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by Christina Baker Kline
Published: 2013-04-02
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Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be.Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman cl
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They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the…
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown
Published: 2014-05-27
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The #1 New York Times?bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times?the improbable, intimate account of h…
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<p>Our bookgroup gets books predominately from the public library bookgroup holdings,
We tend to read books from a different perspective culturally, we just finished, The Sisters, about theMitford family.
It was huge.
We are now reading The Last Brother, which is much quicker.
<a href=“Nathacha Appanah's "The Last Brother" - Words Without Borders”>http://wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/nathacha-appanahs-the-last-brother</a></p>
<p>Do you buy the books or get them from the library?
I prefer ebooks, although I am going to try audio so I can do other things at the same time.
Ołder books are more likely to be available on electronics or audio, but not always.
We also have met in others homes, and when available watch the movie or mini series from the book, like Jane Eyre. & The Go Between.( with Julie Christie & Alan Bates, when they were at their most gorgeous- which was pretty gorgeous!)
We’ve read several on this list.
<a href=“Book Group Books”>Book Group Lt A Gt Books;
Potato Peel Pie Society is lighthearted, the Glass Castle, less so.
A book that is fairly new but I think would be good for discussion is Driving the Saudis, by Jayne Amelia Larson, who drove members of a Saudi royal family in LA.
We have also read Princess by Jean Sasson, which depicts life for women in Saudi Arabia. Quite different than in LA.
<a href=“http://www.jeansasson.com/books/princess-trilogy.html”>http://www.jeansasson.com/books/princess-trilogy.html</a></p>