Books for 2008

Non-Fiction
A Modest Proposal - Jonathon Swift
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Singin' & Swingin' & Gettin' Merry Like Christmas - Maya Angelou
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
28 Stories of AIDS in Africa - Stephanie Nolen
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean

Classic (pre-2oth century)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Bostonians - Henry James
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Three Men In a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
Middlemarch - George Eliot

Sci-fi / Fantasy
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

Canadian Literature
Stanley Park - Timothy Taylor
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam
The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson
Green Grass, Running Water - Thomas King
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Rogues' Wedding - Terry Griggs

Children's Literature
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Le petit prince (a.k.a. The Little Prints) - Antoine Saint Exupery

Film Adaptation
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende

Prize Winner
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
the accidental - Ali Smith
The Polished Hoe - Austin Clarke
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Ironweed - William J Kennedy
A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews

20th / 21st Century Literature
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Diary of a Bad Year - J M Coetzee
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
The Lamb - Christopher Moore
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney

Book Selection for 2008

The first book club meeting of 2008 is scheduled for Sunday January 20 at 4pm, at my place. This meeting will be the book selection meeting. We will be choosing books from each of the following eight categories. All members (old and new) are invited to recommend one book for each category. We will then vote to decide which books we will read.

Non-fiction
Classic novel (pre-20th Century)
Canadian Literature
Sci-fi / Fantasy
Children's Literature
Film Adaptation (a novel that has been made into a movie)
Prize Winner (a novel that has won a major literary prize)
20th Century Literature

We have moved the meeting time to Sunday late afternoons to accommodate people's schedules better. We have also decided to hold meetings every six weeks rather than every four. This will hopefully provide people with more time to read the books so that our discussions can be more inclusive. See you on the 20th!