I am looking for a good suggestion for my book club! We have a limitation of 400 pages maximum, ideally less than 300 pages. The book should be thought provoking and easy to talk about for an hour, but relatively accessible to general audiences and ideally pretty entertaining.
The group is not very interested nonfiction, but other genres are good.
In the past, books like Piranesi, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and The City in Glass (Nghi Vo) did well with the group. Old Man’s War and The Left Hand of Darkness were less well-received.
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett!
Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke. This one is very philosophical and dives into themes that are great for discussion as most people will find different things in this book that are intriguing and thought provoking.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells.
The Tortoise’s Tale by Kendra Coulter. It is told from the perspective of a tortoise in captivity and how she perceives and interacts with the world/people/animals around her. It’s beautifully written and has lots of elements that could lead to really good discussion.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson Mcullers. I read it recently and enjoyed it quite a bit. It shares a lot of similar themes with To Kill a Mockingbird
Think: An introduction to philosophy.
Brit Bennett: the Vanishing Half
Mohsin Hamid: the Reluctant Fundamentalist
Perceval Everett: the Trees
Try:
The Intuitionist by Coulson Whitehead
My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
Lightning Rods by Helen Dewitt (this one might get contentious lmao)
The Dutch house by Ann Patchett
The house in the cerulean sea by T.J klune
The ballad of black Tom by Victor LaValle