What Will Be The Next Book After The Alchemist?

[anthony]

I figure now is an excellent time to begin discussing further books, people thinking about it, as we no longer have time constraints with the first two books chosen, and for those participating in the trilogy... also chosen.

What will be further books for the club to read?

I don't think we need to limit suggestions any more, as the randomizer will simply pick 10 for us to vote upon. If someone gets several of their suggestions in, then so be it, as its completely randomly generated.

 

[catjudo]

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Mercy by Jodi Picoult

 

[KP the nut]

The Brave by Nicholas Evans

 

[anthony]

Ohhhhh.... I like this one: Dead Link Removed

Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she’s been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents’ summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene’s Harbor, Michigan. Kate’s plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory.

Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and Kate is just new enough in town that she can insert herself into Culhane’s business and snoop around for him. If Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But several problems present themselves. Kate despises beer. No one seems to trust her. And she is falling hard for her boss.

Can these two smoke out a saboteur, save Kate’s family home, and keep a killer from closing in…all while resisting their undeniable attraction to one another? Filled with humor, heart, and loveable characters, Love in a Nutshell is delicious fun.

 

[angel2write]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Lots of good philosophical stuff to argue about plus a kind of interesting plot. I liked it, but I read it years and years ago.

 

[anthony]

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

I was looking at Sarah's Key earlier... just wasn't real sure for myself, but hey, I would read it if it comes up.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Maybe we should read something non-fiction this time. What, I don't know yet. But I know a few people who are interested in the book club but don't read fiction.

 

[anthony]

The book is chosen on complete randomness. There are no limits to how many books you suggest... so people should be suggesting lots of books they want to read, increasing the chances of a book they want read appearing in the top 10.

At the end of the day, the book is chosen by book club members, nothing else. So if people want to read a non-fiction book, then if that is what gets voted for, that is what we choose to read or not.

Genres are controlled by who votes for what. I am open to everything... yet at the end of the day, I will vote for what I read as the better description of the book based on what choices are available.

If the randomizer pulls out the top 10 as non-fiction, then guess what? The book chosen will be non-fiction.

 

[anthony]

Here is my list of non-fiction I will submit for this round, after reading through about 20+ of the more popular sellers:

1. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
3. Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry
4. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
5. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
6. Moneyball
7. The Glass Castle: A Memoir
8. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
9. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)
10. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

 

[goingonhope]

Is there a soon to close-down deadline on these suggestions? I wanna make sure I don't miss it.

 

[anthony]

This will likely stay open until we start discussing the first book... then we narrow this and begin picking off results.

To be perfectly honest, people will usually suggest the same books, so we can simply keep the same book list and adding new suggestions, then entering them into the randomizer for club voting... only removing what we have read / chosen each time.

I will put together a full booklist of everything that has been suggested to date and create a thread for it if you want... or someone else can go through them and manage it if they want to. I'm easy...

 

[anthony]

Maybe that is the solution... we simply create a booklist thread and keep updating the first post with all the suggestions as they are posted?

We cross them out when they're chosen my members to read!!!