This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is: Ten Books I’d Love to Read With My Book Club/If I Had A Book Club (or you could pick a specific kind of book club — like if you had a YA book club or an adult book club or a science fiction book club etc.) I don’t have a book club and honestly I go back and forth on trying to find one in my area. I love books, obviously, and sharing my thoughts on them, but I don’t generally do well in group discussions. I’m usually far to quiet to be heard when I try to speak up and often just don’t want to. So for this exercise, I’m going to pick books I feel would have good discussion in my fictional book club where everyone is polite and no one talks over other people and everyone has their turn to speak, if they so choose.
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Of course there would need to be a classic book and there would need to be an Austen book! This is well known and there are many themes and character progressions to discuss! And of course we could then watch the mini series with Colin Firth afterwards.
2. Definitely, Maybe in Love by Ophelia London. After reading Pride and Prejudice, we would then read a modern retelling of it! We could discuss how faithful to the source material it was, what was different, what we expect in retellings.
3. Truth, Lies, and the Single Woman: Dispelling 10 Common Myths by Allison K. Flexer. We would need a non-fiction, reflective book. My fictional book club is comprised of both the chronically single and some in various states of marriage. We would discuss the myths, how they relate to us, what we believe.
4. Dangerous Girls by Abigial Haas. We would definitely need some twisty, mind-screwing mystery that would have us discussing our suspects and our reactions to finding out the truth.
5. One Plus One by Jojo Moyes. As contemporary women, we would of course need some Contemporary Women’s Fiction. This book provides many POVs to discuss.
6. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. We would also need something with a controversial topic that will make us question our own moral beliefs.
7. The Best Man by Kristan Higgins. We would need a good old romance to swoon over and give us a break from the heartache of the previous book!
8. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. We would need a great YA series to fangirl over. This series has so many wonderful and complex characters to discuss and deconstruct! And love the crap out of!
9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. We need something with just beautiful writing.
10. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. We would each get to pick one of our all-time favorite books and make everyone else read it!
Would this be a book club you’d want to be part of? What books would you want to read in your perfect book club?
Always happy when I see Jojo Moyes on a Top Ten list. She’s fantastic. Great picks! 🙂
Thanks! I love her!
THE RAVEN BOYS! Yes! I’ve got Landline on my TTT too, but Attachments would also be great!
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Anything Rainbow Rowell would be perfect! And of course The Raven Boys is the answer pretty much every question!
I LOVE Attachments. My favorite book of Rainbow Rowell’s
It’s mine too! I need a re-read of it soon!
The Night Circus, The Raven Boys, Pride & Prejudice? Yes, yes & yes! I would totally have my book club buddies speak in a British accent too 😛 Great list Steph!
Thanks! And I like the British accent idea!
This looks like an awesome book club! I also appreciate watching the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice after reading it because, y’know, research. The Night Circus and Attachments would also be great fun to talk about! 🙂
Thanks! Colin Firth is always great motivation!
Your book club sounds like one I’d want to join. I honestly don’t think I’d have the confidence to join a real one. I’m too afraid I’d sound stupid compared to everyone else. You’ve got some interesting looking books on your list as well, so yes, definitely a good book club. Nice, quiet, polite people. Good books. Can’t ask for anymore. 🙂
Thanks! Yeah, I would definitely need nice, quiet, and polite people if I wanted to be able to enjoy it and not be an anxious wreck the whole time!
I added The Night Circus to my TTT post this week too!!
Here’s a link to my TTT for the week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2015/01/top-ten-tuesday-ten-books-id-love-to.html
It’s such a great book!
The Raven Boys made my list too this week. There is just so much complexity to each character. Pride and Prejudice is a fine choice for a classic too. I’d definitely be behind a BBC mini series binge afterward.
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I think Raven Boys really has a character (or characterS) for everybody to enjoy!
I just read The Raven Boys and I’m very keen on reading the sequels. Attachments is one of my favourite novels, so good! awesome picks 🙂
Thanks! Definitely keep reading the Raven Cycle! I’m so in love with those characters! And Attachments is one of my all time favorites as well!
P&P (well really anything Jane Austen) made my list too. I really enjoyed One Plus One, but I still need to read Me Before You. I almost put The Raven Boys on my list too!
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Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
I agree anything by Jane Austen would be a good choice!
I’ve never been a part of a book group either. I’m so shy it would probably be good for me. Raven Boys and Night Circus are on my I need to read this already list. I think I’d be a part of a fantasy book club, since that’s the only thing I read.
You should definitely read those books! And I probably won’t ever do a real book club either. Oh well!
That’s a great list of books. A few of them are in my TBR(Truth Kies and the Single Woman and Jojo Moyes books.
Thanks! And you should definitely read those books!
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