The Book Club Bible

The Definitive Guide That Every Book Club Member Needs

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• Publisher: Michael O'Mara
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781843177616
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Writing & Presentation Skills
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

With a foreword by Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Book Club Bible is the essential guide to the best book club reads. Every book-club member has felt the pressure to pick out a new title for the whole group to read and enjoy. Wouldn't it be great if there was a book that helped you to make that all-important decision and maintain your place of respect in the book club?Containing a diverse selection of books to choose from, the guide explains why titles are book-club worthy, and includes interesting discussion points and facts, and potential partner books. From chart-toppers to old favourites, every literary taste is catered for and you'll be sure to make an informed and popular choice. Above all, "The Book Club Bible" suggests some damn good reads.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editors’ Notes
• Introduction: A Book Club Member Speaks
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
• Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• Wise Children by Angela Carter
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville
• Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
• Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
• The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
• This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Girls by Lori Lansens
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• The Pact by Jodi Picoult
• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
• Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
• Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Colour by Rose Tremain
• The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
• Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trollope
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Acknowledgements