2025!!! Can you believe it's time to start thinking about our book club picks for the new year already! It's going to be here before you know it and I thought if we get our picks done a little early this year, we can put the books on our Christmas wish lists too! We have a fun informal book club here at The Lilypad and it's open to anyone and everyone who likes to read! For this thread we are looking for suggestions for what to read together over the next four months. Each person can suggest one book one book one book one book. In order to give lots of people a change to make a suggestion, let's stick to one suggestion per person to start. When I do the voting poll, I can only have 10 selections in the poll, so one book suggestion per person lets more people give suggestions each time. I will leave this thread open until about November 11th or until we get 10 suggestions. Then I will open up a voting poll. Once we vote, I'll start a new thread for each of the four top books... one per month, for the next four months starting in January. You can see the complete list of our old picks in our Master Reading List. You can read the books in any order and at any time. If you want to chat about the books, just reply to that thread. Easy peasy! So.... what should we read together next? 1. The Physician by Noah Gordon 2. Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon 3. Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell 4. Poison Study by Maria V Snyder 5. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books 6. Other People's Houses by Kelli Hawkins 7. Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt 8. The Wedding People by Alison Espach 9. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig 10.
I'm going to make a suggestion based on a book that I want to read, not one I've already read. It's an older book (1986) but was recommended to me by a friend and then on Goodreads it's compared to Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett which I loved! It is a long one though, just fair warning. The Physician by Noah Gordon
I know I have not been taking part much lately in the book club but thought I would share this book I just found on the Good Reads site as I do enjoy a mystery. Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon
I am on a wait list with the library for the new Scarpetta book by Patricia Cornwell "Identity Unknown" ... I really love all of Patricia Cornwell books (except won't read her Jack the Ripper one)... Her Scrapetta series is awesome. I have read every one of them!
I just read this one and LOVED it! There were a few times I literally laughed out loud! Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
this is one of the last physical books i bought - i think this is aussie so i'm not sure re: availability but it's supposedly a bit Girl on the Train https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55228117-other-people-s-houses?ref=nav_sb_ss_3_21 (if you want an alternate suggestion that's not aussie, LMK)
Whoa! That one sounds really good too and creepy! I checked my e-library and regular library and neither of them have this one, but it is available in paperback on Amazon for about $14 plus $4 shipping. I added it to the list.
I'm going to recommend Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt. It's the first in the Andy Carpenter Series. I've read the whole series, except for the latest that is on my Kindle, and I love every book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017537.Open_and_Shut
I am going to recommend The Wedding People I just finished this. Loved it. There's more to it than just a light rom com.
I’d like to recommend The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198281740
I read the Midnight Library by this author. I didn't know he had a new one. Added it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion.
The Voting thread is open! Come on over and pick your favorites! https://the-lilypad.com/forum/threads/book-club-voting-jan-apr-2025.95109/
