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Book Clubs Recommend

When it comes to selecting books, there's nothing better than a recommendation from a book club. We featured 100 top reading suggestions from book clubs in The Book Club Cookbook. Since then, we've been posting recommendations from book clubs around the country on this page. We've also included some menus from their meetings. Each title links to a book club recommendation.

Please note that the featured books on our websites do not necessarily have a culinary tie-in: the goal of our sites is to connect readers with the best fiction and non-fiction titles for book clubs.

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Happy Reading!

ALL SOULS by Michael Patrick

MOLOKA'I by Alan Brennert
THE AMERICAN PLAGUE by Molly Caldwell Crosby MY LIFE IN FRANCE by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
AMERICAN WIFE by Curtis Sittenfeld MY SISTER’S KEEPER by Jodi Picoult
BENEATH A MARBLE SKY by John Shors THE NEXT THING ON MY LIST by Jill Smolinski
BLESSINGS by Anna Quindlen THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL by Phillipa Gregory
  OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout
BONE COLD by Erica Spindler PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett
THE BOOK OF SALT by Monique Truong PLAIN TRUTH by Jodi Picoult
THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak PLUM WINE by Angela Davis-Gardiner
THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL by Asne Sierstad THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA bu Philip Roth
CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN by Fannie Flagg POMEGRANATE SOUP by Marsha Mehran
CARRY ME HOME by Sandra Kring POPE JOAN by Donna Woolfolk Cross
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY, ONE CHRISTMAS & THE THANKSGIVING VISITOR by Truman Capote  POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY by Michael B. Oren
THE COFFEE TRADER by David Liss PROMISE THE MOON by Elizabeth Joy Arnold
COLOR ME BUTTERFLY by L.Y. Marlow THE PURSUIT OF ALICE THRIFT by Elinor Lipman
COOKING FOR MR. LATTE by Amanda Hesser REBECCA by Daphne Du Maurier
CROW LAKE by Mary Larson THE RED SCARF by Kate Furnivall
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHARLIE ST. CLOUD by Ben Sherwood RIVER OF DOUBT by Candice Millard

DEATH OF INNOCENCE by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

THE ROMANCE READER by Pearl Abraham
A DELICATE BALANCE by Edward Albee RUN by Ann Patchett
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson SATURDAY by Ian McEwan
THE DEW BREAKER by Edwidge Danticat THE SEAMSTRESS by Frances Peebles
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY by Jean-Dominique Bauby SEPULCHURE by Kate Mosse
DREAM OF THE BLUE ROOM by Michelle Richmond SERVING CRAZY WITH CURRY by Amulya Malladi

EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert

SHADOW DIVERS by Robert Kurson
EATING HEAVEN by Jennie Shortridge THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
THE EGYPTOLOGIST by Arthur Phillips THE SHINIEST JEWEL by Marian Henley
FINN by Jon Clinch SISTER OF MY HEART by Chitra Divakaruni
FIREFLY LANE by Kristin Hannah SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See 
FIRST MOTHERS by Bonnie Angelo SO BIG by Edna Ferber
FUNNY IN FARSI by Firoozeh Dumas THE SPACE BETWEEN US by Thrity Umrigar
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO by Kate Walbert THE SPEED OF DARK by Elizabeth Moon
THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeanette Walls STILL ALICE by Lisa Genova
GOING TO THE SUN by James McManus STOLEN LIVES by Malika Oufkir
A GOOD INDIAN WIFE by Anne Cherian THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski
THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry THE SUGAR QUEEN by Sarah Addison Allen
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows SUITE FRANCAISE by Irene Nemirovsky
THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss SUMMER by Edith Wharton
THE HOUSEKEEPR AND THE PROFESSOR by Yoko Ogawa SWEET MANDARIN by Helen Tse
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford

TALES OF A FEMALE NOMAD by Rita Golden Gelman

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG by Andre Dubus III THE THIRTEENTH TALE by Diane Setterfield
HOW TO BE LOST by Amanda Eyre Ward    THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger
ISAAC'S STORM by Erik Larson A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini
THE KIDS FROM NOWHERE by George Guthridge THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
THE KNOWN WORLD by Edward P. Jones UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN by Frances Mayes
THE LAST CHILD by John Hart UNLESS by Carol Shields
A LONG WAY DOWN by Nick Hornby WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA by Carlos Eire
LOST HORIZON by James Hilton WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen
LOVE AND BIOLOGY AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE by Jennie Shortridge WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE by Julie Otsuka
LOVING FRANK by Nancy Horan

WHY I'M STILL MARRIED by Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine

LUCKY ME by Debra Borden WICKED by Gregory Maguire
MARCH by Geraldine Brooks

WILL IN THE WORLD by Stephen Greenblatt

THE MANY LIVES & SECRET SORROWS OF
JOSEPHINE B. by Sandra Gulland

WORLD WITHOUT END by Ken Follett
THE MASTER BUTCHER’S SINGING CLUB
by Louise Erdrich
THE WORLD WITHOUT US by Alan Weisman
MCCARTHY'S BAR by Pete McCarthy THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga
THE MIDDLE PLACE by Kelly Corrigan WHY NEW ORLEANS MATTERS by Tom Piazza
A MIDNIGHT CAROL by Patricia K. Davis THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION by Michael Chabon
MILA 18 by Leon Uris