What Book Are We Starting With?

[anthony]

I am actually open to anything here, as I've said, my books are all psychology / trauma focused, and I want out of that and into normal books.

Please recommend ONE book IF you are participating in this book club, otherwise, there is no need to get involved for chit chat purposes. You should recommend something you have not read.

[DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/about-book-club-read-me-to-partake.22936/[/DLMURL] says it best already.

We narrow down the top 10 recommendations, put it up in a poll, then we collectively come up with our book to read via vote.

Whoever starts these threads in the future, can then manage them.

As I started our first one, I will update this post with the list of recommended books and add the first poll to this thread when ready.

I'll come back to this tomorrow night and compile the books mentioned here, for us to begin narrowing down to 10, if there are more than that.

My recommendation is: The Tiger's Wife: A Novel (358 pages, release Mar 2011, US$15)

The Narrowed 10 Results After Randomization

1. The Hunger Games (384 pages, Jul 2010, $6) - Clairbear (Book 1 of a 3 book series)
2. The Slap (488 pages, Mar 2011, US$18) - Maddog
3. A heart for freedom (370 pages, Oct 2011, US$16) - Shell
4. Cutting for Stone (667 pages, Jan 2010, US$10) - IntoTheLight
5. The Tiger's Wife: A Novel (358 pages, Mar 2011, US$15) - Anthony
6. The Alchemist (208 pages, Apr 2006, $8) - Ayesha
7. God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem (288 pages, Nov 2011, US$17) - Burke
8. Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq (265 pages, Aug 2007, US$14) - Goingonhope
9. The Land of Painted Caves: Earth's Children (784 pages, Nov 2011, US$12) - KP The Nut (Book 6 of a 6 book series)
10. The Potato Factory (852 pages, Aug 1998, US$40) - Meadowsweet

 

[simplekindofgirl]

I would like to make a recommendation as well. Tuesdays with Morrie - by Mitch Albom

I am typically as OCD as it gets, and therefore have immersed myself in my studies as well as self help, trauma, and PTSD reading, for too long. It would be great to read anything else for a change.

 

[Meadowsweet]

The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay

I've read Bryce Courtenay before, but not read this book.

 

[KP the nut]

The Land of Painted Caves - Jean M Auel

I love this author and have read all her previous book. I haven't read this one yet though.

 

[KP the nut]

Gamer recommends

[DLMURL="https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/members/gamereign555.8977/"]gamereign555[/DLMURL] Book club recommendation: Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
Hardcover: Oct 1999,
301 pages.
Paperback: Aug 2000,
320 pages

 

[maddog]

The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas.

Maddog

 

[catjudo]

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

 

[Happy Head]

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. 1998, 274 hysterical pages

 

[Burke]

God, If Your Not Up There, I'm f*cked - Darrell Hammond

 

[goingonhope]

Upon further inspection I changed my mind, rather perhaps - Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq, Jackie Spinner

 

[KP the nut]

I have googled the above and most for me seem OK. Of course we are all different and it is good to develop out of our own comfortable reading habits.

Could I ask, to help keep costs down we recommend books which are in paperback?

 

[cat]

Great idea to have a book club. Like Anthony i've got into the habit of reading psychology books & need to make a change.
Looking forward to joining in. Nothing to recommend at the moment but will start research for the next book.