Reading & Rambling discussion

What book would you like to read together for our first group read? Do you have any specific books or genre in mind? Let's chat and choose something that works for us. Looking forward to hearing your suggestions!

Should we start off with something on the easier side? A fiction book? Not too long not too dense.

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

Okay, I looked through the books that I already have physical copies of on my to read list, and hilariously not many of them fit that criteria. Here are some that I have that we could consider:

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (I love the way she writes)

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Never Let Me Go or The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies or The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexandra McCall Smith

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

The Martian Chronicles or Dandelionwine by Ray Bradbury

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The Maltese Falcon by Hammett

I've also got some random pulp sci-fi I picked up from work. Most are around around the 200 page range, except for Fried Green Tomatoes, which is over 300. If none of these are appealing I can list more that I have; and you guys please list any books you're interested in and we can narrow something down together!

~Exit West is a love story, as you, Ray, mentioned you read that genre. Unless you've already read it!

Thank you for the suggestions! And no, I haven’t read Exit West yet. After taking some time to look into the descriptions for these, I find these three—along with Exit West—really intriguing:
Sharp Objects
Never Let Me Go
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

As for my suggestions:
That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

I don’t have many to add since most of my TBR consists of 400+ page fantasy romance series, which probably wouldn’t work well for a light read.

I’d love to hear what everyone thinks! :)

I've had Sharp Objects high up on my to read list for awhile. So out of my suggestions we could narrow it down to that, and That's Not My Name interests me a bit more than the other of your suggestions.

Ratdaddy wrote: "I've had Sharp Objects high up on my to read list for awhile. So out of my suggestions we could narrow it down to that, and That's Not My Name interests me a bit more than the other of your suggest..."

I am totally OK with reading Sharp Objects. If no one else has any suggestions by Friday then we can go ahead and choose this for our first group read.