 | Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.) by Joanne Harris
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.00 Fiction about food, family and secrets
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 | Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.99 Feel Good Fiction, because there should be at least one happy, feel good book that is just simply a good book in every book club's list.
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 | Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.99 A classic alternative to the newer Five QUarters, this book has magic realism as well, discusses mexican-spanish history and has a great recipe at the beginning of the chapter for adventerous book clubs to try!
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 | The Man Who Forgot How to Read: A Memoir by Howard Engel
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $1.18 Canadian Crime Novelist discusses what it was like to wake up and not be able to read. A non fiction that reads like fiction. a great story.
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 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $8.10 A non fiction that sounds light hearted and funny but also talks about some current issues surrounding our food sources. Choose this or the Howard Engel NF.
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 | The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: $7.94 / Used from: $3.08 Because every list should have a classic, and this is a great one
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 | To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy used from: $3.44 another classic that continues to be relavent. an alternative to the scarlet letter
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 | The Hour I First Believed: A Novel by Wally Lamb
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $0.58 Addresses some controversial topics and identity, family issues. Looks like a great read.
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 | One good story, that one: Stories by Thomas King
Buy used from: $1.38 Thomas King is a great canadian writer who can weave a fantastic story bringing forward issues of modern native canadians and native americans while still making it a great story. One of my favorite authors. And Green Grass, Running Water was just too long for a book club. :)Its available in canada?
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 | Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.01 Another Canadian fiction that addresses race and cultural issues.alternative for Thomas King book.
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 | The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
Buy used from: $14.99 Another canadian fiction, award winner, and long. But worth it. Alternative to other can. fic.
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 | Animal's People: A Novel by Indra Sinha
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.59 A beautiful story of India and some of its cultural and political issues. Very relevant for today.
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 | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.50 We read lots of the Islamic and muslim countries. But we don't always read about the continuing issues of the african world. This book brings much of that to light. Alternative to Animal's People.
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 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Reader by John Boyne
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $20.42 Because every book club list should include a teenage fiction. This one speaks a very universal message about genocide.
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 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $6.88 Every book club should include a teen fiction and this is a great one that I think every parent should read. very moving.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: $12.75 A little bit sci fi, a lot romance, and in the end a beautiful, simple story.
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 | The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.18 A good mystery, a good story. alternative to TTW
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 | The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.70 another "manly" option, and addresses religion, war, history, all in a long, but "I can't put it down" fiction. Alternative for The Road.
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 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Cultural issues post 9-11. Alternative for Animal's People.
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 | A Lineage of Grace (Christian Softcover Originals) by Francine Rivers
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $10.40 A highly recommended book for the christian book clubs or even those that want to discuss religion in the context of fiction.
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 | The Shack by William P. Young
Buy new: $6.00 / Used from: $1.87 Ridiculously popular and full of conversational bits.
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