Making a list for all to check twice...
I've got a long list of suggestions for the upcoming months... While the host for each particular month makes the final decision, your input and comments may be a strong influence. Please post your suggestions as well so that this book club might reflect all members and not just the zealous blogkeeper. If possible, provide a brief synopsis or link to one.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon.
An autistic boy investigates the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog.
The Time Traveler's Wife
An autistic boy investigates the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog.
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger.
Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life.
The Shadow of the Wind
Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life.
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia Graves (Translator).
A rare book opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love.
Three Junes
A rare book opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love.
Three Junes
by Julia Glass.
It's about 3 people whose stories all begin in June. The stories are all touching, sweet, and funny.
In the Time of the Butterflies
It's about 3 people whose stories all begin in June. The stories are all touching, sweet, and funny.
In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez.
Based on a true story of a group of sisters in the Dominican Republic and their struggles for human rights during the Trujillo regime.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Based on a true story of a group of sisters in the Dominican Republic and their struggles for human rights during the Trujillo regime.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson.
The stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the construction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor.
The Clothes They Stood Up In & Lady in the Van
The stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the construction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor.
The Clothes They Stood Up In & Lady in the Van
by Allen Bennett.
Two stories about the strange nature of possessions... or the lack of them.
Two stories about the strange nature of possessions... or the lack of them.
by Margaret Atwood.
Odysseus's wife, Penelope, gets to tell her version of what she was really up to while Odysseus was away for 20 years, fighting in the Trojan War and traveling the Aegean Sea.
