It’s time to select our next read for the Free People book club! I loved diving into The Alchemist with you all in September and can’t wait to get started on a new book, but I need your help deciding! Please leave your suggestions for what book you’d like to read with us below – we will take them all into consideration as we make our decision :).
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The great gatsby! It’s set in the twenties and I love the twenties I have read the book three times I really love everything about it. The movie also comes out in December I think
The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway or The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. I’m reading them both right now and I love them!
One The Road, by Jack Kerouac. I’m looking forward to reading this one before I see the movie.
Tracks or Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
– Robert M. Pirsig
I cannot possibly live my life the same after having read this book. Glorious, and absolutely momentous all in the most simple of words.
I agree with Chloe, The Great Gatsby. I need to re-read it. The movie was pushed back to summer 2013 though…
I agree with Chloe, The Great Gatsby. I need to re-read it. The movie was pushed back to summer 2013 though…
Long Past Stopping by Oran Canfield
The Night Circus – hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s one of those rare breeds of book that you don’t want to devour in a day. You should savor the sumptuous writing for as long as you can – go slowly and gorge on the details.
I just started Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence…
http://www.mermaidheart.com
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do you know the best book ever?! Its: “Before I fall” by lauren oliver. I love this book! You really, really have to read it. :)
Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann…it is SO good.
i am a novelist & one of my books, called come tumbling down, is about the coming of age of a girl who’s always getting into trouble with her friend. kind of like sal and dean from on the road, but from a girl’s point of view. a whimsical beat/boho fairytale of sorts.
:)
come tumbling down is available here: lulu.com/littledipperink
much love & the last of the leaves.
How about “the god of small things”? Its an interesting book about twins in India and shows how all the little things in life make people into such unique individuals.
I love “The Dud Avocado” written in the 1950’s about an American Girl in Paris. Also, I am re-reading “A Room With A View” by E.M. Forester for the 5th time. It never dissapoints.
I think it would be great for everybody to read “One” or “The Bridge Across Forever” by Richard Bach. :)
The Paris Wife! By Paula McLain
The Lost Girls: Three Friends, Four Continents, One unconventional detour around the world!~
::::::::::::~ With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones—score the big promotion, find a soul mate, have 2.2 kids. Instead, they make a pact to quit their jobs, leave behind everything familiar, and embark on a yearlong round-the-world search for inspiration and direction.
:)
CARLOS CASTANEDA!
The Four Agreements- by Don Miguel Ruiz
Well, I’m currently reading Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Amado)
But my suggestion list is long:
The Golden Notebook or The Sweetest Dream – Lessing
The Kiterunner – Hosseini
The Steppenwolf – Hesse
The Magic Mountain – Mann
Blindness – Saramago
The sea wolf and/or White Fangs and The Call of the Wild – London
Eva Luna – Allende
jitterbug perfume by tom robbins
wuthering heights my all time favorite book, it’ll stay with you forever after you read it. no other love story like it there’s something so ethereal and strange about it that it makes you cling to it even more. If you do choose to read it get ready to cry, stay up all night, and question love at every turn.
“And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
i usually hate movies from books but, they did make a really great movie with Kaya Scodelario in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iamo78RDshQ
Shantaram–There is no other book out there about India that tells a story so poetically. It’s about to be made into a movie, so now is the time to read it before the Hollywood version is available.