Algonquin Book Club
Algonquin Book Club
Alternate Reading List 2012: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman Peony in Love, by Lisa See A Spot of Bother, by Mark Haddon Secret Daughter, by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Alone in the Classroom, by Elizabeth Hay Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt People of the Book, by G. Brooks Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, A robot names Scorch, and what it takes to win, by Judy Dutton Clara Callen by Richard Wright 2011: Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet by Carol Off The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant (2005, non-fiction) The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas 2010:
This list is comprised of books that were suggested by members, but were not chosen as our main selections.
Keep these in mind for extra reading as well as possibilties for next round.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Burrows
The World is Blue, by Sylvia Earle
Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
Middlesex, by Jeannette Walls
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Micheals
Remembering the Bones, by Frances Itani
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold
Without Grace, by Carol Hoenig
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, by Alexander McCall Smith