No matter that it takes forever for me to finish a book lately, I’m always adding to my list of books to read. Recently, a friend (thanks, Jamie! Shout out!) shared that she carries her notated book club list with her at all times in her bag so that any chance she has to visit a book store, she has her go-to list with her. Since sharing her list with me last month, I’ve pulled it out at least a half dozen times to share with others. Jamie’s book club list focuses mostly on modern literature but delves a bit into historical fiction, biography, and teen literature. It’s a great list, and I’m so excited that she’s letting me share it with you all.
- Our Lady of the Forest
- The Ladies’ Man (Silhouette Special Edition)
- Plain Truth
- The Secret Life of Bees: A Novel, The Tenth-Anniversary EditionThe Center of Everything : A Novel
- The Gift: A Novel
- The Life Before Her Eyes
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons (Ballantine Reader’s Circle)
- Eden Close
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Dover Thrift Editions)
- The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters: A Novel
- The Giver
- The Kite Runner
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People [movie tie-in]: A Memoir
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- The Dogs of Babel: A Novel
- Mrs. Kimble: A Novel (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
- The Power of One: A Novel
- Ursula, Under
- Sister of My Heart: A Novel
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
- In Cold Blood (Modern Library)
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (10th Anniverary Edition)
- Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
- Little Children: A Novel
- How to Be Lost: A Novel
- The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (Movie Tie-in Edition): A No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Novel (1)
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Tender Bar: A Memoir
- Water for Elephants: A Novel
- Charity Girl
- Suite Francaise
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter: A Novel
- The Spellman Files: A Novel
- The Namesake: A Novel
- The Birth of Venus: A Novel
- The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel
- Empire Falls
- The Road (Oprah’s Book Club)
- What the Dead Know: A Novel
- Enduring Love: A Novel
- Then We Came to the End: A Novel
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- American Wife: A Novel
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (P.S.)
- Revolutionary Road
- The Shack
- Little Bee: A Novel
- Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
- The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.)
- Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Movie Tie-In): A Novel
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time
- The Shadow of the Wind
- The Help Deluxe Edition
- Under the Dome: A Novel
- The Good Thief: A Novel
- Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
- This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
- The Lottery and Other Stories
- The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel
- An Object of Beauty: A Novel
- Cutting for Stone
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel
- The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
- Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
- A Reliable Wife
- Ten Little Indians
- Freedom: A Novel (Oprah’s Book Club)
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel (P.S.)
- Q
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- Roses
- Summerland: A Novel
- Girl in Translation
- Gone Girl: A Novel
- The Shoemaker’s Wife: A Novel
- The Imperfectionists: A Novel (Random House Reader’s Circle)
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Which have you read? Did you love them? Hate them? And what books are missing from Jamie’s list that totally belongs on a modern lit book club list?
