Book Movement's Top 100 Club Picks

1. Room: A Novel

4.5 Stars (42 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 40 of 42 members.
BookMovement Member Pick of the Year for 2010 "Emma Donoghue's ROOM is the most amazing book I've read in a long time. Pick it up -- you'll be shaken and stirred."--Jennifer Weiner Author of...

2. Little Bee: A Novel

3.5 Stars (136 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 119 of 136 members.
WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK.It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.Nevertheless you need to know something so we will just say this:It is extremely funny but...

3. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

4.5 Stars (111 Reviews)
Informative, Romantic, Beautiful
Recommended to book clubs by 108 of 109 members.
'Sentimental heartfelt?.the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful...

4. The Help

4.5 Stars (663 Reviews)
Insightful, Inspiring, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 660 of 661 members.
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree but it is 1962 Mississippi and her mother will...

5. Sarah's Key

4.5 Stars (293 Reviews)
Informative, Dramatic, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 280 of 290 members.
A haunting novel and NYT best-selling phenomenon that bookclubs nationwide can t stop talking about and can t forget Paris July 1942: Before ten year-old Sarah is arrested in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup...

6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

4.5 Stars (24 Reviews)
Informative, Interesting, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 22 of 24 members.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became...

7. The Book Thief

4.5 Stars (141 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Brilliant
Recommended to book clubs by 90 of 93 members.
It s just a small story really about among other things: a girl some words an accordionist some fanatical Germans a Jewish fist-fighter and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in...

8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

4.0 Stars (246 Reviews)
Dramatic, Adventurous, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 210 of 243 members.
An international publishing sensation Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery family saga love story and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly...

9. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

4.5 Stars (4 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Inspiring
Recommended to book clubs by 4 of 4 members.
On a May afternoon in 1943 an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil gasoline and blood. Then on the ocean surface...

10. The Art of Racing in the Rain

4.0 Stars (70 Reviews)
Insightful, Inspiring, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 65 of 69 members.

11. Cutting for Stone: A novel

4.5 Stars (61 Reviews)
Interesting, Informative, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 56 of 61 members.
A winner. . . . Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters. . . . Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist. USA Today An epic novel that spans continents and generations Cutting...

12. Moloka'i

4.5 Stars (69 Reviews)
Informative, Inspiring, Beautiful
Recommended to book clubs by 36 of 38 members.
This richly imagined novel set in Hawai'i more than a century ago is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.Rachel...

13. The Glass Castle : A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))

4.5 Stars (221 Reviews)
Dramatic, Interesting, Inspiring
Recommended to book clubs by 101 of 102 members.
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning they lived like nomads...

14. A Reliable Wife

3.0 Stars (101 Reviews)
Dark, Dramatic, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 71 of 101 members.
Rural Wisconsin 1909. In the bitter cold Ralph Truitt a successful businessman stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife."...

15. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel

4.5 Stars (12 Reviews)
Optimistic, Beautiful, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 11 of 12 members.
Unabridged CDs 8 CDs 10 hours Read by TBA Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor heart and feminine wisdom.

16. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel

4.5 Stars (2 Reviews)
Optimistic, Romantic, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 2 of 2 members.
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills thatched cottages and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar...

17. The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

4.5 Stars (64 Reviews)
Dramatic, Interesting, Adventurous
Recommended to book clubs by 64 of 64 members.
From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial...

18. Water for Elephants: A Novel

4.5 Stars (443 Reviews)
Adventurous, Interesting, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 130 of 139 members.
With its spotlight on elephants Gruen's romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel Riding Lessons and Flying Changes but without the mass appeal that horses...

19. House Rules: A Novel

3.5 Stars (15 Reviews)
Insightful, Informative, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 13 of 15 members.
The astonishing new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal who is blisteringly...

20. The Lacuna: A Novel

3.5 Stars (14 Reviews)
Slow, Boring, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 8 of 14 members.

21. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time

3.5 Stars (146 Reviews)
Inspiring, Informative, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 53 of 68 members.
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous remote and anti- American reaches of Asia In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to...

22. Letter to My Daughter: A Novel

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A fight ended by a slap sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother Laura is left to fret and worry--and remember. Wracked with guilt as she...

23. Year of Wonders

4.5 Stars (40 Reviews)
Dramatic, Interesting, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 24 of 24 members.
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the...

24. Still Alice

4.5 Stars (66 Reviews)
Insightful, Informative, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 64 of 64 members.
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease written by first-time author Lisa Genova who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from...

25. Freedom: A Novel

2.5 Stars (14 Reviews)
Slow, Insightful, Unconvincing
Recommended to book clubs by 4 of 14 members.
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul the gentrifiers the hands-on parents the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor who could tell...

26. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

2.5 Stars (13 Reviews)
Boring, Fun, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 6 of 13 members.
'It is rare that I literally laugh out loud while I'm reading but Janzen's voice'singular deadpan sharp-witted and honest'slayed me.' ?Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat Pray LoveNot long after Rhoda...

27. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

2.5 Stars (148 Reviews)
Boring, Inspiring, Slow
Recommended to book clubs by 45 of 77 members.
This beautifully written heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American...

28. The Lotus Eaters. Tatjana Soli

3.0 Stars (2 Reviews)
Slow, Adventurous
Recommended to book clubs by 2 of 2 members.

29. Winter Garden

4.5 Stars (7 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Romantic
Recommended to book clubs by 7 of 7 members.
Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful heartbreaking novel that illuminates the...

30. The Hunger Games

4.5 Stars (69 Reviews)
Adventurous, Dramatic, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 66 of 69 members.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by...

31. Tinkers

3.5 Stars (3 Reviews)
Beautiful, Insightful, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 3 of 3 members.

32. Cleopatra: A Life

3.0 Stars (2 Reviews)
Difficult, Informative, Inspiring
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 2 members.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx garnets and gold but was...

33. Look Again

3.5 Stars (39 Reviews)
Dramatic, Interesting, Adventurous
Recommended to book clubs by 32 of 39 members.
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again and her heart stops--the child in the...

34. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel

4.5 Stars (17 Reviews)
Fun, Inspiring, Optimistic
Recommended to book clubs by 17 of 17 members.
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor heart and feminine wisdom Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years she has been the caretaker of her...

35. In the Time of the Butterflies

3.5 Stars (6 Reviews)
Inspiring, Interesting, Life Changing
Recommended to book clubs by 3 of 3 members.
They were the four Mirabal sisters symbols of defiant hope in a country shadowed by dictatorship and despair. They sacrificed their safe and comfortable lives in the name of freedom. Their codename in...

36. A Secret Kept

2.5 Stars (10 Reviews)
Boring, Unconvincing, Gloomy
Recommended to book clubs by 2 of 10 members.
This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sarah's Key plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change...

37. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

4.5 Stars (193 Reviews)
Dramatic, Interesting, Dark
Recommended to book clubs by 89 of 94 members.
When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past what she confronted was her destiny.All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories...

38. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

4.5 Stars (201 Reviews)
Informative, Interesting, Fun
Recommended to book clubs by 184 of 194 members.
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during...

39. Shanghai Girls: A Novel

4.0 Stars (29 Reviews)
Informative, Dramatic, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 27 of 29 members.
In 1937 Shanghai?the Paris of Asia?twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful modern and carefree?until the day their father tells...

40. The Confession: A Novel

3.5 Stars (3 Reviews)
Dramatic, Informative, Gloomy
Recommended to book clubs by 3 of 3 members.
An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn?t understand how the police and prosecutors...

41. Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

4.5 Stars (47 Reviews)
Inspiring, Insightful, Life Changing
Recommended to book clubs by 33 of 34 members.
Meet Denver a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped hopping a train to wander homeless for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas Texas. No longer...

42. The Corrections

2.5 Stars (7 Reviews)
Dark, Gloomy, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 2 of 5 members.
A comic tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes Franzen's third novel brings an old-time America into wild collision with the era of home surveillance and New Economy...

43. The Monster of Florence

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44. One Day (Vintage Contemporaries Original)

2.5 Stars (19 Reviews)
Interesting, Romantic, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 7 of 19 members.
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day after college graduation they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together they cannot...

45. Decision Points

4.0 Stars (1 Reviews)
Insightful, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members.
In this candid and gripping account President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.George W. Bush served as president of the United States during...

46. Life of Pi

3.5 Stars (48 Reviews)
Interesting, Adventurous, Inspiring
Recommended to book clubs by 17 of 21 members.
This brilliant novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale " as Pi the son of a zookeeper is marooned aboard...

47. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

3.5 Stars (34 Reviews)
Insightful, Informative, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 8 of 9 members.
Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery a contemporary coming-of-age story and a fascinating excursion into...

48. American Wife: A Novel

3.5 Stars (14 Reviews)
Interesting, Fun, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 7 of 7 members.

49. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

not yet rated (0 Reviews)

An awe-inspiring often hilarious and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way. All decent parents...

50. Memoirs of a Geisha

4.5 Stars (33 Reviews)
Dramatic, Beautiful, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 9 of 9 members.
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover this brilliant debut novel offers with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha....

51. Night (Oprah's Book Club)

4.5 Stars (9 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Dark
Recommended to book clubs by 2 of 2 members.
A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel s masterpiece a candid horrific and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps....

52. The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel

4.0 Stars (2 Reviews)
Insightful, Interesting, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 2 of 2 members.
It is the middle of the twentieth century and in a home economics program at a prominent university real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these...

53. Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage

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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial...

54. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

5.0 Stars (1 Reviews)
Life Changing, Inspiring, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members.
What to eat what not to eat and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense...

55. Best Friends Forever: A Novel

2.5 Stars (10 Reviews)
Fun, Slow, Unconvincing
Recommended to book clubs by 5 of 10 members.
Some bonds can never be broken...Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the...

56. The March: A Novel

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE PEN FAULKNER AWARDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER E. L. Doctorow is always astonishing. . . . In The March he dreams himself backward from The...

57. One Second After

4.0 Stars (1 Reviews)
Scary, Graphic, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members.
New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina...

58. A Thousand Splendid Suns

4.5 Stars (18 Reviews)
Informative, Dramatic, Insightful
Recommended to book clubs by 15 of 15 members.
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful riveting and haunting novel that confirms his place...

59. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

2.5 Stars (7 Reviews)
Pointless, Dark, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 3 of 7 members.
Audrey Niffenegger's spectacularly compelling second novel opens with a letter that alters the fate of every character. Julia and Valentina Poole are semi-normal American twenty-year-olds with seemingly...

60. Standing in the Rainbow (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

3.5 Stars (3 Reviews)
Interesting, Informative, Slow
Recommended to book clubs by 3 of 3 members.
Good news! Fannie s back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.Along with Neighbor Dorothy the lady with the smile in her voice whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully...

61. Mathilda Savitch

2.5 Stars (2 Reviews)
Interesting, Insightful, Slow
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 2 members.
A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a young girl trying to find out the truth behind her sisters death I have a sister who died. Did I tell you this already? I did but you dont remember you...

62. Nanny Returns: A Novel

2.0 Stars (1 Reviews)
Confusing, Dramatic
More than four million readers fell in love with Nan the smart spirited and sympathetic heroine of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries. After living abroad for twelve years Nan and her...

63. And Then There Was One

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One is the loneliest number.Nine years ago Katie and Scott Monroe were blessed beyond their wildest dreams with identical triplets Sammie Alex and Jackie. Three beautiful daughters and two adoring...

64. The Shadow of the Wind

4.5 Stars (58 Reviews)
Adventurous, Dramatic, Brilliant
Recommended to book clubs by 37 of 38 members.
"One gorgeous read." Stephen King Barcelona 1945 A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary...

65. Nocturne

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When Nicole Whitcomb's car runs off a Colorado mountain road during a blinding snowstorm she is saved from death by a handsome fascinating and enigmatic stranger.Snowbound with him for days in his beautiful...

66. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

4.0 Stars (120 Reviews)
Adventurous, Interesting, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 50 of 53 members.
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who under the auspices of the U.S. government travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the...

67. Those Who Save Us

4.5 Stars (28 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 20 of 20 members.
For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter Trudy was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and...

68. The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel

4.0 Stars (6 Reviews)
Insightful, Fun, Boring
Recommended to book clubs by 5 of 6 members.
"A serious contender for Great American Novel status"--Publishers Weekly A brilliantly crafted mini-epic that is at turns hilarious terrifying and heartbreaking . . . Cinematic . . . A potential...

69. South of Broad

3.5 Stars (27 Reviews)
Dramatic, Interesting, Dark
Recommended to book clubs by 22 of 27 members.
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns with a big sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.Against the sumptuous backdrop...

70. Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

3.5 Stars (19 Reviews)
Interesting, Brilliant, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 16 of 19 members.
2009 National Book Award Winner In the dawning light of a late-summer morning the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974 and a mysterious...

71. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

4.0 Stars (81 Reviews)
Fun, Interesting, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 46 of 48 members.
From her sensational sleeper hit "Patty Jane's House of Curl" to her heartwarming novel "Welcome to the Great Mysterious " Landvik has won the hearts of readers everywhere. Now she...

72. Pope Joan: A Novel

4.5 Stars (28 Reviews)
Dramatic, Informative, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 18 of 19 members.
"Love sex violence duplicity and long-buried secrets. She is the legend that will not die..." For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die--Pope...

73. The Red Tent

4.0 Stars (24 Reviews)
Interesting, Dramatic, Beautiful
Recommended to book clubs by 19 of 19 members.
"Diamant vividly conjures up the ancient world of caravans farmers midwives slaves and artisans . . . her Dinah is a compelling narrator that has timeless resonance".--Merle Rubin "Christian...

74. Matched

4.0 Stars (1 Reviews)
Adventurous, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members.
SOCIETY MATCHED THEM BUT LOVE SET THEM FREE. In the Society Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It s hardly any price to pay for a long...

75. The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

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In 1936 Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London...

76. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel

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Amos Mississippi is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott Silas'...

77. Peace Like a River

3.5 Stars (70 Reviews)
Insightful, Slow, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 8 of 14 members.
Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by Time and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers national bestseller Peace Like a River captured the hearts of a nation...

78. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : A Novel

4.5 Stars (105 Reviews)
Beautiful, Informative, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 38 of 39 members.
Lily is haunted by memories of who she once was and of a person long gone who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower and asks the gods for forgiveness.In...

79. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

3.5 Stars (41 Reviews)
Insightful, Difficult, Beautiful
Recommended to book clubs by 28 of 40 members.
"Ren e Michel is the dumpy nondescript 54-year-old concierge of a small and exclusive Paris apartment building.... "Paloma Josse also lives in the building. Acutely intelligent introspective...

80. The Alchemist (Plus)

3.5 Stars (42 Reviews)
Inspiring, Insightful, Boring
Recommended to book clubs by 10 of 17 members.
Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world and this tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction from the author will only increase that following. This story...

81. Out Stealing Horses: A Novel

3.5 Stars (14 Reviews)
Interesting, Beautiful, Confusing
Recommended to book clubs by 6 of 9 members.
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July.Trond...

82. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

3.0 Stars (43 Reviews)
Interesting, Dark, Confusing
Recommended to book clubs by 15 of 21 members.
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis the mysterious witch? Where did she come...

83. The Other Boleyn Girl

4.5 Stars (74 Reviews)
Interesting, Epic, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 9 of 9 members.
Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king Mary falls in love...

84. The History of Love: A Novel

3.5 Stars (21 Reviews)
Confusing, Interesting, Beautiful
Recommended to book clubs by 5 of 7 members.
The illuminating national bestseller: "Vertiginously exciting vibrantly imagined . Krauss is a prodigious talent." Janet Maslin New York TimesA long-lost book reappears mysteriously connecting...

85. Outlander

3.5 Stars (18 Reviews)
Adventurous, Romantic, Fun
Recommended to book clubs by 9 of 12 members.
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century and a lover in another...In 1945 Claire Randall a former combat nurse is back from the war and reunited with her husband on...

86. The Samurai's Garden : A Novel

4.0 Stars (9 Reviews)
Informative, Insightful, Beautiful
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members.
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter...

87. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage)

4.5 Stars (28 Reviews)
Dramatic, Adventurous, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 27 of 28 members.
Part blistering espionage thriller part riveting police procedural and part piercing expos on social injustice The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist...

88. The Time Traveler's Wife

3.5 Stars (147 Reviews)
Romantic, Interesting, Confusing
Recommended to book clubs by 61 of 78 members.
Audrey Niffenegger s innovative debut The Time Traveler s Wife is the story of Clare a beautiful art student and Henry an adventuresome librarian who have known each other since Clare was six and...

89. The Red Tent

4.0 Stars (35 Reviews)
Interesting, Beautiful, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 7 of 7 members.
"Diamant vividly conjures up the ancient world of caravans farmers midwives slaves and artisans . . . her Dinah is a compelling narrator that has timeless resonance".--Merle Rubin "Christian...

90. Remember Me?

3.5 Stars (14 Reviews)
Fun, Brilliant, Fantastic
Recommended to book clubs by 5 of 5 members.
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans Sophie Kinsella author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby returns with an irresistible...

91. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

4.5 Stars (11 Reviews)
Dramatic, Brilliant, Adventurous
Recommended to book clubs by 11 of 11 members.
Lisbeth Salander?the heart of Larsson's two previous novels?is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she's...

92. The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)

3.5 Stars (7 Reviews)
Interesting, Dramatic, Graphic
Recommended to book clubs by 4 of 4 members.
In this multi-award-winning bestselling novel Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new...

93. My Sister's Keeper : A Novel

4.0 Stars (111 Reviews)
Dramatic, Insightful, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 31 of 31 members.
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by...

94. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

3.5 Stars (72 Reviews)
Interesting, Informative, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 31 of 37 members.
In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and its devious creators. A blend of "Ragtime"...

95. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

4.0 Stars (2 Reviews)
Dark, Insightful, Informative
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members.
The bestselling landmark work of undercover reportage now updatedAcclaimed as an instant classic upon publication Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom...

96. Redeeming Love

4.5 Stars (19 Reviews)
Romantic, Life Changing, Beautiful
Recommended to book clubs by 13 of 16 members.
Can God's Love Save Anyone? Bestselling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The...

97. A Land Remembered

5.0 Stars (4 Reviews)
Informative, Epic, Dramatic
Recommended to book clubs by 4 of 4 members.

98. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

3.5 Stars (13 Reviews)
Graphic, Dark, Interesting
Recommended to book clubs by 10 of 13 members.

99. The Power of One

4.5 Stars (4 Reviews)
Adventurous, Optimistic, Inspiring
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members.
In 1939 hatred took root in South Africa where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language English. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong color...

100. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

3.5 Stars (19 Reviews)
Insightful, Dramatic, Brilliant
Recommended to book clubs by 10 of 12 members.
The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book including author interviews recommended reading...