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What we Raven's Tale 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 yearsnonfiction
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. Boyleaward-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
here are some recommendations from other indie booksellers across the nation
Away by Amy Bloom
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Deer Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant
Diversadero by Michael Ondaatje
In the Woods by Tana French
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher
ReservationBlues by Sherman Alexie
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
here are some older Sacramento Bee Book Club selections
The Prayer Room by Shanthi Sekaran for Novemebr 12, 2009
Jackson by Max Byrd
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Crime Wave by James Ellroy
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George
The Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith
Atticus by Ron Hansen
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Dreamer by Charles Johnson
Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Rocking the Babies by Linda Raymond
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
some of Oprah's Book Club books
2009
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
2007
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
2006
Night by Elie Wiesel
2005
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2003
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2002
Sula by Toni Morrison
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2001
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
2000
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
1999
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Jewel by Bret Lott
1998
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Paradise by Toni Morrison
1997
The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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