Annual Gathering of the Book Clubs
The sixth annual Bella Vista Library Gathering of the Book Clubs was held on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Members of all local book clubs were invited to come to the library to share with and meet other book clubs. After enjoying light refreshments, the attendees discussed books they had read and liked (or disliked) during the past year. Following, in no particular sequence, were the books mentioned and recommended by at least some of the attendees:
Unbroken: a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
The Sea Hunters by Clive Cussler
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
Off Keck Road: a Novella by Mona Simpson
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: An Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark
Seal
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Diana Vreeland
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Country Driving by Peter Hessler
Oracle Bone by Peter Hessler
Keeping Time by Stacy McGlynn
In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson