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this isn''t a super deep read, but "eat, pray, love" is a really fun book and is great for an all women''s book club :) my FI''s mother lent the book to me (she is in her 50s, works in education for individuals with special needs) and i loved it (me 23, just finished school, trying to get into med school). so i think it could work really well for your age range and diversity of professions
another jodi picoult book is "my sister''s keeper" which i read before the movie came out (i dind''t see the movie, i felt like it would''ve ruined the book). great book to debate about law and raising children if the women in your club are mothers |
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A long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Once and Future King Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Memoirs of a Geisha Dance of the Dissident Daughter ( non fic by Sue Monk Kidd, fantastic book) The Quantum Mind (Physics applied to Psychology but easy to understand, really fascinating book) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle A Clockwork Orange 100 Years of Solitude Love in the Time of Cholera A Handmaid''s Tale Wuthering Heights A Beautiful Mind Under the Tuscan Sun My Life in France I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Life of Pi She''s Come Undone Angela''s Ashes Night The Color Purple Sula Beloved Life of a Slave Girl Reading Lolita in Tehran Cry, The Beloved Country The Poisonwood Bible Roots Le Morte De Arthur ( I recommend reading the unabridged version of this, it is fantastic) Lord of the Rings (you can get the unabridged books combined into one, and read them one at a time) Les Miserables Don Quixote War and Peace Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Vanity Fair The Crimson Petal and the White Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Geisha (a biography of a real Geisha) Swan (by the author of Under the Tuscan Sun) The Shack Cold Mountain Snow Falling on Cedars The World According to Garp Cider House Rules The Book of Merlyn An Inconvenient Truth Living to Tell the Tale ( autobiography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez) The Omnivore''s Dilemma Eat, Pray, Live The Man Who Listens to Horses Where the Red Fern Grows The Yearling |
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hi Haven
 I think a great book for a book club would be This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson Its a long read but absolutely gripping, tells the life story of the captain of the HMS BEagle...So for discussion you have a lot of fodder in the theory of evolution and how the author presents the debate. Also its based quite strictly on historical fact, but a work of fiction - so there would be interesting discussion insofar as how that works, problems with it etc. Id also recommend Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and The Famished Road by Ben Okri. Both allow for lots of discussion re colonizations effect on African nations etc. They''re both very interesting politically and stylistically. |
I''m a dork, I know.
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Ditto. Also to Middlesex. Some more options: Other Barbara Kingsolver books if you haven''t read them (esp The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven). Special Topics in Calamity Physics The Summer Guest A Pigeon and A Boy (we just read this in my book club and I made my mom and bf read it after I did) The Wedding - Dorothy West Those Who Save Us What I Loved Anything by Edwidge Danticat A Thousand Splendid Suns Eleni (exceptional!) Like Water for Chocolate The Red Tent I''m stopping now  Recommending books is one of my chief joys in life! (hence the name)
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i second this suggestion without even reading ''a year of pleasures.'' i''ve read five elizabeth berg titles this month. ''a year of pleasures'' is next on my list. all of her books have been fantastic. |
