Another fun Meetup with my book lover friends, this time at Jim’s Restaurant. My Chicken Club Salad was delicious, and although the servers tried to be quiet, it was a challenge for everyone to get their meals and drinks without some interruption to the meeting. But it was also nice to eat with friends.
Here is the list of books we discussed, with links to Amazon.
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Black Glass: Short Stories by Karen Joy Fowler
James Joyce in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
So Nude, So Dead by Ed McBain
House of Echoes by Brendan Duffy
The Merry Maines: A Shaggy Cat Story by Garnet Quinn
Arabian Nights & Days: A Novel by Naguib Mahfouz
Hell with the Lid Blown Off: An Alifair Tucker Mystery by Doris Casey
Blood on the Water: A William Monk Mystery by Anne Perry
Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hanson
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Berlin Diaries: 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
Middlemarch by George Elliot
The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jane Jarboe Russell
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John
George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrente
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Sun magazine
Yes magazine
The Progressive magazine
The Shadow Hunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford
The Rosie Effect: A Novel by Graeme Simsion
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
Tampa: A Novel by Alissa Nutting
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) by Sue Grafton
Engaged to Die (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 14) by Carolyn Hart
Wizard (Gaea) by John Varley
The Moon Maze Game (Dream Park) by Larry Niven and David Barnes
Dead on Cue by Anne Morice
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh
Half a King (Shattered Sea) by Joe Abercrombie
The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman
St. Burl’s Obituary by Daniel Akst
The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem by Ken Budd
The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent by John Stoye
Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Vienna: A Traveler’s Literary Companion edited by Donald G. Daviau
Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
Runaway by Alice Munro
Too, Too Solid Flesh by Nick O’Donohoe
The Affinity Bridge (Newbury & Hobbes Investigations) by George Mann
Ghost a la Mode (A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series Book 1) by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Murder at the Altar by Veronica Heley
Family Skeletons: A Spunky Missouri Genealogist Traces A Family’s Roots…And Digs Up A Deadly Secret (Torie O’Shea Mysteries) by Rhett MacPherson
The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived by Allan Lazar
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