Sunday, September 16, 2012

Selections for 2013 Season

Below is the list of all the books nominated for our 2013 Book Club Year.

Selected Books for 2013:
  • The Kitchen House: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom
  • Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • The Bolter by Frances Osborne
  • Objects of My Affection: A Novel by Jill Smolinski
  • Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts (October 2012 Selection)
  • 50 Shades of Grey by EL James ("Special" August 2013 Selection)
Options for the 2013 Co-Ed Meeting:
  • Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
  • In the Garden of Beasts:  Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
  • Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
  • People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • The Invisible Man & The Time Machine by HG Wells
"Musician Biography" Compilation... an idea:
  • Fire and Rain:  The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 by David Browne
  • Baby, Let's Play House:  Elvis Presley & the Women Who Loved Him by Alanna Nash
  • Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story by J. Randy Taraborelli
  • Life by Keith Richards
Other recommended books, not selected:
  • Guilty Wives by James Patterson
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • Girls Like Us:  Carol King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- And the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller and Susan Ericksen Grissom
  • Quiet:  The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore
  • One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus