How many of you belong to a book club? Also, any favorite books you’d recommend. I highly recommend Shark Heart!
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I just started a book club! We’re doing banned and challenged books and our first meeting is December 29. We’re reading The Handmaid’s Tale (my choice) and then each month a different member gets to pick a new banned/challenged book.
dec 6, 2024, 12:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Weathercock by Glen Duncan, but fair warning, it's pretty messed up, though beautifully written. Would also recommend two of his other books The Bloodstone Papers and I, Lucifer
dec 6, 2024, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I love "A Prayer For Owen Meany" and "Vineland" by Pynchon, but if I want to escape from today's world I am going to turn to the "Bill" books by New Jersey's own Rick Gualtieri. Literature? Perhaps not. Entertainment? Definitely.
dec 6, 2024, 10:41 am • 3 0 • view
Obviously the first book mentioned is by Irving. I didn't say so because it had already been mentioned, but when I read it back it seemed necessary.
dec 6, 2024, 10:42 am • 0 0 • view
No book club here. However, I’ve been reading the Atlas trilogy by Olivie Blake. Worth a try, I’d definitely recommend.
dec 6, 2024, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I am enjoying the romances of Georgette Heyer. Start with “The Grand Sophy”
may 14, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
A woman at my local indie bookstore recommended Shark Heart, and I bought it. So strange and poignant! Loved it!
dec 6, 2024, 12:06 pm • 3 0 • view
The Door to Door Bookstore by Carson Henn, and Starter Villain by John Scalzi.
dec 6, 2024, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Meredith i'd love to interview you on my retro podcast SPLAT FROM THE PAST, we have mutual friends!
dec 6, 2024, 10:34 am • 0 0 • view
No book club, per se, but one of my faves is Caleb Carr’s The Alienist!
dec 6, 2024, 7:55 am • 2 0 • view
Also, The Book of Lost Friends.
dec 6, 2024, 7:57 am • 1 0 • view
I love my book club. Just finished Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, recommend Americanah, The Orphan Masters Son, The Dry is a great mystery. And I love anything by Elmore Leonard!
dec 6, 2024, 7:48 am • 2 0 • view
I’m reading Heaven and Earth Grocery Store right now!
dec 6, 2024, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
No club I’ve recently enjoyed Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone on this Train Is a Suspect. Looking forward to reading his Christmas novella.
dec 6, 2024, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
Those are great and that guy can sure pack a lot of characters into one book! Try Richard Osman if you liked him.
dec 6, 2024, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Our little book club really enjoyed “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt and “You Are Here” by David Nicholls.
dec 6, 2024, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I do...24 years and counting! We have read a smattering of everything. Loved Personal Librarian, The Rosie Project, anything by Ann Patchett, Harlan Coben, Barbara Kingsolver...so many delicious reads.
dec 6, 2024, 8:17 am • 2 0 • view
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving is a wonderful book about faith that haunted me for weeks after I finished it. Or, since it’s Christmas time, Lamb - The Gospel According to Bif, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore is hilarious.
dec 6, 2024, 10:34 am • 7 0 • view
I'm in a sci-fi book club that mostly reads Hugo winners (and various runners-up for the same award). We're currently reading Robert Heinlein's Double Star.
dec 6, 2024, 12:36 pm • 3 0 • view
My friends and I recommend comics to one another by saying “oh, DUDE…”. Does that count? Probably not.
dec 6, 2024, 10:48 am • 0 0 • view
CHOMP by Carl Hiaasen, and COSMIC by Frank Cottrell Boyce. You may be familiar with Hisasen, who had been a longtime reporter and columnist for the Miami Herald and who has lampooned many of the sorry sides of Florida. Cottrell Boyce has written a number of children’s books, along with other work.
dec 19, 2024, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
My grandchildren might hide my knee wrap and my cane if I don’t mention the first three PENDERWICKS books by Jeanne Birdsall. There are decent short summaries of many books and films on Wikipedia, if you hadn’t known that already. The first three of the five Penderwicks books have been summarized.
dec 19, 2024, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Although it is a children’s book, COSMIC says some worthwhile things about parenting.
dec 19, 2024, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
My book Club ist the "Literaturcafé". We are all elderly Ladies. We're Reading Salman Rushdie's "Midnight Children". A very good book.
dec 6, 2024, 8:35 am • 3 0 • view
Our book club has been active since 2014! would recommend The Overstory (2018) by Richard Powers and Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
dec 6, 2024, 1:16 pm • 3 0 • view
I just finished 'I cheerfully Refuse' by Lief Enger for our book club and I really enjoyed it. (Our club of 6 will hit 30 years next year!)
dec 6, 2024, 11:54 am • 4 0 • view
Wow!
dec 6, 2024, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Are graphic novels okay? If so... - Penny Nichols by Reed, Means, and Wiegle - Slaughterhouse-Five adapted by Ryan North and Albert Monteys - Gumballs by Erin Nations - Anything by Faith Erin Hicks or Jen Wang
dec 17, 2024, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
Is nonfiction okay? If so... - Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich - Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
dec 17, 2024, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
Paddle to the Amazon- Don Starkell White oleander- Janet Fitch
jan 4, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The Phantom Tollbooth. Also, The Stand.
dec 6, 2024, 10:55 am • 1 0 • view
The Women by Kristin Hannah
jun 19, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I used to join several Twitch streamers that would rotate hosting a book club with a new book each month. The last book was The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It's a tale of dueling magicians, and was being made into a movie, but COVID shelved it indefinitely.
dec 6, 2024, 9:11 am • 1 0 • view
I just started “James” by Percival Everett and it’s excellent. It’s a bonus if you’re familiar with Huck Finn. It’s told from Jim’s perspective. I heard somewhere that Spielberg is developing it as a feature film.
dec 6, 2024, 1:53 pm • 6 0 • view
was just gonna recommend that one. i love the author's work. i am in a book club of 2. i've been introducing my play niece to octavia butler and colson whitehead.
dec 6, 2024, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s our book this month!!!!!!!!!
dec 6, 2024, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Yay! I want to hear how you like it.
dec 9, 2024, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Anything by Terry Pratchett. Particularly the Discworld novels. He had a very unique take on life, death, and the human condition. Also, he was funny as hell.
dec 6, 2024, 7:39 am • 4 0 • view
I'm not part of a book club, but I just finished a great audiobook. bsky.app/profile/jrto...
may 14, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
Apples Never Fall by Moriarty is also good.
may 20, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm going through Nine Perfect Strangers right now because it was the book of hers with the shortest waitlist at my library. I'll try for Apples Never Fall next!
may 20, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Excellent. I hope you enjoy both!
may 20, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
🙋🏻♀️ We read social/political/historical nonfiction Recommended: Isabel Wilkerson. The warmth of other suns.
dec 6, 2024, 7:36 am • 2 0 • view
I run a cook book book club, where we have a meal where each of us cooks a recipe and we discuss the book and our recipe(s.) We’re in year 9, minus about 14 months because of covid. Happy to make recommendations, starting with Ottolenghi’s Simple and Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table.
may 14, 2025, 4:52 am • 2 0 • view
I run a Cook Book Book Club, but that isn’t exactly the same thing. We cook from the chosen book at our approximately once-a-month meetings. I would recommend anything by Ottolenghi or Melissa Clark.
dec 6, 2024, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view
I do not. But Hyperion Cantos.
may 14, 2025, 9:24 am • 0 0 • view
I’ve been in a book club with 9 inspiring women for the last 14 years and my favorite books from that time (we rotate between classic fiction, modern fiction and non-fiction) are: Rules of Civility The Vanishing Half Why Fish Don’t Exist
dec 6, 2024, 9:04 am • 1 0 • view
A History of Love by Nicole Krauss
may 14, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
My book club read The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst for November. It’s very cute, very cozy.
dec 6, 2024, 7:38 am • 1 0 • view