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: 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)

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

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