So what's on your list of books? Anything you've read and recommend? Anything you keep hearing about and can't wait to get your hands on? Make a comment on this post and we'll have a great list to pick from for future review!
**A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Interesting Story of three Afghan women showing their hard lives and help for each other. (Karla Westlake)
**The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best selling book about Afghanistan family and culture. (Karla Westlake)
River Town by Peter Hessler
True story of a young man’s adventure in the Peace Corp along the Yangtze River in China just before it was changed. It shows him learning language and culture just by mixing in with the people. (Karla Westlake)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A dark story of man and boy walking down a road after the apocalypse. It emphasizes ingenuity of keeping body and soul together and relationship between father and son. Good discussion because some will like it and some will not. (Karla Westlake)
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
A great classic showing class consciousness and relationships. (Karla Westlake)
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
A very interesting story taking place in Burma with lots of twists and turns to the story. (Karla Westlake)
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
The fictional tale about white women being given by U.S. government to Cheyenne Indians as wives. It is full of interesting facts about Indian life and question of just who are the savages. (Karla Westlake)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Interesting story about a boy with autism. (Karla Westlake)
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Story about life in South Carolina in 1900 showing hard life on the farm, drudgery of women, and hope for a marriage. (Karla Westlake)
**The Year of Wonders, a Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
Great story about puritans surviving the plague in 1660’s. It was surprisingly not a depressing book. (Karla Westlake)
**Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Very interesting story about women in China and their secret way of communicating. (Karla Westlake)
**Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos
“A tale of two women in self-imposed exile whose paths intersect transforming both their worlds….” – Amazon.com
**Devil in the White City: Murder Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Eric Larson
“Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city's finest moment, the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it. Larson strikes a fine balance between the planning and execution of the vast fair and Holmes's relentless, ghastly activities.” –Amazon.com
**The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (Linda McGinty)
“Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book–although she has not yet learned how to read–and her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers Handbook, to lull her to sleep when she’s roused by regular nightmares about her younger brothers death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents.” – Amazon.com
**Saturday By Ian McEwan (Linda McGinty)
“A smart, measured performance of McEwan's cerebral novel about an ominous day seen through the eyes of Henry Perowne, a reflective neurosurgeon whose comfortable life is shaken following a run-in with a street thug.” – Amazon.com
** These were recommended at one of our meetings
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