My book club (we meet every 4-6 weeks) just reached our 50th book and I thought I would list them here in case anyone is looking for ideas for their own book club, or just for general reading. I put my top five books in red and my bottom five (least favorite) in green. The most surprising book selection we all liked was Frankenstein. Here they are in the order we've read them:
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1. The Sun Also Rises |
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2. A Red Bird Christmas |
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3. The Time Traveler's Wife |
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4. Bel Canto |
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5. Left to Tell |
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6. God & the Almighty (Madeleine Albright) |
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7. Lolita |
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8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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9. A Girl Named Zippy |
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10. 3 Junes |
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11. Winterdance |
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12. a long way gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
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13. Water for Elephants |
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14. Absurdistan (unanimous worst book we read) |
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15. The Jane Austen Book Club |
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16. A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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17. The 13th Tale (a mystery) |
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18. Three Cups of Tea |
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19. Eat, Pray, Love |
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20. The Gathering |
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21. The Madonnas of Leningrad |
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22. The Alchemist |
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23. Frankenstein |
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24. The Widow's War |
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25. The Glass Castle |
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26. The Road to Eden's Ridge |
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27. Turtle Moon |
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28. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
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29. Same Kind of Different as Me |
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30. Lucy |
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31. Sing Them Home |
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32. The Forever War |
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33. The Help |
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34. The Hummingbird's Daughter |
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35. The History of Love |
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36. The Year of Fog |
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37. The Book Thief |
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38. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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39. Before You Know Kindness |
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40. The Beekeeper's Apprentice |
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41. These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (P.S.) |
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42. Kidnapped |
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43. Have a Little Faith |
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44. Cutting for Stone |
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45. The Shadow of the Wind |
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46. The Thirtymile Fire |
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47. The Crying Tree |
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48. Starvation Heights |
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49. 84, Charing Cross Road |
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50. When Heaven & Earth Changed Places |


