Host An Unforgettable Book Club Party

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they swore to stay friends forever. Until Adrian’s life took a turn into tragedy.

In a series of compelling and introspective letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, Eva Khatchadourian dissects her married life and her mothering of her son Kevin and daughter Celia in the aftermath of Kevin’s Columbine-like school slaying of seven classmates, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher.

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is based on the life of the author, who “was a revolutionary who lost his ideals in heroin, a philosopher who lost his integrity in crime, and a poet who lost his soul in a maximum-security prison.”

Alaska in 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone–but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

When She Woke is a stunning story about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are released back into the population after being “chromed.”

In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’ s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri is a collection of short stories about Indian culture, both in India and the United States, as well as the joys and difficulties of relationships that someone of any culture can identify with.

The morning after Julia’s graduation from law school, her Burmese-born father, a prominent Wall Street attorney, disappears. Weeks later Tin Win’s passport is found near the Bangkok airport.

Four years have passed since Tin Win’s disappearance and Julia is practicing law in New York City when she discovers a shocking letter among her father’s papers.

Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease changes her life.

While Emerald, her brother Clovis, her beautiful and haughty mother Charlotte, and youngest sister Imogene prepare for Emerald’s 20th birthday party, step-father Edward Swift leaves early that morning in an attempt to save his wife’s house. The invited guests, brother and sister Ernest and Patience Sutton, and wealthy neighbor and bachelor John Buchcanan, soon arrive at Sterne. However, things take an interesting and unexpected turn when the Torrington’s are charged with taking in the survivors of a horrible train wreck until the railroad can make arrangements for their displaced passengers.