UPDATE: So I submitted "Earth Abides" per kleinbl00's recommendation. The group is excited about reading it so we'll see how it goes :)
Any good recommendations? We have a small book club at work that has been going on for about 5-6 years and it's my turn to pick (just finished 10.000 Doors). Only fiction, with a wide range but light science fiction, thrillers, historical and historical fantasy seem to be a common theme recently. I am torn between Dark Matter by Blake Crouch or Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel now but wondering if they are too hard sci-fi for the group.
Edit per Dala's recommendation. These are books we have read before (most recently read is at the bottom):
2013
- Zone One
- Snow Crash - I liked, but not a group favorite
- Boomsday
- Let the Great World Spin
- Warm Bodies
- Manual of Detection
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Bright lights Big City
- Graceland
2014
- Dandelion Wine - everyone hated this book
- And Then There Were None
- The Land of Steady Habits
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- The Dog Stars - group favorite
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- Survivor
2015
- Ringworld
- Deep Down Dark
- Collision Low Crossers
- The Martian - group favorite
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
- The Narrow Road to t he Deep North
- Practical Demon keeping
- Six of Crows
- A Brief History of Seven Killings
2016
- Stone Mattress - not a group favorite.
- When Breath Becomes Air
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things
- The Girl on the Train - everyone liked this (this was before the movie)
- Send More Idiots
- The Big Sheep
- Life After Life
2017
- The Handmaid's Tale - great discussion on this one during the election
- Dark Matter - I guess we did read this book but totally forgot about it, ugh age is getting to me.
- Sing Unburied Sing
- The Undoing Project
2018 - club died for a bit this year.
- A Man called Ove
2019 - Left the club, work was overwhelming, so didn't read these :'(
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
- The River: A novel
- American Spy: A Novel
- The Nickel Boys: A Novel
2020 - back in the club this year.
- 10,000 Doors