We had book club last night to discuss Dorian Gray. It made a
good book for discussion. You might try it, too.
We also chose our 12 books for next year’s reading. We had some discussion about each of the 51 books that had been suggested, and voted by a show of hands for our choices. Listed below are our selections in alphabetical order.
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
American Rust Philipp Meyer
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Crow Lake Mary Lawson
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Old School Tobias Wolff
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan C. Bradley
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
The World Without Us Alan Weisman
Or, for those readers who prefer to read by authors, the list goes like this:
Bradley, Alan C. Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
Larson, Erik The Devil in the White City
Lawson, Mary Crow Lake
Meyer, Philipp American Rust
Miller, Henry Tropic of Cancer
Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Weisman, Alan The World Without Us
Wolff, Tobias Old School
Good list! Some classic, some modern; some “banned”, some
non-fiction. (and a mystery thrown in for good measure)
I’ll publish the list on a month t0 month assignment when it becomes
available, and then you can read along with us!
In the meantime, the book selection for November is
“Waiting for Snow in Havana” by Carlos Eire. It won a
National Book Award and was published in 2003.
