Book Club Ideas needed

[Anonymous]

What are some great choices for a Womens book club with a focus on light, fun reads? Books that would inspire conversation around various themes, strong character development, etc. Looking to bring together a group versus have controversial discussion. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

The Wedding People

Anything by Sara Confino Goodman (Behind Every Man, or Don't Forget to Write)

[Anonymous]

Nora Goes Off Script

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Just finished Shark Heart. Quirky, light, but interesting. Women gets married to a man who, through a genetic mutation, turns into a shark.

[Anonymous]

Two I read recently on recommendations. One new, one older.
The Wedding People
The Glass Kitchen

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My book club just finished A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende. Great read & fun discussion.

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My book club had a great discussion after reading Shark Heart.

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What Alice Forgot. Easy, fun book and has great discussion topics.

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Margot’s Got Money Troubles
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom
True Biz
Better Living Through Birding

[Anonymous]

Elin Hildebrand, The Identicals or Five-Star Weekend

The Identicals is a spin on the Parent Trap, two adult identical twins who spent most of their lives on different island (Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard) switch islands/lives for the summer.

Five-Star Weekend: A woman brings together 4 friends from different stages of her life for a weekend on Nantucket.


Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows
A collection of stories about the animals/plants in her backyard, this may not sound super compelling but it's beautifully written and feels very relevant.

[Anonymous]

How literary is this group? My mom's book club reads much more serious/literary stuff than what I tend to like.

Assuming you don't need super literary:

The Rosie Project - It's a little older but I just read and really loved it, on a friend's recommendation

Annie Bot - a short, really engrossing novel about a sex bot who seeks autonomy (this one is pretty literary but I know my mom would hate it; I usually use her as my metric for what a book club will and won't like)

Wedding People - you might love it or hate it, but I thought it was good reading! It tries to tackle some serious stuff - somewhat successfully - but is also a fun romp about a woman whose husband's left her who's figuring out what comes next (TWs: there is some talk of suicide and death)

DC local Linda Holmes has a new book out about a podcaster searching for love - I am not a big romance reader, so I haven't read more than her first novel but I know a lot of people really love her work

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Anonymous wrote:How literary is this group? My mom's book club reads much more serious/literary stuff than what I tend to like.

Assuming you don't need super literary:

The Rosie Project - It's a little older but I just read and really loved it, on a friend's recommendation

Annie Bot - a short, really engrossing novel about a sex bot who seeks autonomy (this one is pretty literary but I know my mom would hate it; I usually use her as my metric for what a book club will and won't like)

Wedding People - you might love it or hate it, but I thought it was good reading! It tries to tackle some serious stuff - somewhat successfully - but is also a fun romp about a woman whose husband's left her who's figuring out what comes next (TWs: there is some talk of suicide and death)

DC local Linda Holmes has a new book out about a podcaster searching for love - I am not a big romance reader, so I haven't read more than her first novel but I know a lot of people really love her work

You have to give us some recommendations from your Mom’s club too!

[Anonymous]

On the lighter side, lately I've enjoyed Remarkably Bright Creatures, Embassy Wife, and The Fortunes of Jaded Women.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How literary is this group? My mom's book club reads much more serious/literary stuff than what I tend to like.

Assuming you don't need super literary:

The Rosie Project - It's a little older but I just read and really loved it, on a friend's recommendation

Annie Bot - a short, really engrossing novel about a sex bot who seeks autonomy (this one is pretty literary but I know my mom would hate it; I usually use her as my metric for what a book club will and won't like)

Wedding People - you might love it or hate it, but I thought it was good reading! It tries to tackle some serious stuff - somewhat successfully - but is also a fun romp about a woman whose husband's left her who's figuring out what comes next (TWs: there is some talk of suicide and death)

DC local Linda Holmes has a new book out about a podcaster searching for love - I am not a big romance reader, so I haven't read more than her first novel but I know a lot of people really love her work

You have to give us some recommendations from your Mom’s club too!

I can give you a few of her recent reads!

Horse by Geraldine Brooks - she loved this one
The Lion Women of Tehran - she LOVED this one
The Vegetarian - she hated this one; like months after reading it she's still saying how much she hated it - but all the stuff she hated sounds like things I think I would like, so I might read it

Basically, she and her friends are always reading Barbara Kingsolver-type stuff. And who doesn't love BK? (Me, I like shorter books.)

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