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FROM: Susan McClelland <[removed]@northwestern.edu>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 10:49 AM

I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about
book clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would
be welcome!
Sue

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REC'D: 2/7/05, 11:06 AM

In a message dated 2/7/2005 11:47:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@northwestern.edu writes:
I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about
book clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would
be welcome!
Sue
Mary Alice Monroe's novel, The Book Club

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Dixie Danzeisen <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 11:06 AM

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley has a subplot about a group of
book lovers called the Corn Cob Club.
Hope this helps,

Dixie

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>Sue
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FROM: Lisa <[removed]@optonline.net>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 11:56 AM

Some titles:

Noble, Elizabeth

The Reading Group

Fowler, Karen Joy

The Jane Austen Book Club

Landvik, Lorna

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Monroe, Mary Alice

The Book Club

Spencer, Camika

He Had It Coming

Main, Elizabeth C.

Murder of the Month (March release)

Rivera, Beatriz

Playing With Light

Hunter, Catherine

The Dead of Midnight

Highmore, Julie

Pure Fiction

Lisa Eickler

The Field Library

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Date: 02/07/05 11:49:12

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Subject: fiction about book clubs

I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about

book clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would

be welcome!

Sue

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FROM: "Lisa Williams" <[removed]@molinelibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 2:05 PM

Am in the midst of new title, The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble and am
really enjoying its British bent.

Other ideas:

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe

It's been about 20 years since I read it, but if memory serves, And Ladies
of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer would also work.

Lisa Powell Williams
Reference Librarian
Moline Public Library
3130-41st Street
Moline, IL 61265
309/736-5737
Fax: 309/797-0480
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"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who
think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."--Anna
Quindlen

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In a message dated 2/7/2005 11:47:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@northwestern.edu writes:
I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about
book clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would
be welcome!
Sue
Mary Alice Monroe's novel, The Book Club

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Carrie Macdonald" <[removed]@leegov.com>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 4:32 PM

According to NoveList subject heading: book discussion groups
1. Rivera, Beatriz Adult N/A
Playing with light (2000)

2. Meredith, D. R. Adult N/A
By hook or by book (2000)

3. Fowler, Karen Joy Adult N/A
Jane Austen book club, The (2004)

4. Meredith, D. R. Adult N/A
Murder in volume (2000)

5. Hunter, Catherine Adult N/A
Dead of midnight, The (2002)

6. Meredith, D. R. Adult N/A
Murder past due (2001)

7. Monroe, Mary Alice Adult N/A
Book club, The (1999)

8. Highmore, Julie Adult N/A
Pure fiction (2003)

9. Landvik, Lorna Adult N/A
Angry housewives eating bon-bons (2003)

Also One True Thing by Anna Quindlen (mother-daughter book club) and
loosely The Book Borrower, characters read and the same book, but don't
have a group, per se.

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From: Fiction_L
Date: 02/07/05 11:49:12
To: Fiction_L
Subject: fiction about book clubs
I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about
book clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would be
welcome!

Sue

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/8/05, 9:11 AM

How could you fail to include Helen Hooven Santmyer's "...And Ladies of the
Club"?

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/8/05, 11:08 AM

_The Reading Group: A Novel_ by Elizabeth Noble (Jan. 2005)
"U.K. bestseller is a frothy page-turner that dissects the
relationships, desires and discoveries of five English women, all
members of a book club. Over the course of a year, the women read 12
novels (including Atonement, Rebecca and The Alchemist) and, through
their playful but intimate discussions (few of which revolve around the
books), they bond closely ..." (from PW review)

~ Molly

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Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
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FROM: Susan McClelland <[removed]@northwestern.edu>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 10:49 AM

I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about book clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would be welcome!

Sue

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/8/05, 1:35 PM

Another one, which I don't think has been mentioned yet ...

_Book Club: Books Are Their Life and Their Life Is a Book_
by Curtis Bunn (2004)

A novel that's really five stories about five fictional book clubs:
B.E.L.L.E.S. (Beautiful Elegant Literary Ladies) in Atlanta, Everybody's
Book Club in NYC, Women of the Knights Reading Group in D.C. , Bay Area
On-Line Book Readers in Oakland CA, and Ballers, Shot-Callers and Book
Worms in Houston, TX.

No editorial reviews at Amazon ... One reader review noted widespread
editing problems ...

Another said "Curtis Bunn has written five luminous stories that invite
readers to share book club moments. This is an excellent capturing of
how people's lives have been impacted with the increased popularity of
people meeting to read
and discuss books. If you're seeking good insight into the book club
phenomenon this is an excellent book to read."

Bunn established the National Book Club Conference (NBCC) for "consumers
of black literature."
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_4_6/ai_n6106198

~ Molly

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Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
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FROM: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/8/05, 3:06 PM

In addition to Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons and the three mysteries by
D.R. Meredith, our catalog fetched up:

The dead of midnight by Catherine Hunter
He had it coming by Camika Spencer
The Jane Austen book club / Karen Joy Fowler
and
Playing with light by Beatriz Rivera

Lynn S. Smith-Roberts
Librarian II

Carmichael Regional Library
Sacramento Public Library

5605 Marconi Avenue
Carmichael, CA 95608

[removed]@saclibrary.org
[removed]@hotmail.com

From: Fiction_L
Date: 02/07/05 11:49:12
To: Fiction_L
Subject: fiction about book clubs
I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about
book clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would be
welcome!

Sue

FROM: Joshua Neds Fox <[removed]@westland.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/8/05, 4:37 PM

Sue--

Karen Joy Fowler's "The Jane Austen Book Club" (New York: Putnam, 2004)
comes to mind, but only because it's so recent.

Joshua Neds-Fox
Public Library of Westland
[removed]@westland.lib.mi.us

FROM: "Keddy Outlaw" <[removed]@hcpl.net>
REC'D: 2/15/05, 10:20 AM

Fictional Gatherings: Novels about Book Clubs

Auchincloss, Louis. The Book Class. A book discussion group for Park Avenue
debutantes begins in 1908 and lasts seven decades.

Hager, Jean. Sew Deadly. B & B owner Tess Darcy volunteers her time as book
discussion leader at a senior center, but also gets embroiled in detective
work when one of the seniors is murdered.

Hunter, Catherine. The Dead of Midnight: a Mystery. Multiple murders in
Winnipeg seem to follow the plots of a popular mystery series being read by
members of the Café au Lait book club.

Landvik, Lorna. Angry Housewives Eating Bon-bons. Five Minnesota women
share the ups and downs of their lives along with the books they read.

Lovesay, Peter. Bloodhounds. Members of an elite group of mystery readers in
Bath, England become suspects in the murder of one of their own.

Meredith, D.R. Murder in Volume. A reference librarian turns sleuth when a
member of her mystery book group is murdered.

Monroe, Mary Alice. The Book Club. Though the lives of five women in
suburban Chicago are in tumult, their monthly book club meetings guarantee
friendship and support.

Rivera, Beatriz. Playing with Light. A Miami Beach housewife decides to
gather together her old girlfriends and revive the old Cuban tradition of
the tertulia, or women’s get-together, which evolves into a reading group.

Santmyer, Helen Hooven. – and Ladies of the Club. More than sixty years in
the lives of women who belong to a literary club in southern Ohio, from the
post Civil War era until the beginning of the Great Depression.

I realize some of these are repeats from other postings, but this is a fast
paste-up of a reading list I wrote for our website.

Keddy Ann Outlaw
Branch Librarian
West University Library
6108 Auden St.
Houston, TX 77005

Harris County Public Library: Your Pathway to Knowledge

Date: 02/07/05 11:49:12

To: Fiction_L

Subject: fiction about book clubs

I'm preparing a May, 2005 'Focus On' bibliography for fiction about book
clubs - any titles and/or bibliographic source suggestions would be welcome!

Sue

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