What Has Been Your Favorite Book Club Book?

some old, some new choices:

The Book Thief! (Loved it. And so did the club.)
Room
Moloka'i
Jim the Boy
Dracula (seriously, we all had a great discussion on it last year)
Tinkers (some loved it, some hated it, so good chat)
The Devil in the White City
Loving Frank (very good if you don't already know the end; don't peek!)
Me and Emma
Blue Diary
Suite Francais
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The River Midnight
Interpreter of Maladies
Blindness
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Sicken
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
We Need to Talk about Kevin (mothers will have a lot to talk about with this one)

I could go on and on...my book club has met for more than 8 years! We don't always agree on a book but that can make the discussion more fun.

I loved the book "The Red Tent" - by Anita Diamant. I also loved "Sotah" - by Naomi Ragan.

Sarah Key
Pillars of the Earth
World without End
Picking Cotton
This Much I know is True or any Wally Lamb book

I belong to a book club. there are 10 of us in the club. we meet the second friday of each month. We decided last year at christmas to set genre's and take turns picking the book. we meet at each other's houses. these are the genre's we had and the book for each month

January - Good Grief (I don't remember what the catagory was for that one)
February - Romance Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
March - American Wife (about the life of laura bush) by Curtis Sittenfeld
April - wednesday sisters (can't remember the catagory)
May - Spoken from the Heart by Barbara Bush
June - no angel by Jay Dobyns
July - Children's literature The Giver by Lois Lowry
August - Mystery Tell no one by I think Harlan Coban
September - Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
October - Horror
November
December - The Christmas Jars by Jason Wright

can't remember the other months lol. Wow how sad. Going to go look at my list. a lot of books you can ask at the library and they will get you discussion questions

We're reading "The Hotel Between Bitter and Sweet" and it's really good!

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman.

This was voted the best book read in years by the book group I was part of for 10 years. It is an amazing story of a young Hmong girl living in CA who was diagnosed with epilepsy and the years-long clash between the beliefs of the physicians treating her and the traditional Hmong beliefs of her family. The author treated both sides fairly and accurately. I was left with an understanding of this interesting culture

A review on Amazon "I was one of the physicians involved in the care of Lia Lee. I'm referred to in the book as the physician that first diagnosed Lia's spells as seizures. Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp, the principal pediatricians in the book, were and are good friends of mine. Having experienced Lia Lee's saga personally, and then having read the book, I can only refer to Anne Fadiman's talent as astounding. Anne walks an incredibly fine, and very well documented, line as she describes what happens when American medical technology meets up with a deep and ancient Eastern culture. My team (Western medicine) failed Lia. Never have I felt so fairly treated in defeat, and never have I felt so much respect for an author's skillful distillation of a tragically murky confrontation of cultures."

"The Shack" is a personal favorite of mine.