Got a good book recommendation?

[drama_kween]

I have a mini-book club with my old teacher friends.  We do this each summer.  We each pick a book, host a day and have thematic food.

I need help picking my book.

I'm looking for something good along the lines of:
Red Tent
Lovely Bones
Memoirs of a Geisha
Kite Runner

A couple I came up with are:
Memory Keeper's Daughter
Glass Castle (memoir though, not

Comments

[gogogrrl]

did you already do Time Traveler's Wife?

[drama_kween]

Oh yeah..that was the other one on my list!!!
Did you like it?

[xinie]

I LOVE THAT BOOK!

[gogogrrl]

i totally cried. it was awesome. I'm cautiously optimistic about the movie. . .

[amymarr]

We read Water For Elephants for our bookclub, and it was awesome. Haven't read Time Traveler's Wife, though; I'll have to check that out. I started MKD, but couldn't finish it.

You can see what our bookclub has read by going here: http://community.livejournal.com/_philologia_/tag/reading+lists

[amymarr]

That's a neat idea, doing themed food. Water for Elephants would be super fun - circus food!!! :)

[katatonic_state]

I just recently finished Lan Samantha Chang's Inheritance

It's a beautiful book that spans several decades -- the bulk of it is set around the time that the Communists took over China.

[kadnkadnk]

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan was quite good, I just finished it.
-k

[lcmed]

Do you have that or was it a library find? If you own, would you mind if I borrowed?

[kadnkadnk]

Neither - I borrowed it from my cousin. So I wouldn't be comfortable loaning it out, I'm sorry. She also loaned me "Eat, Pray, Love", which I'm going to re-read before I return.

-k

[sla]

Peony in Love was very good, if not a bit strange. If you want to go with something that came out quite a while ago I highly recommend A Town Like Alice, definitely in my top 10 ever.

-steph