Book Clubs :: SOC Sistas Long List

April is when our book club makes its selections of books for the upcoming year. We started this three years ago, it has worked beautifully and prevents those painful moments at the end of the meeting when someone is trying to think of a great recommendation that they’ve heard of but aren’t sure if they really think it will be good for the group.

If you’re just catching up, here’s where I talk about our process. At the bottom of the post are past years’ long and short lists.

Finally, let me know what you think – especially if you have thoughts on the books listed below!

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Dimestore: A Writer’s Life by Lee Smith
Family Furnishings by Alice Munro
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
I am David by Anne Holm
In the President’s Secret Service by Ronald Kessler
Lay This Body Down by Gregory Freeman
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My Mother’s Ring: A Holocaust Historical Novel by Dana Fitzwater Cornell My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Children by Edith Wharton
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Plum Tree Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Anderson Brower
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Through the Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship Ann Patchett / Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Terese Anne Fowler