My turn to pick a book. Book club is made up of women ranging from 30-65. Not an easily offended group but probably can’t hang with something that is too weird, but I like weird and am willing to push the envelope just a bit. Can’t be hard to follow. Do any of these seem ripe for a book club discussion?
All Fours by Miranda July
The Girls We Sent Away
Annie Bot
Pines by Blake Crouch
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Memory Collectors
Lexicon by Max Barry
by awksauce143
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I can’t speak for any of the options you are asking about, but in case you are looking for another choice to add- The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne. This was my BC’s last pick and we had such rich discussion afterwards. It’s a long book, discusses sexuality, can get intense, but what an epic story it tells. We are a book club made up of women ages 40-55, FWIW.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
i’m saying this as someone who deliberately seeks out perverse literary fiction featuring morally grey women: All Fours is weirded all the way out and the plot (imo) is entirely non-productive. It does discuss sexual liberation/identity as it relates to menopausal women quite a bit, which might be a draw for the mid-older age range in your group? but the explicit scenes can get jarringly odd lol
Savages by Shirley Conran covers the age range in your group.
Plot:
A group of rich executives and their wives are on a luxury trip to a remote island. The women are left stranded in the jungle, where they must adapt to survive.
I’ve read it three times.