So 3 friends and I do a book club. We each take turns picking a book, the order is random for a selection of 4 books, and then the order resets (chosen by a spinning wheel).
It’s the job of the person picking 4th in the order to find a way to connect these books.
The 3 books we’ve read in this cycle are:
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
I’m seeing a theme of US based class systems, poverty, criticism of the government and social norms…
Into The Wild-privileged kid rejecting social norms.
Slaughterhouse Five-Billy Pilgrim is able to turn his delusions inspired by his PTSD into a success because he’s already wealthy.
Demon Copperhead-addresses poverty, foster system, and opioid epidemic directly (no spoilers I’m only halfway through)
We’ve had a sort of journalistic/biographical book, a satirical science fiction book, and a realistic fiction book.
So for my choice to wrap up this cycle I’m thinking something along the lines of historical non-fiction with a focus on socioeconomic classes.
Here are three ideas I have thus far, but I’m not sold on any of them. I’m curious if anyone has a better suggestion based on the background I’ve given.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
Thank you in advance!
by ClarkGleason