Any ideas for books for a reading group please?

The Kommandants Girl by Pam Jenoff. Itbuts fairly easy read but it is a powerful story about the choices people have to make in their lives. Ultimately, the question is what would you have done?

You could try looking at the threads titled "What are you reading at the moment" Part 1 & part 2. Lots of ideas there

Grandma H I've just devoured the new Joanne Harris "Peaches for Monsieur le Curé"; Joanne Harris returns with Vianne (from Chocolat) to Lansquenet. The second on the trilogy set ion Paris didn't work as well as Chocolat. but this one is a humdinger of a book. The issues raised (it is set in Ramadan 2010 just before the French government banned the headscarves) are many and it would make for a great discussion in a Book Group!

GrandmaH - I've recently read Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingslover - an unusual but lyrical book about fauna and flora and relationships!

Ariadne - Yes please.

Hi GrandmaH! I have a reading list, constantly updated, compiled by me and my English teacher friends. Full of good books - not all heavy. If you PM me with your e-mail address, I'll happily send it to you. And, of course, to anyone else who fancies it!

Maybe "Hardwick" even!

Many of my favourites already mentioned. We also liked Me Before You because of the Dignitas link, The Observations(Jane Harris) Dissolution (C J Sansom) A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)I note you say fiction only, but we also enjoyed biography (Bess of Haardwick), Oh, so many books - how long have you got???

A good read is a new book called 'Milligan and the Samurai Rebels' by Simon Alexander Collier. It's particularly good if you're interested in Japan and its history. It's a new publication but available from Amazon in paperback or on Kindle.

'Half of a Yellow Sun' by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian author) - wonderful book www.halfofayellowsun.com/content.php?page=reviews&n=3&f=2

Here are two that have gone down very well with our book group, though you might have read them already.

Room by Emma Donoghue;
The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas

Could you give us an idea of some others that your group have enjoyed?

Good reading!

Our reading group liked
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. This is set in Ethiopia and America.
If your group liked the Kite Runner they will love this.
This month we are reading The Help.

I hope this is useful.

Hello GrandmaH, you may have read some of these, but I think any of them would make good reading for a book club and are definitely among my favourite reads. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Conner, Poisinwood Bible - Barbarba Kingsolver, Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides, We Had It So Good - Linda Grant, The American Boy, Bleeding Heart Square - both by Andrew Taylor, Gillespie and I - Jane Harris, The Chimney Sweep's Boy - Barbara Vine. Everyone has their own idea what makes a good read and of course one man's meat etc. You might do this already, but I like to get up reviews on Amazon and Waterstones to see how books have been rated.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood. Good read and thought provoking.