Books with 'Club' in the Title
Top 10 Books with 'Club' in the Title
: The Jane Austen Book Club, The Dante Club, The Friday Night Knitting Club, The Master Butchers Singing Club, The First Wives Club, The End of Your Life Book Club, The Liars' Club, The Persian Pickle Club, Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky, The Hindi-Bindi Club
The Jane Austen Book Club
Author | Karen Joy Fowler |
ISBN | 0452286530 |
The Extraordinary New York Times Bestseller In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties...
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
Words can bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and...
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Author | Kate Jacobs |
ISBN | 0399154094 |
Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on their latest projects - and share the stories of their lives...
At the center of Walker and Daughter is the shop's owner, Georgia, who is overwhelmed with juggling the store and single-handedly raising...
Author | Louise Erdrich |
ISBN | 0060837055 |
From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the...
Author | Olivia Goldsmith |
ISBN | 0099435136 |
Don't get mad. Get everything.
When their best friend commits suicide over her divorce, Elise, Brenda and Annie decide enough is enough. Each was crucial to her husband's career. But now that the men are successful, they've traded in their wives for newer, blonder models.
Over lunch...
The End of Your Life Book Club
Author | Will Schwalbe |
ISBN | 0307594033 |
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon...
Author | Mary Karr |
ISBN | 0143035746 |
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a...
Author | Sandra Dallas |
ISBN | 0312147015 |
It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging...
Author | Esther Averill |
ISBN | 1590170474 |
In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni, and stately, plump Mr. President....
For decades they have remained close, sharing treasured recipes, honored customs, and the challenges of women shaped by ancient ways yet living modern lives. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club, a nickname given by their American daughters to the mothers who left India to start anew—daughters now grown...
Author | Rachel Caine |
ISBN | 0451233182 |
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine is "a first-class storyteller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris).
After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author | Michael Chabon |
ISBN | 0007149824 |
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews...
The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Author | Carole Matthews |
ISBN | 0755335821 |
THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS' CLUB brings together four very different women with one thing in common: they can't resist chocolate. This is an irresistible novel for anyone who wishes they were a member!
Lucy Lombard can't resist it - rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there's nothing...
Fiery Ramona Quimby and the well-meaning Henry Huggins may clash, but in this delightful and hilariously told novel by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, an unlikely compromise wins the day.
Henry and his friends are building a no-girls-allowed clubhouse. With a private space...
Author | Bertrand R. Brinley |
ISBN | 1930900104 |
The "mad scientists" here are a lot more Scooby Doo than HG Wells. They're like, if the Scooby Doo villains were kids playing pranks rather than adults after cash. We'll cover this sheet in luminescent paint and pretend it's a ghost! We'll make a lake monster out of this raft and some stuff from the junkyard!...
The Billionaire Bad Boys Club
Self-made billionaires Zane and Trey have been a club of two since they were eighteen. They’ve done everything together: play football, fall in love, even get smacked around by their dads. The only thing they haven’t tried is seducing the same woman.
Rebecca learned early on not to trust...
In this juicy first novel by a talented newcomer, a series of personal dramas are played out during one summer at a Nantucket Beach Club. It's about the love of summer, summer love, and the special feelings we all have for that special summer place--in this case, a hotel and an island.Mack Petersen, manager...
Author | Louis Menand |
ISBN | 0007126905 |
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist...
Author | Linda Evans Shepherd |
ISBN | 0800759842 |
plot summary: what happens, when & where, central characters, major conflicts[return]meet the six women of the mt. summit, colorado potluck club. they meet to share food and prayer requests, and although their meetings may occasionally turn into gossip fests, by the end of this tale the reader...
Author | Arthur Ransome |
ISBN | 0879237872 |
As a child these were my favourite books, I loved stories of adventure and my family holidayed in the English Lake District where the Swallows & Amazon books are set so I knew the places they visited.
Coot Club, along with Big Six is set in the Norfolk Broads and doesn't feature the Swallows &...
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
Author | David Gilmour |
ISBN | 0887622852 |
At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse...
It’s Ex-Wives versus Next Wives in this latest novel from bestselling author Jane Moore—a sexy tale of modern (re)marriage, packed with razor-sharp wit and high-stakes drama.
It’s Alison’s wedding and she and her groom, Luca, have just exchanged vows and are preparing to cap off...
The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
Author | Dana Bate |
ISBN | 1401311008 |
Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., lives in a swanky apartment with her high-achieving boyfriend, and is poised for an academic career just like her parents. The only problem is that Hannah doesn’t want any of it. What she wants is much...
Author | Betsy Haynes |
ISBN | 0553154133 |
Betsy Haynes treads on the heels of Judy Blume and Paula Danziger for this one. Jana Morgan a neurotic , over dramatic preteen leads a club against a snooty, beautiful classmate Taffy ( which we’re never quite sure is ever justified. ) When Taffy develops you-know-whats that’s the last straw. The...
Author | Tara Altebrando |
ISBN | 0525423257 |
Jane has traveled the world with her father and brother, but it's not until her fractured family-still silently suffering from the loss of Jane's mother many years before-inherits a house and a history in Coney Island that she finally begins to find a home. With the help of a new community of friends,...
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Author | Craig Davidson |
ISBN | 0735274827 |
A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.
Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical, slightly...