What to Read Next with Your Book Club

What to Read at Your Next Book Club Meeting

Oprah's Book Club | February 20, 2009

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Not sure what to choose for your book club's next read? Use these suggestions from members of the Oprah.com book club community to build a new reading list.

Overland Park, Kansas Book Club

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

Old Sames Book Club

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Classic Book Club

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Bookworms Book Club

Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlin
Snow Angels by S. O'Nan
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Gap Creek by R. Morgan

The Words of Wisdom Book Club

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper

The Rockford Book Club

Girl with the Pearl Earrring by Tracy Chevalier
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

The Woodlands, Texas Book Club

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Secret Bookers

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Secret Scripture by Sebastion Barry
True Colors by Kristin Hannah
Honolulu by Alan Brennert

New Jersey Book Club

Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon

Timshell 12 — San Diego

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Appleton Book Club — Appleton, Wisconsin

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

El Cajon Book Club — El Cajon, California

Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien

Phenomenal Women Book Club — New Orleans

Nina's Got a Secret by Brian W. Smith
My Love by Nathan Eshe
The Love Dare by Alex and Stephen Kendrick
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines

San Diego Moms

The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Shack by William P. Young
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Anything by John Steinbeck

The Bookends — Canton, Michigan

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Shack by William P. Young
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Murder, Mayhem and a Fine Man by Claudia Mair Burney

Read Between the Wines

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott

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