I have been in the Bookies book club since August 2001. I love our group and through the years we have morphed from reviewing in restaurants, to home reviews with themed foods to the books, to dress up events that make me THRILLED to talk about my awesome book club any day … any time! 😀
What you will find here is a list of what I think were the best of the best book club reads. Some have ideas attached to them, food to serve, extras we did during the review. Not all of them do but I would be happy to share any ideas to go with a book you are reading for book club to jazz up the review a bit. I also, have included discussions posts surrounded by book club themes.
I love the little extras we put into the reviews. They have for us, strengthened out group and made up a book club of 16 strong that I adore!
The Making Of A Book Club
What Makes A Great Book Club Read?
How Does Your Book Club Choose It’s Books?
How to have a Book Exchange
Bookies Queen Event 2014
A Dress Made Out Of Books and a New Queen 2013!
Bookies Queen Event 2012
Bookies Queen Event 2011
Bookies Queen Event 2010
Bookies Queen Event 2009
Bookies Queen Event 2008
Crowning a Queen!
The Book Club Cook Book (looking for AWESOME books to review and food to go with them? This is the book you need!
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
A Tiger In The Kitchen a Memoir of Food and Family by Cheryl Lu-Lein Tan
Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff (and our very own host Cleopatra!)
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Descent by Tim Johnston w/ Discussion Questions
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Giants In The Earth by Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell w/discussion questions
Henry’s Sisters by Cathy Lamb
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In The Belly Of Jonah by Sandra Brannan
The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Language Of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens w/ discussion question
Book Journey 
Wow your book club sounds AMAZING… I wish I could find one like that near me 🙂
Thanks Michelle… if you cant find one… make one. That’s what I did. 😀
I loved ‘Sundays at Tiffany’s’ and ‘Olive Ketteridge’
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i recently read Birthmarked and just reviewed it on my blog and would love if you could check it out. i think you would like it.
I would love to – thank you for the invite 🙂
following up on budgetbooksandbeauty, I recently read Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi, and wrote a review (short, but nevertheless a review) over here: http://lustforstories.blogspot.ca/2012/07/shatter-me-by-tahereh-mafi.html
I’m wondering if I could get some feedback on my review so I know how I can do better, but if it’s not possible, then it’s alright; you probably have tons of other request to finish.
Thank you~
have you considered “The Way of the Bull” by Leo Buscaglia? How about “The Christmas Train” by David Baldacci? Let me know what you thinnk of them… Cheers!
The Forgotten Garden is my all-time favorite book. 🙂
Hi, Just found your website recently and just today saw your book club section. really cool. I started a book club 5 years ago in Sacramento. 2 years ago I moved to Seattle and the book club continued. I now fly back every other month to attend (my sister also lives in Sacramento ). we’ve read several of the same books as your club- Room, Moloka’i and Cutting for Stone. Loved them all and not the stuff I might have read in the past.
Here is our blog with food and stuff if you want to take a look. We have a Constellation of Vital Phenomena coming up soon so after reading your review, I wonder what our group will think. Keep writing! http://beehiveladiesbooks.blogspot.com/
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Thank you for putting this together! Love coming to my book club every month but we definitely need some new ideas. ‘Me Before You’ was heartbreaking!
This month we are reading The Last Mile by David Baldacci. I can’t find any questions to discuss. Any suggestions?
We just celebrated our 10th year as a BOOK CLUB. We have read some of the books you listed.
So many books, and so wonderful: Some of ours to name a few: “The Girl with Seven Names” by Hyeonseo Lee / “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Ampor Towles / “The Art Forger”: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro / “The Shoemaker’s Wife” by Adriana Trigiani / – “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman / “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah / “Calico Palace” by Gwen Bristow / “Gray Mountain” by John Grisham / “The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown