"A girl was never ruined by books," my mother used to say. I've spent most of my life trying to prove that wrong.

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Books to Read This Summer in Preparation for Next Year's Book Groups

Okay, the booklists for the five book groups I lead in Montreal libraries are all set up. Here's what we'll be reading in the English groups, just in case you want to get a head start.

In no particular order:

The Heart, AKA Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Huraki Murakami

The Door by Magda Szabo

Commonwealth by Anne Patchett

The Light between the Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Sweetland by Michael Crummey

The Girl Who Was Saturday night by Heather O'Neill

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Doing the Heart Good by Neil Bissoondath

Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry

The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (Tr. Sandra Smith)

Doing the Heart Good by Neil Bissoondath

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

Brooklyn, a novel by Colm Toibín

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes

The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman

To the End of the Land by David Grossman

Hag-seed: Shakespeares' The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Et dans le groupe francophone:

Doerr, Anthony Toute la lumière que nous ne pouvons voir

Kerangal, Maylis Réparer les vivants

Arcan, Nelly Putain

Grenier, Daniel L'année la plus longue

Morrisson, Toni Beloved

Erdrich, Louise Dans le silence du vent

Schmitt, Eric- Emmanuel La part de l'autre

Barbeau- Lavalette, Anaïs La femme qui fuit

Dickner, Nicolas Six degrés de liberté