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Readers Respond: What is the Best Book your Book Club has Read?

Responses: 12

By Erin Collazo Miller, About.com

From the article: Book Club Reading List
With so many books on the bestsellers lists, how can you decide which ones would be good reads for your book club? Here are personal recommendations from avid readers and book club members to add to this one year book club reading list. Share Your Favorite

Book Club Books

The Best book our book club has ever read is the Boy in the Striped Pajamas
—Guest Dakota Bloyd

Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie...

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society produced the most conversation of any book we ever read.
—Guest Alice

The Glass Castle

Horrifying, moving, and, ultimately-full of hope. I could not put it down.
—Guest PBE

The Economics of Sex

A very new book that was funny and provocative written by Robert Shields.
—Beth72219

The Book Thief

I agree with mwensberg...our group also loved The Book Thief. It was so incredibly unlike any book I've ever read. Just beautiful and sad...and beautiful.
—met0813

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

one of the best books i have ever read. Not only was it an enjoyable read it was also a learning experience
—Guest sally

A Prayer for Owen Meany

This is the best book I've read to date, and I read a lot!!
—Guest Lily

A Thousand Splendid Suns

By the author of the Kite Runner. Wonderful book about the plight of women in war torn Afghanistan. He is a great storyteller.
—Guest Carolkstarsfan

Shadow of the Wind

We still can't stop talking about it...we loved the setting and all the twists and turns.
—login4108

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

In this day of political correctness to the extreme, it's a good reminder of what the immigrants at the turn-of-the-century faced, and how they overcame obstacles, rather than expecting to be taken care of. Good coming-of-age story with lessons for all about perserverence and effort.
—PittsburghReaders

The Book Thief

A beautifully written, captivating book about the Holocaust but really about so much more. Amazing that you can fall in love with a book about such a devastating subject but you truly will.
—mwensberg

My Book Club Loved...

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. It's very different from most books, but there is a love story at the core, and the themes are universal.
—ReadThinkSpeak

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