Morning Book Group Recommendations for 2017

We Will Pick 10 Titles

Graphic Novel:

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast p.240 ISBN:9781608198061

Perseplois: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi p.160 ISBN:978037514573

Play:

Macbeth by William Shakespeare p.304  ISBN: 978-0743477109

Nonfiction:

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin p.192 ISBN:978-0763673680

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White p.105 ISBNH: 9780205309023

The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko p. 448 ISBN:978-1439159866

The Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys: The True Story by Dean King p. 464 ISBN:978-0316167079 

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert p.320 ISBN:978-1620409886

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler p. 576 ISBN:9780553277371

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald p. 288 ISBN:978-0802123411

Half the Sky: Turning Opression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn p.320 ISBN: 978-0307387097

The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming p.480 ISBN:978-0061139130

Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind p.384 ISBN:978-1484741238

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by John Krakauer  p.416 ISBN:  978-0804170567  (2 Recommendations)

No God but God by Reza Aslan p.384 ISBN:9780812982442

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick p. 336 ISBN:978-0385523912

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis p.320 ISBN:978-0804172486

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli p. 96 ISBN: 9780399184413

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff p.512 ISBN: 978-0316200608

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert Pirsig  p. 560 ISBN:9780060589462

The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman p.384 ISBN:9780393333060    

(Evening Book Group read this book in 2009)

Biography/Memoir:

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America by William Least Heat-Moon and William Least Heat Moon p.448 ISBN: 978-0316353298

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren p.400 ISBN:978-1250062253

Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Bow p.240 ISBN:978-0544228047

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann p.496 ISBN:978-0316247757

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor p. 336 978-0307594884

Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton p.224 ISBN: 978-0060737313

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham p.800 ISBN:978-0812979480

Classics:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck p.691 ISBN:9780140186390

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway p.48 ISBN: 978-1781396766

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie p.576 ISBN:9780812976717

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison p.352 ISBN:978-1400033423

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte p. 400 ISBN: 978-0007350810

Science Fiction:

The Martian by Andy Weir p.387 ISBN:9780553418026

Fiction:

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar p,384 ISBN:978-0316183307 (2 recommendations)

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie p.588 ISBN:9780307455925 . (3 Recommendations))

At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier p. 304 ISBN: 978-0525953005

The Book of Speculation: A Novel by Erika Swyler p. 384 ISBN:978-1250055637

Breaking Wild by Diane Les Becquets p.320 ISBN:9780425283783

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson p. 316 ISBN:9781416905868

Descent: A Novel by Tim Johnston p.400 ISBN:978-1616204778

                                                                                                                                  A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton p.304 ISBN:978-0143128250

Dollbaby: A Novel by Laura Lane McNeal p.352 ISBN:978-0143127499

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave p.432 ISBN:978-1501124372

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson p.272 ISBN:9780-89848919

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon p.131 ISBN:9780060777104                   (read by Evening Book Group in 2010)

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford p.301 ISBN:9780345505347

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson p.419 ISBN:978014751073

Ireland: A  Novel by Frank Delaney p. 576 ISBN: 978-0060563468

Its Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini p. 464 ISBN:978-0786851973

John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk p.432 ISBN:9780802121738

The Known World by Edward P. Jones p.432 ISBN:9780061159176

 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara p.832 ISBN:978-0804172707

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness p. 224 ISBN:978-0763660659

 A Single Thread by Marie Bostwick p.344 ISBN:978-1607513056

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson p.224 ISBN:9780312674397

Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen p.288 ISBN:9780812976892

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson p. 496 ISBN:978-0812993103

The Vacationers by Emma Straub p.320 ISBN:978-1594633881

Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel by Priya Parmar p. 384 ISBN:978-0804176392

We Never Asked for Wings: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh p. 336 ISBN:978-0553392333 

The Well-Tempered Heart  Jan-Philipp Sendker p. 200 ISBN:978-1590516409

White Teeth by Zadie Smith p.464 ISBN:978-0375703867

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson p.304 ISBN:9780142415573

Not Enough Copies in New Hampshire Library System:

Gun Fight: The Battle Overt the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart p.304 ISBN:978-0375758621

The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up by Cathy LaGrow and Cindy Coloma p.352 ISBN- 978-1496403278

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele p.256 ISBN:978-0393339727

                                          

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg p.480 ISBN:978-0670785971                    (3 recommendations)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum ISBN: 294 ISBN:978-0465083619

Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life by Roxana Robinson p. 679 ISBN: 978-0874519068

Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters p.320 ISBN: 978-0385340885

The Fisherman: A Novel by Chigozie Obioma p.304 ISBH:978-0316338356

The Honeymoon by Dinitia Smith p.432 ISBN:978-1590517789 (2 Recommendations)

Landfalls by Naomi J. Williams p.336 ISBN:978-0374183158

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell p.408 ISBN:9780449912553

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey p.432 ISBN:978-0316242851

Twelve Rooms with a View by Theresa Rebeck p.354 ISBN: 978-0007256334