Annie: Thanks for the info on the reading thread. I'll go thru it and make notes for my next foray to the library. - June

The books that provoked the most discussion in my book group in the past couple of years were:

Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

Daniel Mason, The Winter Soldier

Mark Helprin, Paris in the Present Tense

Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

Thanks, this is what I was hoping for.

Jim, we did Before We Were Yours and A Gentleman is already on the list.

I personally read Little Fires and Ibagree it could make for good discussion.

Bookwoman, I am off to google you list!

Our group decided to only read books that had enough copies available
from the library for all of us. So most of them were popular books a
year or two ago when there was a rush on holds for them, but then lots
of copies eventually became available. So most of these were probably
read by some of your members already.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

The Whole Town's Talking - Fannie Flagg

Last Days of Cafe Leila - Donia Bijan

Life After Life - Kate Atkinson - this was a loved it or hated it book in our group.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

I just read a book, not for our group, that would be a great book to discuss, called The Power by Naomi Alderman. It was either a dystopian or utopian novel (depending on your views) of an evolutionary quirk that suddenly gives women a power that makes them more physically powerful then men. I still am ruminating on it, trying to figure out whether I liked it or not.

I remember another one that got some good discussion...

The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood.

ETA...

Many years ago, with a different group, we enjoyed the discussions of books that we read in High School. Re-reading A Scarlet Letter gave us a much different perspective of the book. Consider getting the group to re-read something from when they were forced to read a certain book. Lots of book fill that niche.

Oly, my group is doing the same thing. All books have been out for a while and are readily accessible.

I have read all of Fannie Flagg's books. Loved them.

Jim, I just might suggest your idea, see what the others think.

Art of Hearing Heartbeats is wonderful and led to good discussion.

We Were the Lucky Ones became our community read and was enhanced by the author showing up to talk about what she did to write the story. Apparently they are now working on a TV miniseries of the story too.