Book Club Suggestions

Are you looking for a great book to read? How about one that we've read that you forgot the name? You asked for it- here it is!

Ventana Book Club List of Suggested Reads
(Thru December 2010)

(Any listed books are recommendations by members of our book club. While we've tried to select books that are clean, personal preferences vary and memories may be faulty. Please carefully consider any book on this list before reading, as you would with any other recommendation.)

*“bold” denotes a book we’ve read and discussed

Classic
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Self-Help
Strangling your husband is not an option by Merillee Browne Boyack
How to make friends & influence people by Dale Carnegie
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (?)
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Fiction/Historical Fiction
Papa married a Mormon by Fitzgerald
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Gurnsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
These is my Words by Nancy E. Turner
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Princess Bride by William Goldman
Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer
http://www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk/paths-of-glory.htm
The Poison Wood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Sci-fi/Fantasy
Wings by April Lynn Pike
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkien
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Movie Books
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Soloist by Steve Lopez
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy,
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale, Jr.

Academic/non-fiction/biography
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers - Muslim family amidst Hurricane Katrina destruction
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
My life in France by Julia Child
Driven- biography of Larry H. Miller
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell- on first impressions
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Man’s search for Meaning by Victor Frank
Even Silence has an end by Ingrid Betancourt-Columbian hostages in jungle
Nurture shock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Queen Noor- Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hal & Denver Moore