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Book Club Selections List
This is a list of all the books read as part of the Mobileread Book Club so far, with links to the discussions. (Someone asked if we had a list, and we didn't, so I put one together.) I like the idea of "we don't have to stop discussing it when the month is over," but once the thread falls off the first page, it's hard to find again. This should make it easier to pick up the discussions later.
Categories are chosen by a combination of discussion and votes in the Book Clubs forum. 2008 November: Fiction A Passage to India by E.M. Forster December: MR Classic Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 2009 January: Science Fiction The Time Traders by Andre Norton February: MR Contemporary Refuge by Richard Herley March: Nonfiction Professor and the Mad Man by Whincester Simon April: MR Author Neptune Crossing by Jeffrey A. Carver May: Horror Dracula by Bram Stoker June: MR Classic King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard July: Humor Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome August: Contemporary Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell September: Mystery The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie October: MR Author Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer, Also: Verdant Skies by Steve Jordan November: Classic The Trial by Frans Kafka December: 2nd Chance: Runners-up Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers 2010 January: Science Fiction The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster February: Romance Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell March: Nonfiction (tie) The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and Stiff by Mary Roach April: Humor The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald May: Classic The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne June: Thriller/Suspense The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan July: Fantasy (trees/magic) Sheepfarmer's Daugher by Elizabeth Moon August: Free For All The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler September: Mystery/Crime Killing Floor by Lee Child October: Horror Risen by Jan Strnad November: Science Fiction Old Man's War by John Scalzi December: Classic The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 2011 January: 2nd Chance: Runners-up The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams February: Romance A Room With A View by E.M. Forster March: Nonfiction The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin April: Humor Hal Spacejock 01 by Simon Haynes May: Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy June: Thriller/Suspense Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett July: Fantasy (trees/magic) The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One by Patrick Rothfuss August: Free For All Slaughterhouse Five by Kurk Vonnegut September: Mystery/Crime The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik October: Horror The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells November: Science Fiction A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller December: Classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 2012 January*: Runner Up Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse February: Romance Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald March: Thriller/Suspense Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane April*: Humour The Princess Bride by William Goldman May: Fantasy Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman June: Classic Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott July: Mystery/Crime Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters August*: Free For All The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon September: Nonfiction A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia Edwards October: Horror Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu November: Science Fiction Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell December*: Classic Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton * The voting this month was visible. 2013 January: Second Chance - Persuasion by Jane Austen February: Romance - A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute March: Travel/Adventure - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne April: Classics - A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle May: Mystery/Thriller - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler June: Award Winners - The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt July: Non-fiction Fanny and Stella by Neil McKenna August: Science Fiction Doomsday Book by Connie Willis September: Banned/Challenged Books The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie October: Patricia Clark Memorial Library Dr. Izard by Anna Katherine Green November: Foreign (originally non-English) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas December: Short Stories Dubliners by James Joyce 2014 (all voting visible) January: 2nd Chance: Runners-up All Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Rema February: Romance Outlander by Diana Gabaldon March: Travel/Adventure On the Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope April: Classics The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde May: Mystery/Thriller The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith June: Award Winners July: Non-fiction August: Science Fiction September: Banned/Challenged Books October: Patricia Clark Memorial Library November: Foreign (originally non-English) December: Short Stories Last edited by Elfwreck; 05-29-2014 at 11:54 AM. Reason: Catch up. |
07-26-2011, 04:33 PM | #2 |
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Thank you for putting the work into making this list! This is a great resource.
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07-26-2011, 04:37 PM | #3 |
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Adding my thanks. This is terrific.
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07-26-2011, 05:15 PM | #4 |
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I will bookmark this post!
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07-26-2011, 07:45 PM | #5 |
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Adding great thanks. This is very interesting and I am sorry I was not around for a number of these. Maybe this could be moved up to the sticky section?
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07-26-2011, 08:40 PM | #6 |
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07-26-2011, 11:42 PM | #7 |
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Karma to you!
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07-27-2011, 02:47 PM | #8 |
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Groovy.
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07-28-2011, 10:03 AM | #9 |
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I'm not much of a participant , but I love to read the book club discussions. (One day I'll read and post, but so far I've just been reading the threads without reading the book, or I've read the book so long before that I don't remember the details.) Thanks for posting the titles and links!
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09-22-2011, 02:27 PM | #11 |
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Does subscribing to this thread update me to your newly selected titles for future months?
I'll keep an eye on the selected books and if one catches my eye I'll join in that month. How do we start our own book clubs here? |
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09-26-2011, 01:04 PM | #13 |
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nice work!
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10-22-2011, 10:44 PM | #14 |
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There were two books up for discussion in October '09?
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10-24-2011, 10:24 AM | #15 |
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^As well as March 2010. There was a tie in the voting and they just went with both before they've tried to come up with an actual winner now.
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