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

Potential Reads

Please submit books you would like the club to consider selecting for the next round.

Fiction:
Bel Canto
Elsewhere (YA)
Galore
The Heretics Daughter by Kathleen Kent (historical fiction)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Mother-Daughter Book Club (YA)
Mr. Chartwell
My Mother She Killed me, My Father He Ate me: forty new fairy tales
The Night Circus
On the Beach
The Persian Pickle Club
Room
Say her Name
Shelter Me by Juliette Fay
Up the Down Staircase
The Weird Sisters
When God was a Rabbit
When you Reach Me (YA)
Witch & Wizard (YA and manga)


Non-Fiction:
Cinderella Ate my Daughter: Dispatches from the front lines of the girlie-girl culture
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with London in its darkest, finest hour
Enslaved by Ducks
In the Garden of Beasts
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Lost in Shangri-La
Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail
x2 No Biking in the House without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene (memoir)
Nurtureshock
The Other Wes Moore
Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses (not avaialble at library)
Ride the Butterflies (not available at the library)
Tales from a Free-Range Childhood (not available at the library)
The Year we Left Home

Book Picks for Winter 11/12

October 10th: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte hosted by Trista

vember 7th: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson hosted by Rachel
December 5th: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok hosted by Wende
January 2nd: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Muakami hosted by Emily.

Books for June 2011 - October 2011

June 6: In the Neighborhood - Peter Lovenheim (Emily)
July 11: Half the Sky - Nicholas D. Kristoff (Deborah)
August 1: The Help - Kathryn Stockett (April)
September 12: Romancing Miss Bronte - Juliet Gael (Amy)
October 3: Fall of Giants - Ken Follett (Trista)***Changed to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

CHANGE OF VENUE

The book club for this Monday will be changed to my house (Anna). David is out of town and if I don't host I won't be able to go, so Trista graciously let me take over. I will also send out an email as well, but if you see or talk to anyone in book club, please make sure they know.

Selections for December 2010 - May 2011

December: Little Bee by Chris Cleave (at Wende's)
January: Family: A Novel by J. California Cooper (at Emily's)
February: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (at Shala's)
March: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Juila Stuart (at Stephani's)
April: One Day by David Nicholls (at Anna's)
May: Let the Great World Spin by Calum McCann (at Anna's)