My appetizers for my book club meeting yesterday went well! (REC inside)
- Thread starter heather_in_sf
- Start date
We do assign a book per month...
selections come from different members. But at the conclusion of each bookclub we all share other book recommendations of books we've recently shared.
I started our bookclub at our (very little) local library (small town). I put up a sign at the library and had people call me if interested. We started out about 2 months later with about 8 people. We've been having a great time - meeting at the library one evening a month. Although in December we met at a member's house for wine, appetizers and sweets.
Deb
selections come from different members. But at the conclusion of each bookclub we all share other book recommendations of books we've recently shared.
I started our bookclub at our (very little) local library (small town). I put up a sign at the library and had people call me if interested. We started out about 2 months later with about 8 people. We've been having a great time - meeting at the library one evening a month. Although in December we met at a member's house for wine, appetizers and sweets.
Deb
2006 list. the Emperors of Chocolate was interesting about the choc empires here.
2006
Jan. Twilight by Nicholas S. Stember
Feb The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Mar The Emperors of Chocolate by Joël Glenn Brenner
Apr The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
May The Cruelest Miles by Gay and Laney Salisbury
Jun Tales from the Bed: On Living, Dying, and Having It All by Jenifer Estess
Jul The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Aug Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Sept In the Heart of the Sea, the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Oct My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’Homme
Nov The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
Dec Nickel and Dimed – On (Not) Getting By in
America by Barbara Ehrenreich).
2006
Jan. Twilight by Nicholas S. Stember
Feb The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Mar The Emperors of Chocolate by Joël Glenn Brenner
Apr The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
May The Cruelest Miles by Gay and Laney Salisbury
Jun Tales from the Bed: On Living, Dying, and Having It All by Jenifer Estess
Jul The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Aug Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Sept In the Heart of the Sea, the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Oct My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’Homme
Nov The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
Dec Nickel and Dimed – On (Not) Getting By in
America by Barbara Ehrenreich).
earnie
Well-known member
My List
This is from one of my book clubs
Sept. 26, 2005 Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.
Oct. 24, 2005 Book: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Nov. 28, 2005 Book: Mrs. Kimball by Jennifer Haigh.
Jan. 23, 2006 Book: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
Feb. 27, 2006 Book: Gilead by Marylynne Robinson.
**March 27, 2006 Book: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
April 24, 2006 Book: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
May 22, 2006 Book : Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
**June 26, 2006 Book : Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by
July. 24, 2006 Movie: "Memoirs of a Geisha"
**Aug. 28, 2006 Book: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
**Sept. 25, 2006 Book: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
**Oct. 23, 2006 Book: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirosky
**Nov. 27, 2006 Book: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Dec. 8, 2006 No book: Party
Jan. 22, 2007 Book: This Year Will Be Different, Maeve Binchy
**Feb. 26, 2007 Book: My Life in France by Alex Prud'Homme
**March 26, 2007 Book: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
**April 23, 2007 Book: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
**May 28, 2007 Book: Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
June 14, 2007 No Book: Assembly for Reading List Lecture
July 24, 2007 Movie: Miss Potter
**August 27, 2007 Book: A Thousand Splendid Suns
**September 17, 2007 Book: Water For Elephants
October, 22, 2007 Book: A Year in the World by Francis Mayes
November 26, 2007 Book: Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
December No Book – Party
January 28, 2008 No Book – Gather to choose new books to read
February 25, 2008 Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
The stars before the months were books we particularly liked.
Earnie
This is from one of my book clubs
Sept. 26, 2005 Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.
Oct. 24, 2005 Book: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Nov. 28, 2005 Book: Mrs. Kimball by Jennifer Haigh.
Jan. 23, 2006 Book: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
Feb. 27, 2006 Book: Gilead by Marylynne Robinson.
**March 27, 2006 Book: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
April 24, 2006 Book: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
May 22, 2006 Book : Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
**June 26, 2006 Book : Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by
July. 24, 2006 Movie: "Memoirs of a Geisha"
**Aug. 28, 2006 Book: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
**Sept. 25, 2006 Book: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
**Oct. 23, 2006 Book: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirosky
**Nov. 27, 2006 Book: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Dec. 8, 2006 No book: Party
Jan. 22, 2007 Book: This Year Will Be Different, Maeve Binchy
**Feb. 26, 2007 Book: My Life in France by Alex Prud'Homme
**March 26, 2007 Book: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
**April 23, 2007 Book: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
**May 28, 2007 Book: Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
June 14, 2007 No Book: Assembly for Reading List Lecture
July 24, 2007 Movie: Miss Potter
**August 27, 2007 Book: A Thousand Splendid Suns
**September 17, 2007 Book: Water For Elephants
October, 22, 2007 Book: A Year in the World by Francis Mayes
November 26, 2007 Book: Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
December No Book – Party
January 28, 2008 No Book – Gather to choose new books to read
February 25, 2008 Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
The stars before the months were books we particularly liked.
Earnie
Our books and ratings (0-10 with 10 being highest)
Book Club books and ratings…1995 to present
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto - 6.21
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson - 7.5
True North - Jill Ker Conway - 7.5
1000 Acres - Jane Smiley - 5.88
Therapy - David Lodge - 6
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - 8.67
Mazel - Rebecca Goldstein - 7.6
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton - 6.71
How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan - 3.28
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - 7.7
Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds - 7.38
The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd - 4.83
In Troubled Waters - Beverly Coyle - 8.83
Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng - 7.71
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - 5.56
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - 7.38
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells - 6.67
Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser - 4.67
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien - 7.75
Are You Somebody? - Nuala O'Faolain - 6.13
What Girls Learn - Karin Cook - 4.89
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant - 8.28
The Fall of the Sparrow - Robert Hellenga - 7.1
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott - 6.5
Foreign Correspondence - Geraldine Brooks - 7.67
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell - 8.89
Dakota - Kathleen Norris -4.14
To the Wedding - John Berger - 6.0
A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind - 8.56
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama - 8.63
Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel - 5.89
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur S. Golden - 7.88
Kitchen Table Wisdom - Rachel Naomi Remen - 9.0
The Color of Water - James McBride - 8.5
A Personal History - Katherine Graham - 5.63
Callings - Gregg Michael Levoy - 5.8
Tales of the City (Vol. 1) - Armistead Maupin - 4.0
Sole Survivor - Derek Hansen - 8.75
See Jane Win - Sylvia Rimm - 5.22
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 8.63
Choclat - Joanne Harris - 8
A Gesture Life - Chang-Rae Lee - 6.88
Plainsong - Kent Haruf - 4.67
House of Sand and Fog - 6.0
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines - 8.77
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (read in conjunction with Mrs. Dalloway) 8.75
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee - 6.45
Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund - 8
One Writer's Beginning - Eudora Welty - 7
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier -7
Zenzelle - J. Nozipo Maraire - 8.2
Stones From the River - Ursula Hegi - 8.5
Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton - 8.9
Martyr's Crossing - Amy Wilentz - 7.9
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay - 8.05
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - 8.41
In Harm's Way - Doug Stanton - 8.39
A Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks - 8.25
Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler - 8.89
Atonement - Ian McEwan - 8.81
The Friendly Persuasion - Jessamyn West - 6.05
Raising Fences - Michael Datcher - 5.81
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk - 8.13
A Kiss for Maddalena - Christopher Castellani - 5.65
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 7.95
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8.69
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk - 7.88
The Translator - John Crowley - 8.6
Women Who Risk - Marilyn Olsen – Not rated
Reading Lolita In Tehran - Azar Nafisi - 7.63
Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz - 5.78
The All of It - Jeannette Haien - 7.7
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 7.3
Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant - 7.78
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - 9.33
Taken In - Beverly Coyle -6.5
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 9.38
Easter Island - Jennifer Vanderbes - 8.375
The Known World - Edward Jones - 7.56
The 6th Lamentation - William Brodrick - 8.23
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer - 5.35
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - 6.35
The Pillow Book – Sei Shohagon - 5.63
Broken For You - Stephanie Kallos - 8.5
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss - 8.56
The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer - 8.05
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan – Lisa See - 8.5
A Girl Names Zippy - Haven Kimmel - 8.08
Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel - Marianne Wiggins - 8.17
Plot Against America – Philip Roth – 8.61
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safan Foer - 8.25
Mountain Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder - 9.2
The Positions – Meg Wolitzer - 7.17
Water for Elephants – Sarah Gruen - 8.78
Beasts of No Nation – L. Iweala - 7.45
The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington - 8.3
Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards - 8.3
The Night Watch – Sarah Waters – 9.0
His Excellency George Washington – Joseph Ellis – 8.13
1000 Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini – 7.54
Restless – William Boyd – 8.9
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak – 9.55
Banker to the Poor – Muhammad Yunas – 7.59
Digging to America – Anne Tyler – 8.07
Book Club books and ratings…1995 to present
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto - 6.21
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson - 7.5
True North - Jill Ker Conway - 7.5
1000 Acres - Jane Smiley - 5.88
Therapy - David Lodge - 6
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - 8.67
Mazel - Rebecca Goldstein - 7.6
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton - 6.71
How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan - 3.28
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - 7.7
Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds - 7.38
The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd - 4.83
In Troubled Waters - Beverly Coyle - 8.83
Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng - 7.71
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - 5.56
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - 7.38
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells - 6.67
Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser - 4.67
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien - 7.75
Are You Somebody? - Nuala O'Faolain - 6.13
What Girls Learn - Karin Cook - 4.89
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant - 8.28
The Fall of the Sparrow - Robert Hellenga - 7.1
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott - 6.5
Foreign Correspondence - Geraldine Brooks - 7.67
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell - 8.89
Dakota - Kathleen Norris -4.14
To the Wedding - John Berger - 6.0
A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind - 8.56
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama - 8.63
Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel - 5.89
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur S. Golden - 7.88
Kitchen Table Wisdom - Rachel Naomi Remen - 9.0
The Color of Water - James McBride - 8.5
A Personal History - Katherine Graham - 5.63
Callings - Gregg Michael Levoy - 5.8
Tales of the City (Vol. 1) - Armistead Maupin - 4.0
Sole Survivor - Derek Hansen - 8.75
See Jane Win - Sylvia Rimm - 5.22
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 8.63
Choclat - Joanne Harris - 8
A Gesture Life - Chang-Rae Lee - 6.88
Plainsong - Kent Haruf - 4.67
House of Sand and Fog - 6.0
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines - 8.77
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (read in conjunction with Mrs. Dalloway) 8.75
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee - 6.45
Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund - 8
One Writer's Beginning - Eudora Welty - 7
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier -7
Zenzelle - J. Nozipo Maraire - 8.2
Stones From the River - Ursula Hegi - 8.5
Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton - 8.9
Martyr's Crossing - Amy Wilentz - 7.9
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay - 8.05
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - 8.41
In Harm's Way - Doug Stanton - 8.39
A Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks - 8.25
Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler - 8.89
Atonement - Ian McEwan - 8.81
The Friendly Persuasion - Jessamyn West - 6.05
Raising Fences - Michael Datcher - 5.81
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk - 8.13
A Kiss for Maddalena - Christopher Castellani - 5.65
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 7.95
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8.69
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk - 7.88
The Translator - John Crowley - 8.6
Women Who Risk - Marilyn Olsen – Not rated
Reading Lolita In Tehran - Azar Nafisi - 7.63
Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz - 5.78
The All of It - Jeannette Haien - 7.7
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 7.3
Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant - 7.78
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - 9.33
Taken In - Beverly Coyle -6.5
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 9.38
Easter Island - Jennifer Vanderbes - 8.375
The Known World - Edward Jones - 7.56
The 6th Lamentation - William Brodrick - 8.23
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer - 5.35
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - 6.35
The Pillow Book – Sei Shohagon - 5.63
Broken For You - Stephanie Kallos - 8.5
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss - 8.56
The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer - 8.05
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan – Lisa See - 8.5
A Girl Names Zippy - Haven Kimmel - 8.08
Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel - Marianne Wiggins - 8.17
Plot Against America – Philip Roth – 8.61
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safan Foer - 8.25
Mountain Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder - 9.2
The Positions – Meg Wolitzer - 7.17
Water for Elephants – Sarah Gruen - 8.78
Beasts of No Nation – L. Iweala - 7.45
The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington - 8.3
Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards - 8.3
The Night Watch – Sarah Waters – 9.0
His Excellency George Washington – Joseph Ellis – 8.13
1000 Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini – 7.54
Restless – William Boyd – 8.9
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak – 9.55
Banker to the Poor – Muhammad Yunas – 7.59
Digging to America – Anne Tyler – 8.07
Here's ours
Night by Elie Weiesel
Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Tenth Circle by Joci Picoult
Water for Elephants
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
Time Traveller's Wife
The Historian
East of Eden
Memoirs of a Geisha
Marley and Me
For the coming spring:
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
History of Love
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Beautiful Lies
Fried Green Tomatoes
Night by Elie Weiesel
Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Tenth Circle by Joci Picoult
Water for Elephants
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
Time Traveller's Wife
The Historian
East of Eden
Memoirs of a Geisha
Marley and Me
For the coming spring:
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
History of Love
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Beautiful Lies
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ours is a group of 6
Since no one has a table that seats more than six right now smileys/smile.gif
We meet 1x a month usually at someones house. We take a break in August and over the holidays. They provide the meal, we provide the wine.
We decide on 5 months at a time. Everyone brings a list of things they'd like to read / discuss along with a short description. Then the person hosting that month gets to pick one. (as long as no one is really opposed to it)
We've been running on our 4th year now. Members have shifted a bit, but it is one of my highlights each month!
Since no one has a table that seats more than six right now smileys/smile.gif
We meet 1x a month usually at someones house. We take a break in August and over the holidays. They provide the meal, we provide the wine.
We decide on 5 months at a time. Everyone brings a list of things they'd like to read / discuss along with a short description. Then the person hosting that month gets to pick one. (as long as no one is really opposed to it)
We've been running on our 4th year now. Members have shifted a bit, but it is one of my highlights each month!