Anonymous
Post 03/26/2025 07:19     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Midnight library
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 10:49     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
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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!


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.)


I’m so envious of your mom’s book club! These are exactly what I’d like to discuss, even the Vegetarian haha. Unfortunately, mine is mostly thrillers


I can't decide how I feel about the Vegetarian. It disturbed me quite a bit, so I didn't enjoy the time I spent reading it, but I remember it well and it made me think. Does that mean it was a good book?
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 06:39     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
God of the Woods (Liz Moore)
Latecomer (Jean Hanf Koralitz)
You are Here (Karin Lee-Greenberg)
I think all are published 2023-2024
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 21:53     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.)


I’m so envious of your mom’s book club! These are exactly what I’d like to discuss, even the Vegetarian haha. Unfortunately, mine is mostly thrillers


i’m pp and i’d love a book club that reads thrillers! any good ones you guys have read?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 15:51     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Anonymous wrote:
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.)


I’m so envious of your mom’s book club! These are exactly what I’d like to discuss, even the Vegetarian haha. Unfortunately, mine is mostly thrillers
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 11:12     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Anonymous wrote:My book club needed something lighthearted and read
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto.

Everyone except me loved it.


I think I'm the only person who didn't like Dial A For Aunties - same author.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 10:01     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
My book club needed something lighthearted and read
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto.

Everyone except me loved it.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 09:47     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
I second Horse by Geraldine Brooks. A beautiful read my book group loved.
I like anything by Elinor Lipman, always light.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 08:47     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
I was part of an office-based book club that got stuck in a repetitive rut of WW2 /Holocaust/UK family drama and romance novels.

Here is a non-fiction book about running a bridal shop that I thought was feminine enough to appeal to them. But they wouldn't do non-fiction. Maybe this might be an option? I found a web page that shows the author's daughter and book subject (store owner) support book clubs.

https://magicroombook.com/
https://magicroombook.com/updates/index.html
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 08:37     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Sandwich is an easy read. No major character development, but a lot of introspection about life from a woman in her 50s, set against a light mood, and a beautiful cape cod vacation backdrop.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 07:53     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Celeste Ng.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 07:52     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Same PP as above.

I thinks it’s okay to not only read about domestic or relationship matters. There is a ton of fiction out there that is easy and accessible— some are thrillers based on some fundamental (non female-dominated) problems. I Feel like I am dive-bombing this group for the fire time sorry!

Celia Ng (I am getting the spelling wrong). omg. So good. Every book I’ve lifted is hers is awesome.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2025 07:44     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
Anonymous wrote:What Alice Forgot. Easy, fun book and has great discussion topics.


This book is pretty old but i loved it It’s about nearing middle age , impossibly funny and wonderful

I loved Legends and Lattes

I’m not as big readers as y’all but John Grisham has thought provoking books about social topics. Easy to read. Any one

I also discussed re discovered Cormac MacCarthy (so many books) for thought provoking fiction. He is easy to read too
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2025 15:41     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
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



I LOVED The Rosie Project! Also liked Annie Bot and enjoy The Wedding People.

TRP is a trilogy - I read the first two and then I think the third came out later and I haven't read that.


This is PP and I was thinking of reading the next TRP book! But sometimes I feel let down by sequels so I wasn't sure if I felt like jumping back in right away. Did you like the second one?
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2025 16:40     Subject: Book Club Ideas needed
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



I LOVED The Rosie Project! Also liked Annie Bot and enjoy The Wedding People.

TRP is a trilogy - I read the first two and then I think the third came out later and I haven't read that.