1. The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
2. Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
3. The Goldfinch: A Novel - Donna Tartt
4. The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
5. And the Mountains Echoed: A Novel - Khaled Hosseini
6. The Light Between Oceans: A Novel - M.L. Stedman
7. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
8. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? - Maria Semple
9. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
10. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
With 2 on the rise:
We Are Water - Wally Lamb
Orange Is the New Black - Piper Kerman
Guess what? The VHOB Book Club is not reading any of these. Here are the authors/books that are lined up from June through October:
June 19 - Katie Hafner, Mother Daughter Me (memoir)
July 30 - Keith Raffel, A Fine and Dangerous Season (fiction, based on fact that JFK
audited classes at Stanford Business School in Fall 1940)
August 20 - Ellen Sussman, A Wedding in Provence (well-known local author/teacher)
September 19 - Jana McBurney-Lin, Blossoms and Bayonets (semi-biographical story
of a young Korean boy during the Japanese occupation of Korea during WWII)
October 28 - Shelly King, The Moment of Everything (debut novel)
The Book Thief was the BEST book I read last year!
ReplyDeleteIt blew me away!
I keep hearing how good it is. One of these days, I'm going to have to at least get that into my queue. From there, it's anybody's guess when it will hit the top of the stack. My TBR pile looks like its own library/bookstore!
ReplyDeleteMy TBR pile is dangerously high as well -- so many good books, so little time! Thanks for the reading suggestions.
ReplyDeleteYvonne, author of Pandemic
Speaking of TBR piles, I just added Pandemic to mine. When will I get to it, you ask? The answer is the same one that Meg Ryan gave Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. When a very young Sally is crying and says "I'm going to be 30," and Harry says when, she says "Some day!" That's how I feel about my TBR pile. Having said that, it will get a rapid rise up the pile since I "know" the author. I'll let you know when I start reading it.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I hope you enjoy the story -- someday. :)
ReplyDeleteYvonne