Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Results of the Email Poll

This is the brand new second Tuesday of the month book group blog, for keeping in touch, reviewing favorite books and helping to select the reading list for the group!

The results of our recent email poll suggest that:

* We should maintain a good mix of fiction and non fiction book selections.
* Books should be selected at least a few months in advance so members can plan their reading.
* Books should be in paperback and ideally available from the library to keep costs down.
* People like meeting in each other's homes each month.
* We also like having a leader for each book to keep the conversation focused on the book.

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All-time Reading List

girl with the pearl earring by t. chevalier • fall on your knees by a. m. macdonald • me talk pretty one day by d. sedaris • the french lieutenant's woman by j. fowles • prozac nation by e. wurtzel • in cold blood by t. capote • frontera street by t. barrientos • the chosen by c. potok • charming billy by a. mcdermott • mrs. dalloway by v. woolf • the hours by m. cunningham • waiting by h. jin • atonement by i. mcewan • the adventures of cavalier and clay by m. chabon • travels with charley by j. steinbeck • summer by e. wharton • fear of flying by e. jong • personal history by k. graham • the life of pi by y. martel• flux: women on sex, work, love, kids… by p. orenstein • best american short stories of 2003 • middlesex by j. eugenides • da vinci code by d. brown • palace walk by n. mahfouz • balzac and the little chinese seamstress by d. sijie • guns, germs, and steel by j. diamond • the quality of life report by m. daum • the poisonwood bible by b. kingsolver • everything is illuminated by j. safran foer • nine parts of desire by g. brooks • beowulf by s. heaney • the beggar maid by a. munro • 9-11 report • mountains beyond mountains by t. kidder • good in bed by j. weiner • bowling alone by r. putnam • the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by m. haddon • the master by c. toibin• the kite runner by k. hosseini • smilla’s sense of snow by p. hoeg• common ground by j.a. Lukas • sideways by r. pickett• pride and prejudice by j. austen • the lion, the witch and the wardrobe by c.s. lewis • housekeeping by m. robinson • class matters by b. keller • i'm a stranger here myself by b. bryson • marly and me by j. grogan • the glass castle by j. walls • white teeth by z. smith• the devil wears prada by l. weisberger • the devil in the white city by e. larson • rebecca by d. du marier • jane eyre by c. bronte • love in the time of cholera by g. garcia marquez • the tender bar by j.r. moerhinger • freakonomics by s. levitt • kettlebottom by d. fisher • the memory keepers daughter by k. edwards • three junes by j. glass • the painted veil by w.s. maugham • there are no children here by a. kotlowitz • the lost painting by j. harr • a great deliverance by e. george • the other boleyn girl by p. gregory • thirteenth tale by d. setterfield • eat, pray, love by e. gilbert