Every month, one of the highlights of my social life is attending my neighborhood book club. I have been a part of one or more book clubs for over 20 years, and i have learned a few things about what makes a book club successful and how to get your book club talking. I love taking an evening off and congregating with my bookish friends to discuss literature. Use the list below to browse nprs best books of 2010 recommendations. It has one of the best opening lines in the history of fiction. Lets start off 2020 right with a selection of the best book club books. All the light we cannot see by anthony doerr, gone girl by gillian flynn, the help by kathryn stockett, the book thief by mar. If youve been struggling to find some good questions, we have ideas for that too. I have two cardinal rules in selecting the best book club books. Online shopping for book club picks from a great selection at books store. When shes not watching melodramatic television or reading magical realism, shes reading memoir, watching the great british bake off.
November 30, 2010 literary santa delivers his list of favorite fiction, nonfiction and poetry a box of the best books from 2010 that hed like to bring to your house on a snowy morning. From christmas to new years eve, and the many other holiday festivities before and after, these books are sure to be perfect fits for your december and january book club reads. As we say each december, trying to keep up with every book released in a year is like trying to drink from a firehose, especially since books tend to be far more nichey and audiencespecific than. Just choose one of these top 20 book club books for 2020. This list of book club books has nonfiction, chicklit, young adult and middle grade titles, history books and parenting books. Deaths of evelyn hardcastle by stuart turton, little fires everywhere by celeste ng, never let me go by kazuo i. Read up on some older recommendations for bonus ideas. Some of these are the best book club books from my own book clubs over the years and others are ones i wish my book club had read. Some of these were published in late 2019, while some arent released yet, so theyre split into sections by publication date.