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As a bookseller I like to keep up-to-date on what titles have appealed to Book Clubs .  I recently found this interesting list.  I heartily agree with most of the selections.  Feel free to share your book club's favorites with the Book Mouse and we'll post them on the web site in the future.  Thanks.  The Book Mouse e-mail is bookmouse@sbcglobal.net.

Top Ten!

Reading Group Choices polled its on-line readers to ask for their favorite titles that resulted in the liveliest discussions in 2007. 

In order of popularity, the TOP 10 DISCUSSIBLE BOOKS OF 2007 were:

 

# 1: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

# 2: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

# 3: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

# 4: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

# 5: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

# 6: TIE: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

# 6: TIE: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

# 7: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

# 8: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

# 9: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

#10: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

 

While these titles were the ten most popular among reading groups, many other choices produced lively discussions for lots of you, among them Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross, Diana Lively Is Falling Down by Sheila Curran, Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks, The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean, March by Geraldine Brooks, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik, One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Atonement by Ian McEwan, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, and The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar.

 

If you have some recommendations for reading groups, please send your suggestions to: bookmouse@sbcglobal.net.