Book Club Selections

My Book Club Since 2009

**No time to write a review for all of them, but a lot of the book club selections we've read have links for my reviews.**

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (loved it!)
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
The Chicken Sisters by K.J. Dell'Antonia
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Bookshop of Yesteryear by Amy Meyerson
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
The One by John Marrs
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Jell-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple 
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Auntie Mame by Dennis Patrick
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World by Brian Doyle
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
The Widow by Fiona Barton
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown 
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katerina Bivald
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Intensity by Dean Koontz
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan
Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante by Susan Elia MacNeal
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
I'm Down by Mishna Wolff
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Island's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
Serena by Ron Rash
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Babayaga by Toby Barlow
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Lady at the O.K. Corral by Ann Kirschner
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Zoo by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
The Diary of Mattie Spenser
A Good American by Alex George 
Perfume by Patrick SuskindWhat Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Dreams of Joy: A Novel by Lisa See
The Island by Elin Hilderbrand
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
Different Drummers by Don Caron and Lyle Hatcher
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Bk 2) by Suzanne Collins
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Bk 1) by Suzanne Collins
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Little Bee (aka The Other Hand) by Chris Cleave
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millenium Trilogy, Bk 2) by Stieg Larsson 
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Unworthy by Kimberly Wohlert
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, Bk 1) by Stieg Larsson
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
The Devil in White City by Erik Larson
My Lobotomy by Charles Fleming & Howard Dully
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 
Soup in the City by Kelly Hollingsworth
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
C'est La Vie : An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French by Suzy Gershman
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller


Comments

Unknown said…
Annette, Thanks for the nice blog written about our treehouse! I also enjoyed your reading list...I have read a lot of the same books! It was so nice to meet you!
November 11, 2015 at 6:10 PM
Reading in the Garden said…
:) I'm glad you liked it. Others can read more about it at http://readinginthegarden.blogspot.com/2015/11/quirky-sleeps-by-bruce-and-susan_8.html
November 12, 2015 at 5:33 AM
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