See earlier posts for more books recommended by members of my book club and other friends. Click on the name of a book for a summary and/or comments.
For suggestions from other book-club devotees:
http://www.thebooklistreader.com/2014/09/24/national-reading-group-month-great-group-reads
The 2014 National Book Awards:
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014#.VHJTS4dZQ7B
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of an American Fortune, Bill Dedman
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, Anand Gopal
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, John Lahr
The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, Candice Millard
Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor, Adrian Fort
Longbourn, Jo Baker
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me, Lucinda Franks
Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace, Michael Morton
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lila, Marilynne Robinson
Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
And The Dark Sacred Night, Julia Glass
Astonish Me, Maggie Shipstead
