The fiction book club I lead at One More Page Books kicks off the new year by talking about our favorite reads of the previous year. We call it a book club potluck: instead of food we bring book recommendations! This aren’t necessarily book club picks, but books we’ve read outside of book club that we’ve really enjoyed. Additionally, they don’t have to have been published recently, simply books we’ve read in the last year. You can check out our 2012 , 2013, 2014 and 2015 favorites.
Since it was the first day many people went back to work after the holidays, we only had about 5 (counting me) of our 10-12 usual attendance. Size doesn’t matter, however. We still came up with quite a list.
Fiction:
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
The Choices We Make by Karma Brown
The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelley Rowley
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye *
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (one of our book club picks, a favorite by all!)
Monsters: A Love Story by Liz Kay
A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams (another book club pick; we adore Williams’ writing!)
Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Non-Fiction:
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Books for Living by Will Schwalbe
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr
Additionally, I shared my lengthy list of favorites as well!
Does your book club do something similar?
