Some Great Recommendations From Our Book Club Members
Last month, in our newsletter, we asked members of our Book Club to recommend books that help them understand the world, or books that they use to escape from it. There's no shortage of reminders that we live in a charged political atmosphere, in the U.S. and around the world, and it affects everyone. It has affected how family members talk, or don’t talk, to one another. It has contributed to long lasting friendships being torn apart. Throughout history, we have turned to literature for knowledge and understanding. We are hoping that these book club recommendations can contribute, at least a little, to a better understanding of the modern world, or at least just a good read!
At the top of the list was The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. It follows several characters searching for love and looking for their place in the world. Perhaps book club members are trying to tell us something?
Here’s the full list of recommendations, in alphabetical order
- A Horse Walks into a Bar, by David Grossman
- Augustus, by John Williams
- Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
- Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
- Brodeck's Report, by Philippe Claudel
- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
- Crusoe of Lonesome Lake, by Leland Stowe
- Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep
- Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina García
- Ellis Island And Other Stories, by Mark Helprin
- Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
- Human Voices, by Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Mercy of a Rude Stream, by Henry Roth
- The Circle, by Dave Eggers
- The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
- The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
- The Iliad, by Homer
- The Memoirs of a Survivor, by Doris Lessing
- The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Old Wives’ Tale, by Arnold Bennett
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
- Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
- Tinkers, by Paul Harding
