Yea! Who loves a book list? Get out your pencils . . .which books
do you plan to read with our book club this year? We voted last week
and the final results are in. If you’ve read any of them , send in a
comment with your opinion—-or just send me an email at
booksandbooks (at) comcast.net. Here goes:
January 20—-And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Feb 17 ———Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III
March 17 ——River of Doubt by Candice Millard
April 21 ——-The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
May 19 ——–North River: A Novel by Pete Hamill
Jun 16 ——–The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Jul 21 ———Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Aug 18 ——–Faces of the Gone: A Mystery by Brad Parks
Sep 15 ——–The Confessions of Saint Augustine by St. Augustine
Oct 20 ——–Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Nov 17 ——–Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Dec 15 ———Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
alternates: (we order books from our libraries and sometimes
need to make last minute substitutions so we need alternates)
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
by Immaculée Ilibaqiza
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith
Nice list! I’ve read a couple of the books on the list. You have some great reading to look forward to!
Thanks for looking it over. I’m looking forward
to some interesting reading next year.