Suggestions for new books

It's that time again when we pick new books! Please think about some of your favorites and send me (Emily) a list of ideas. We will pick books for the second half of the year at our July meeting. As always, please only suggest books you are very confident about promoting AND do a quick survey of the library holdings to ascertain that it is one we can feasibly get a hold of for free. Thanks!

FICTION
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Norman Tuttle on the last frontier: a novel in stories by Tom Bodett

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

NON-FICTION

Better: A Surgeons's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Bomb: the Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
The End of your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffery Canada
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Why Do they act that way? A survival guide to the adolescent brain for you and your teen by David Walsh

Less than a week until book club....

2013: Part 1

January 7th: Gifts from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh @ Suzy's
(Suggested corollary reading: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf)
February 4th: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein @ Alissa's
March 4th: Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda @ Wende's
April 8th: Quiet:  The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain @ Katrina's
May 6th: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett @ Emily's
June 3rd: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick @ Joanna's
July 1st: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker @ April's

Suggested for 2013...

FICTION

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (KR)

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein--lots of copies (EO)
Gifts from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (DP)
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (KR)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett--plenty of copies in the library system(SJ)

NON-FICTION

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar (KR)
 The Defining Decade by Meg Jay--only 5 copies(SJ)

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick--plenty of copies(SJ)
Quiet:  The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain (KR)



2012:Part II

*August 12th: Still Alice by Lisa Genova @ Aprils
*September 10th: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown @ Amys
October 1st: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons @ Emilys
November 5th: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs @ Deborahs
December 3rd: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes @ Aprils

*N/B: the dates of discussion vary from our normal first Mondays.  Just trying to keep you on your toes!

Potential Reads Part II

Fiction

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (9 copies at least)

[Bel Canto by Ann Patchett] (50+ copies)

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (20+ copies)

Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran (15 copies)

[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs] (30+ copies)

On the Beach by Nevil Shute (20 copies)

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson ( 20 copies)

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes(30 copies)

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (30+ copies)

Still Alice by Lisa Genova(20 copies)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley(25 copies)

[The Wierd Sisters By Eleanor Brown](25 copies)

Non-Fiction

[In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson]( 12 copies)

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons (25 copies)

Key

[previously considered]

2012 Part 1

February 6th
Nurtureshock by Po Bronson @ Suzys

March 5th
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde @ Wendes

April 2nd
The Heretics Daughter by Kathleen Kent @ Deborahs

May 7th
No Biking in the House without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene @ Emilys with treats by Trista

June 4th
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern @ Suzy's

July 9th
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua @ Emily's