The sidebar has been updated with 2017’s reading
schedule and an updated Reading History.
Also, here’s a list
of the 16 suggested books from our book selection meeting on Friday, 12/2. The list is sorted by the book’s Goodreads.com
rating. (*Asterisk indicates the 5
extra books that didn’t fit into the 11 month reading schedule.)
Book Suggestions for 2017:
|
Title
& Author
|
From Goodreads.com
|
|||
|
Year First Published
|
Page Count
|
Rating
|
# of ratings
|
|
|
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Blackman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Generational, Humor |
2014
|
337
|
4.33
|
121,545
|
|
*Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Romantic Novel |
2012
|
369
|
4.28
|
610,743
|
|
Rebecca by Daphne du
Maurier
Genre: Crime Fiction, Mystery, Romance |
1938
|
393
|
4.2
|
305,251
|
|
The Wright
Brothers by David McCullough
Genre: Non-Fiction, History |
2015
|
320
|
4.15
|
31,952
|
|
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
and Annie Barrows
Genre: WWII Historical Fiction |
2008
|
274
|
4.11
|
398,456
|
|
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Genre: 19th Century China Historical Fiction |
2005
|
269
|
4.05
|
275,371
|
|
*Charms for the Easy Life
by Kaye Gibbons
Genre: Southern America Historical Fiction, Romantic Novel |
2005
|
272
|
4.01
|
10,279
|
|
*The Shoemaker’s Wife
by Adriana Trigiani
Genre: Italian American Historical Fiction |
2012
|
475
|
3.97
|
56,911
|
|
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
Genre: Historical Fiction, Humor |
2013
|
347
|
3.96
|
29,088
|
|
*My Fair Gentleman
by Nancy Campbell Allen
Genre: Fiction, Regency, Proper Romance |
2016
|
256
|
3.94
|
1,059
|
|
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Genre: YA Fiction, Fantasy |
1996
|
280
|
3.92
|
38,619
|
|
The Teacher’s Funeral by Richard Peck
Genre: Historical Fiction, Comedy, Humor |
2004
|
208
|
3.86
|
3,731
|
|
Forever and Forever: The Courtship of
Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton by Josi S. Kilpack
Genre: Biographical Fiction, Proper Romance |
2016
|
336
|
3.73
|
607
|
|
Tepper Isn’t Going Out
by Calvin Trillin
Genre: Humorous Fiction, Satire |
2001
|
224
|
3.73
|
1,155
|
|
*The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise by
Julia Stuart
Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Comedy, Humor |
2010
|
304
|
3.58
|
7,481
|
|
The Railwayman’s Wife
by Ashley Hay
Genre: Post WWII (1948) Historical Fiction |
2013
|
288
|
3.46
|
1,172
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