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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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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You have to give us some recommendations from your Mom’s club too![/quote]

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.)[/quote]

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