 What we 24books.org types think would make great book club selections.
Here are some titles that we feel would make good selections for book club.
fiction
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer & Annie Barrows
Run by Ann Patchett - great fiction that both Vicky and I loved
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Vicky says that this book lead to one of the best conversations ever at any of our former store book clubs.
Saturday by Ian McEwen - another wonderful novel
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III - a special novel that displays two different cultures coming straight at each other
Interpreter of Malidies by Jhumpa Lahiri - one of the better collections of short stories in years nonfiction
Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto - a California farmer's story of history and a good peach
The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food both by Michael Pollan - two fine works that look at food, our culture, the economy, and our quality of life in the 21st century
Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson - the first real political contest
 some of the local Placerville book clubs were reading the following books
Blindness by Jose Saramago - Raven's Tale Book Club
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Exception by Christian Jungersen - RTBC
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - RTBC
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman - RTBC
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen - RTBC
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski - Oprah's Book Club
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin - RTBC
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin - Sacramento Bee Book Club
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
The Wild Trees by Tichard Preston
here are some selections from past book clubs in Woodland fiction
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
The Portrait by Iain Pears
Vindication by Frances Sherwood
World’s End by T.C. Boyle award-winning novels
Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (Booker Prize)
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer Prize)
The Known World - Edward P. Jones (Pulitzer Prize & National Book Critics Circle)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Booker Prize)
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (Pulitzer Prize)
Waiting - Ha Jin (PEN/Faulkner & National Book) some selections from our old & infamous Village Idiot's Book Club
Dreams of My Russian Summer by Andrei Makine
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
To the Lighthouse by Viginia Woolf
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Santa Evita by Tomas E. Martinez
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Paradise by Toni Morrison
some of Oprah's Book Club books
5/24/11 - As The Oprah Winfrey Show ends its 25-year run on Wednesday, its host says Oprah's Book Club will follow her to her fledgling
cable network, OWN. Without offering details, she vows, "I'm going to try to develop a show for books and authors." 2010
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (announced 9/17/10)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (12/6/10)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (9/17/10) 2009
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan (9/18/09)
2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (9/19/08)
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (1/30/08)
2007
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (11/14/07)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (10/5/07)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (6/5/07)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (3/28/07)
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier (1/26/07)
2006
Night by Elie Wiesel (1/16/06)
2005
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (9/22/05)
Light in August by William Faulkner (6/3/05)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (6/3/05)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (6/3/05)
2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (12/4/04)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (5/31/04)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (4/21/04)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1/20/04)
2003
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (9/29/03)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (6/18/03)
2002
Sula by Toni Morrison (4/5/02)
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (1/24/02)
2001
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (11/30/01)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (9/24/01)
Cane River by Lalita Tademy (6/20/01)
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir (5/16/01)
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio (3/8/01)
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (1/24/01)
2000
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (11/16/00)
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz (9/27/00)
Open House by Elizabeth Berg (8/23/00)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (6/23/00)
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (5/26/00)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (4/27/00)
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell (3/28/00)
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (2/17/00)
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan (1/18/00)
1999
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton (12/3/99)
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay (11/10/99)
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke (10/14/99)
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy (9/9/99)
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes (6/15/99)
White Oleander by Janet Fitch (5/6/99)
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (3/31/99)
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (2/26/99)
Jewel by Bret Lott (1/19/99)
1998
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (12/7/98)
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (10/20/98)
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (9/25/98)
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (6/18/98)
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (5/22/98)
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen (4/9/98)
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman (3/6/98)
Paradise by Toni Morrison (1/16/98)
1997
The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby (12/8/97)
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby (12/897)
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby (12/8/97)
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons (10/27/97)
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons (10/27/97)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (9/22/97)
Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris (6/18/97)
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (5/9/97)
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds (4/8/97)
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (2/28/97)
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (1/22/97)
1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (11/18/96)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (10/18/96)
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard (9/17/96)
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