PHBC Milestone Alert!

With our July book selection, the Pleasant Hill Book Club has reached book choice number 50! From the Hobbit (#1) to Communion (#50), the book club has read a lot of great books, a lot of ok books, and even some down right garbage ones.

A brief recap of some standout choices:

Books of the Year:
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Cat's Cradle
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Water for Elephants
(Some honorable mentions go to City of Thieves, The Hunger Games, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

Worst Books of the Year:
You Remind Me of Me
Dumbest Generation
Watership Down
The People of the Book
(Some dishonorable mentions go to Dangerous Days of Daniel X, Then We Came to the End, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and The Little Book)

Books read before their movies were released:
Watchmen
Hunger Games
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Water for Elephants
(soon to add The Hobbit, Ender's Game, and Before I Go to Sleep)

Shortest Title:
Dry

Longest Title (Not including post colon):
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

Most Read Author:
John Le Carre

Books that are a part of a series:
Dangerous Days of Daniel X
Hunger Games
The Hobbit
When Gravity Fails

Books on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die List:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Handmaid's Tale
The Time Machine
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The Moviegoer
Cat's Cradle
Watchmen
The Hobbit

Books on the Pleasant Hill Book Club 67 Books to Read Before You Die List:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Sex Lives of Cannibals
Lamb
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Hunger Games
Me Talk Pretty One Day
City of Thieves
The Time Machine 




For more on the number 50: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_%28number%29