Summer '12 Book Club

Each season I will list ten to fifteen books. You will pick one, read it, review it and snail mail the review to your partner. You should try to read the whole book for this swap, but like I said, you have plenty of choices. Remember that the point of this is to read books/genres/authors that you otherwise wouldn’t, even if you have to grit your teeth and bear it. You may pick a book you’ve read before, but that kind of defeats the object, right? But, yes, you can do this.

Here’s the list for Summer '12 :

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3. The Stand by Stephen King
4. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
6. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
7. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
8. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
9. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
10. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
11. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
12. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
13. Just Kids by Patti Smith
14. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
15. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Your review should be about one side of printer paper. You should include the following points and anything else you wish:

• Which book you picked and why.

• What the book is about – you can copy out the synopsis if you want.

• What you thought of the book (eg. Would you recommend this book? Would you read it again? Would you read more from that author? Or from the same genre? Is it the type of thing you like, or is it totally new for you? Why or why not would you read more like it? etc.)