Help me pick a book for our book club

[Anonymous]

We take turns selecting a book for our book club and I'm due to select for later this spring and am feeling a bit stuck. The styles tend to run the gammut from historical fiction, dystopian, magical realism, sci-fi. Recent books that were well liked but also provoked a lot of discussion were The Night Circus, The City and the City, and Demon Copperhead. There have also been a bit of grousing over library waitlists for some picks, so I'm hesitant to pick something super new and popular (e.g. The Correspondent has been on my TBR list but the MCPL wait for the ebook is insane).

Books I am considering:
Atmosphere (still a longish waitlist but not as bad)
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Homegoing

Any other suggestions?

[Anonymous]

I loved Homegoing! And since it's been out a bit, the waitlist might not be as long.

I just finished two excellent books (quite different from each other) that would make for great book club discussion: Heart the Lover (Lily King) and Culpability (Bruce Holsinger).

[Anonymous]

The Heart's Invisible Furies is one of my all-time favorite books. That will always get my vote.

My book club had great discussions about Shark Heart and Sky Full of Elephants.

My favorite book no one has heard of is The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill.

[Anonymous]

The top discussion book/favorite we've had in our book club was Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. No one ever agrees on a book...everyone loved this book. We read it years ago and still reference it.

[Anonymous]

I’m reading the seed keeper by Diane Wilson right now and loving it. It’s a few years old so might be easier to get?

[Anonymous]

Another Bruce Holsinger title: The Displacements. Most of the members in my club liked this book, all for different reasons.

Got the idea to suggest it here!

[Anonymous]

Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The top discussion book/favorite we've had in our book club was Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. No one ever agrees on a book...everyone loved this book. We read it years ago and still reference it.

I loved this book. I second the nomination.

[Anonymous]

Long Island Compromise - brodesser-Akner
The Elements - Boyne
The Names - Knapp
Buckeye - Ryan

[Anonymous]

Have you read Pachinko? It came out a few years ago so should be easy to hunt down.
Other suggestions:
Knife (Salman Rushdie)
James (Percival Everett)
A fine balance (Robinson Mistry)

[Anonymous]

Homegoing

[Anonymous]

Homegoing is very long and was a DNF for me. I loved Hearts Invisible Furies, also long, but flew by.

[Anonymous]

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

No. Inaccurate representation of the migrant experience, furtherance of stereotypes, and we don't need any more white people writing stories that belong to people of color, especially with regard to oppression.

Find something other than American Dirt, OP.

[Anonymous]

Weyward or Theo of golden. You’d have lots to discuss.