My favorite is The Grand Sophy but I own them all! Perhaps it might be fun for everyone to pick whichever they like and we can discuss the overall genre and similarities and differences.
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Lol, oops! I have lots of titles in my brain all right ā theyāre just wrong!
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Soā¦I was writing to veto Outlander, because although I really liked the TV series, I recall not liking the book too much. Then I thought ā itās been years since Iāve read it and maybe I mostly didnāt like all the sequels, so I borrowed it from Libbyā¦and spent the afternoon reading and enjoying it!
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I just put a hold on Wellness through Libby ā my lucky day! Canāt wait to read that; I was a big fan of The Nix.
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Iām not an active member of this group but Iāll re-read Persuasion anytime! Itās by far my favorite Austen novel. I also like Sense and Sensibility and lots to discuss there.
Anna Karenina is an amazing book for those who havenāt read it - though too long for this purpose probably it has a lot to discuss. Itās one of those books that really needs to be re-read d every 10-20 years - it read really differently to me at 20-something than it did in my late 30s or early 50s.
Middlemarch is my all time favorite and has plenty of romance but again probably too long for this purpose.
If I never read Wuthering Heights again it will be too soon.
We did Middlemarch in early 2020 if youāre interested in the discussion.
Hi @Juno16 ā welcome and thanks for your comments! I completely agree re Anna Karenina. Itās a wonderful novel.
As @Marilyn said, we read Middlemarch in 2020. Youāre right ā it was quite long, so we took the unusual step of choosing it earlier than usual to give people a head start. Great discussion: Middlemarch - April CC Book Club Selection
As for Wuthering Heights, I love it, so we differ there! So many reasons why, but Iāll save them for the future because I do hope the group reads it some day. Maybe weāll make a believer out of you. 
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It was a bloodbath. Iāve never seen anything like it. 
We started out with 16 titles. If youāre playing along at home, youāll note that nearly all of them were vetoed. Only two remain from the original list, plus @Marilynās late addition of a Georgette Heyer:
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Grand Sophy (or another selection) by Georgette Heyer
With a list that short, we can forgo the ranked choice voting. Iām going to pull rank (I swear I have rank; see by-laws). Iām calling it for A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute.
My reasoning is pretty simple: 1) Weāve read something by Jane Austen, but nothing by Nevil Shute. 2) A Town Like Alice will take us into new territory that might provide more fodder for discussion than Georgette Heyer (though sheās delightful); and 3) The last eight books weāve read have been by women authors, so time for a token male. 
That was quite an entertaining selection process! Thanks for the input and I hope youāre all on board for A Town Like Alice. Iāll start a new thread.
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Sounds good, @Mary13 . Thanks for being decisive!
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So what is everybody reading?
I just finished My Name Is Barbra by Streisand. Itās 968 pages 
but I enjoyed it, for the most part. It has also spurred me to watch several of her old movies and listen to many of her songs. She is absolutely amazing.
I also just started The Bean Trees, by Kingsolver, for another book club, and will also soon read All You Can Ever Know by Chung for my third book club. Iām finding three book clubs is a lot but I enjoy all of them for different reasons. It just doesnāt give me a lot of time to read books that I want to read.
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Iām reading Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and have Tom Lake and Hello Beautiful about to come off hold.
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The Bean Trees ā thatās an oldie!
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@VeryHappy: I loved Kingsolverās The Bean Trees - its sequel Pigs in Heaven, not so much. I was in four book clubs, now three and am considering paring even more. Like you, I have too many non-book-club books that I want to read. However, the CC Book Club is the ābestestā so it avoids my paring knife.
I am currently reading two books:
Hellspark - Janet Kagan. Science fiction
Vampires of el Norte - Isabel CaƱas. Horror. It seems a tad odd to be reading a horror novel around Christmas but Iāve been on a waitlist for it since September. I had planned to read it in October but that didnāt work out. I loved CaƱasā first novel The Hacienda (also horror) and hope this is equally as good.
I have four books working their way to me at the moment, all next-in-a-series and all easy reading.
Dirty Thirty - Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum, #30
The Gentlemanās Gambit - Evie Dunmore. A League of Extraordinary Women, #4 (and last in the series, I believe). Romance
The Mystery Guest - Nita Prose. Molly the Maid, #2
Payback in Death - J. D. Robb. In Death, #57
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Ahhhhhhh, thr Bean Trees an old time fav Iāve mineā¦ā¦
that book been a long time since Iāve reread it, but did read twice,
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Save-Yourself-From-A-Spoiler-Alert: If you havenāt read A Town Like Alice, do NOT read the Amazon summary. In fact, probably best not to read any synopsis. But the Amazon summary is particularly egregious, as it gives away a key plot point that happens well into the novel.
Iām going to put this warning in the thread as well.
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My favorite is Venetia, but The Grand Sophy is nice. I recently reread Cotillion because it was the one Lois McMasters Bujold through out as one of her favorites. It was much better than I remembered, but the protagonists are so ungrownup!
We could pair Breakfast with Tiffanyās with something else short (maybe Gentlemen prefer Blonds?) And we could watch the movies too!
Agree Shogun is too long.
I have most of the books too. Iām always on the lookout for Heyer at my favorite book store. Arabella, The Grand Sophy, and The Quiet Gentleman are my favorites. Venetia and Frederica are close runners. Would love to have to have a Heyer book discussion sometime.
I also love Venetia - I see that and Sophy are the top two on that best ten list I linked.