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2018 Charlotte's Book Club List |
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm!Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call... |
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Lilac Girls: A Novel
Martha Hall Kelly - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New... |
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In the Woods
Tana French - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post) . "Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching... |
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Calling Me Home: A Novel
Julie Kibler - St. Martin's Press; Large Print edition
Format: Hardcover
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Calling Me Homeby Julie Kibler is asoaring debut interweavingthe story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllisterhas a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. Its a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie,... |
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington - Digireads.com; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons" is the second book in his Growth trilogy, which depicts Mid-Western life from the post-Civil War era to the early twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, this novel follows the decline of the Ambersons, an aristocratic... |
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The Railwayman's Wife: A Novel
Ashley Hay - Atria Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"An absorbing and uplifting read." -M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans "This is a book in which grief and love are so entwined they make a new and wonderful kind of sense." -Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest Amidst the strange, silent aftermath... |
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Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Lisa See - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback
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In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous... |
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Ironweed : a novel
William Kennedy - Crane Library
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the third in Kennedys Albany cycle, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time bum with the gift... |
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Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
Lawrence Hill - W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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"Wonderfully written...as in the slave narratives that inspired it, language is power."—Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewKidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan... |
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A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
Ruth L Ozeki - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and EmptinessFinalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was,... |
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A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
Ruth L Ozeki - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and EmptinessFinalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was,... |
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The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner - Penguin Classics; Revised edition
Format: Book
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Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, just killing time until time gets around to killing me. His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been... |
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