FIRST MONDAY MORNING OF THE MONTH BOOK CLUB
Suggestions from the October 3, 2011 Gathering
Fiction:
Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin Series: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (1992), Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (1993,) Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (1994), Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (1995), Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (1996), Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (1997), Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death (1998), Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (1999), Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (1999), Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (2000), Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (2001), Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (2002), Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate (2003), Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House (2003), The Deadly Dance (2004), Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon (2005) Love, Lies and Liquor (2006), Kissing Christmas Goodbye (2007), Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison (2008), There Goes The Bride (2009), Busy Body (2010), As the Pig Turns (2011)
Benioff, David - City of Thieves
Bohjalian, Christopher - Midwives; Skeletons at the Feast
Bradley, Alan C. - Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag; A Red Herring Without Mustard; I Am Half Sick of Shadows
Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone; The Woman in White
Dickens, Charles – Martin Chuzzlewit
Forster, E.M. - Howard’s End
Maugham, W. Somerset – The Moon and Sixpence, The Razor’s Edge
Mawer, Simon - The Glass Room
Mitford, Nancy - Love in a Cold Climate
Penny, Louise - 6 titles, in must read order, from the Three Pine Mystery Series: Still Life, A Fatal Grace; The Cruelest Month; A Rule Against Murder; The Brutal Telling; Bury Your Dead
Ridpath, Michael - Where the Shadows Lie
Rosnay, Tatiana de – Sarah’s Key
Spiotta, Dana - Stone Arabia
Simonson, Helen - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair: a Novel Without a Hero
Tolkien, J.R.R. - Lord of the Rings Series: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King
Trollope, Anthony – Can You Forgive Her?; Eustace Diamonds
Nonfiction:
323.1196/TAU - The Last Train North by Clifton L. Taulbert
326.26/WIL - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
331.40951/CHA - Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie Chang
915.138/HES - River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
920/MIT - The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley
940.5485/CON - A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS by Jennet Conant
943.086/ LAR - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
944.36/ MCC - The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
951.242/MAH - The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China by Rosemary Mahoney
These recommendations are available in the OSL System:
As always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Julia Child
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
The Druggist of Auschwitz: A Documentary Novel by Dieter Schlesak
Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
Oracle Bones: A Journey between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler
Recommended Websites:
Barbara Pym Society - http://www.barbara-pym.org/
A great one for Mystery Readers - http://www.stopyourekillingme.com