Book Suggestions

 

 

Here are books that have been suggested and/or mentioned at previous gatherings.  Feel free to add other suggestions in the Comments section below.

 

Books mentioned at 10/9/12 gathering:

• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
• O Pioneers by Willa Cather

 

... related (very loosely!) to our discussion of Out Stealing Horses (which is set in Norway ... which is next to Sweden ... which got us onto Bergman films):

• Lutheran Air Lines (youtube.com - although it's really just an audio track)
• The Seventh Seal (movie by Ingmar Bergman)
• The Dove (Bergman spoof)

 

... and, of course, a video about Joyce's tub that she got from build.com. 

 

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Books mentioned at 8/29/12 gathering:

 

• The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
• Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julia Otsuka
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh ... Note: There were several books with this title so I hope I got the right one
• A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
• The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng  ... Note: This book is about Malaysia during WWI, but in the discussion last night when the title came up people mentioned it being about Vietnam after the war there.  So there must be another book with a similar title to this one.  

 

And here are some of the topics that came up related to our guest last night, Pam Shelton:

• Botswana Book Project - founded by Pam
• Botswana Adventure - Pam's blog about her time in Botswana
• Books for Africa
• Books by Alexander McCall Smith
• Better World Books

 

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Books mentioned at 7/19/12 gathering:

 

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Books by Erik Larson:  The Devil in the White City, In The Garden of Beasts
• In Defense of Women by Nancy Gertner
• Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church by Jason Berry
• Disquiet by Julia Leigh
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
• The Land Girls by Angela Huth
• Game of Thrones (series) by George R.R. Martin
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
• American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North American by Colin Woodard
• In response to Kim's question about non-fiction adventure books: 
• Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
• The Lost City of Z: A Deadly Tale of Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read 

 

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Books mentioned at 6/5/12 gathering:

 

• Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
• A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Frisson
• This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life by Kate Braestrup
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• O Pioneers by Willa Cather
• My Antonia by Willa Cather (also check out George Guidall's audiobook version)
• American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard (out in paperback Sep 2012)
• National Park mystery series by Nevada Barr (1st book = Track of the Cat)

 

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Books mentioned at 4/25/12 gathering:

 

• The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• The Evil & The Innocent by Bill Diamond (local author)
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
• Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
• Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
• When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
• Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

 

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Books mentioned at 3/14/12 gathering:

 

• The Hunger Games trilogy (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins
• Three Junes by Julia Glass
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

 

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Books mentioned at 12/5/11 gathering:

 

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Hunger Games trilogy (Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins
• The Dragon's Tooth by N. D. Wilson

 

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Books mentioned at 10/13/11 gathering:

 

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• something by or about Ted Hughes

 

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Books mentioned at 8/30/11 gathering:

 

• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• plus a general suggestion of something political

 

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Books mentioned at 7/19/11 gathering:

 

• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Room by Emma Donoghue

 

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Books mentioned at 6/28/11 gathering:

 

• Room by Emma Donoghue
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman
• War by Sebastian Junger