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Subject: Book club recommendations
Date Posted: 8/24/2011 7:45 PM ET
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Please does anyone have any non-fiction to recommend for lively book club discussions?

also fiction -we are trying to alternate.

we have a good mix of men and women so needs to be interesting for both.

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Date Posted: 8/31/2011 4:46 PM ET
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Hi Ronda,

I,too, am in a book club (or three). Here are a few that we really enjoyed:

Little Bee- Chris Cleave (fiction)

Still Alice -Lisa Genova (fiction)

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun- Peter Godwin (Memoir)

The Book Thief -Markus Zusak (fiction)

The Known World- Edward Jones (ficition)

Happy Reading! I am also interested in what you all have read. I am wracking my brain right now for suggestions when we all get together next month.

thanks

Tangela

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Date Posted: 8/10/2012 6:23 PM ET
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Have you thought about Unbroken by Laura Hillabrand. Not sure about the spelling of the last name.

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Date Posted: 8/18/2012 3:13 PM ET
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Left to Tell 

By - Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin  (Discovering God Amidst the Rwanda Holocaust)

My book club just read Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West   

By - Blaine Harden   

Just published this year - shocking story about current events!

 



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