Tonight was the Book Club Forum hosted by Random House at the Pleasant Hill Library. During this 90 minute event a representative from Random House spoke about several newly released books by the publishing company. I thought the presenter did a great job of creating interest in all of the books without giving away any spoilers. The books that caught my eye (ear?) are the following:
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
In The Shadow of the Cypress by Thomas Steinbeck (John's son)
The Devil's Company by David Liss
Nose Down, Eyes Up by Merrill Markoe
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Conversations with Mr. Prain by Joan Taylor
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Najood Ali and Delphine Minoui
and
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
These are books that I think would be great for book club discussions or just personal reading.
At the end of the night there was a raffle for a bag of advanced uncorrected proof books. Guess who won? That's right, your humble blogger. Don't worry I plan on sharing the wealth at our next book club meeting.
Random House holds two of these forums every year. One at the Orinda Library in February and one in Pleasant Hill in June.
By the way, one thing I couldn't help noticing from the forum that I was the only male in the room (besides the presenters) and the only person under 40 (maybe 50) in the room. This is perhaps a topic for another post.
Congrats on the raffle win! I am so jealous! Thanks for the book list. Maybe for our first meeting back from summer hiatus we can choose a book from this list to kick off things.
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