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Book Suggestions

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on June 5, 2012 at 10:19:55 pm
 

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 6/5/12 gathering:

 

  • Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
  • A Midwife's Tale 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 by Melissa Coleman
  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  • Beginning Grace by Kate Braestrup
  • Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
  • O Pioneers by Willa Cather
  • My Antonia by Willa Cather
  • American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North American by Colin Woodard (out in paperback Sep 2012)
  • National Park mystery series by Nevada Barr (1st book = Track of the Cat)

 


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

 


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

 


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

 


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

 


Books mentioned at 8/30/11 gathering:

 

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

 


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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen King's recommended for summer reading 2009:

Shatter by Michael Robotham
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
Drood by Dan Simmons
Dog on It by Spencer Quinn
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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