Thank you so much for all of your excellent feedback and suggestions for book club books. I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to choose for our May discussion, but now I have a fantastic list to select from and also have a surplus of titles to consider for future months. I’m going to share this list with the rest of my book club members in case they need suggestions as well. It’s always easier to decide on a book when the field is already narrowed to a list of reputable titles. Below, I’ve compiled the titles into an alphabetical list and also included recommended authors – hopefully, this will help others looking for good discussion books or just a good read for themselves. Thanks again!
Specific Titles
Coral Glynn – Peter Cameron
The Cutting Season – Attica Locke
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
Funny Girl – Nick Hornby
The Hollow Land – Jane Gardam
Jim the Boy – Tony Earley
Listening Valley – D.E. Stevenson
Little Century – Anna Keesey
A Lost Lady – Willa Cather
A Month in the Country – J.L. Carr
Murder Past Due – Miranda James
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
The Rosemary Tree – Elizabeth Goudge
The Scent of Water – Elizabeth Goudge
Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Silas Marner – George Eliot
The Solitary Summer – Elizabeth Von Arnim
Someone – Alice McDermott (Twitter suggestion)
The Soul of Kindness – Elizabeth Taylor
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
Vanessa and Her Sister – Priya Parmar
The Young Clementina – D.E. Stevenson
Authors
Tove Jansson
Penelope Lively
Emily St. John Mandel
Edith Wharton
Dorothy Whipple
A Certain Fondness 
Lovely suggestions! A Month in the Country and the Solitary Summer are great! 🙂
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This is a wonderful list! I feel like discarding my ‘to-read in 2015’ list and using this one! you are fortunate to have such great reading friends : ) thanks for posting it.
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The House of Mirth!! 😀
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I would love to join a book club that read from this list. : )
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So many great titles there (and so many I need to read myself!).
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You can’t lose! Thanks for sharing.
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I haven’t read any of these but I would like to try something by Kazuo Ishiguro. I hope you enjoy reading whatever you choose 🙂
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I’ve finished Excellent Women this morning and am dying to talk about it with someone. It would be a great book to read with bookclub. The best discussions with my group so far: Gone With the Wind, The Hare with Amber Eyes and Gone Girl.
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A wonderful list! And I’m so in love with that image; so many great, great titles there too.
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