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. |