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Great Books for Book Group Discussions For email alerts of great books, sign in here. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Chalcot Crescent by Fay Weldon Diary of a Djinn by Gini Alhadeff Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass Bound by Antonya Nelson Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel My Hollywood by Mona Simpson Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman The Companion by Lorcan Roche The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman The Book of Right and Wrong by Matt Debenham Last Train from Cuernavaca by Lucia St. Clair Robson Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie May Fowler Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott Rolling the Bones by Kyle Jarrard Impatient with Desire by Gabrielle Burton The Girl with the Golden Shoes by Colin Channer Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Cecilia by Linda Ferri Old Filth by Jane Gardam Invisible by Paul Auster Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Spooner by Pete Dexter Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli Hold Love Strong by Matthew Aaron Goodman The Glass Castle  by Jeannette Walls Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar Amphibian by Carla Gunn (for parent/child book groups) How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal The Calling by Mary Gray Hughes The Darts of Cupid by Edith Templeton For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella  A Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher Brooklyn by Colm Toibin The African Queen by C.S. Forester On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters The Perfectionists by Gail Godwin In the Meantime by Robin Lippincott A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert Madame De Stael, The First Modern Woman by Francine Du Plessix Gray The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Little Bee by Chris Cleave In the Woods by Tana French Ruins by Achy Obejas Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield The Assault by Harry Mulisch The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinksi A History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep Waiting in Vain by Colin Channer The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford The Moon Opera by Bi Feiyu Kindred by Octavia E. Butler The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Good Behaviour by Molly Keane Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The House Beautiful by Allison Burnett The Body Artist by Don Delillo Esther's Inheritance by Sandor Marai The Open Door by Elizabeth Maguire Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchener The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis The Third Angel  by Alice Hoffman The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana          Deaf Sentence  by David Lodge By Chance by Martin Corrick On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry I Love Dollars by Zhu Wen The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Mercy by Toni Morrison The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa The English Major by Jim Harrison To Siberia by Per Petterson The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing Smile as they Bow by Nu Nu Yi The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones Man in the Dark by Paul Auster The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain Fine Just The Way It Is by Annie Proulx The Touchstone by Edith Wharton The Emigrants by WG Sebald.                         Have Comments? Write to me at sankovitch@readallday.org. Site and content wholly written, created, and owned by Nina Sankovitch and cannot be used without the express consent of Nina Sankovitch. Some books reviewed on www.readallday.org were review copies supplied by the publishers.