July 5th, 2011
BEA; The Great Read Alike
The Great Read Alike:
If You Like This… You’ll LOVE That!
Tuesday, May 24th | 10:00-11:00 a.m.| Rm. 1E16
titles discussed:
Kaite Stover (Kansas City Public Library)
If you like:
The American Heiress, Daisy Goodwin, St. Martin’s Press, 6/21/2011
Then try:
The Golden Prince, Rebecca Dean
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Movies:
Upstairs Downstairs
Gosford Park
Discuss this in the book group:
The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton
If you like:
The Stranger’s Child, Alan Hollinghurst, Knopf, 10/11/2011
Then try:
The Vanishing Moon, Joseph Coulson
The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Movie:
A Room with a View
Discuss this in the book group:
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
If you like:
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, Melanie Benjamin, Delacorte, 6/26/2011
Then try:
The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
Ghost Light, Joseph O’Connor
Movies:
La Vie En Rose
Carrington
Discuss this in the book group:
Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Susan Vreeland
Lesa Holstine (Velma Teague Branch Library)
If you like:
Bury Your Dead, Louise Penny, Minotaur, 8/2/2011
Then try:
One Was a Soldier, Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson
Among the Departed, Vicki Delany
If you like:
Sizzling Sixteen, Janet Evanovich, Random House, 6/29/2011
Then try:
Lucky Stiff, Deborah Coonts
Sticky Fingers, Nancy Martin
Liar, Liar, K.J. Larsen
If you like:
Crunch Time, Diane Mott Davidson, Morrow, 4/5/2011
Then try:
The Long Quiche Goodbye, Avery Aames
State of the Onion, Julie Hyzy
Devil’s Food Cake Murder, Joanne Fluke
If you like:
Sherlock Holmes/Dr.Watson pairing, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin pairing, Rex Stout
Then try:
John Ceepak/Danny Boyle pairing: Tilt-A-Whirl, Chris Grabenstein
Robin Beerbower (Salem Public Library)
If you’re looking forward to:
Before I Go to Sleep, S. J. Watson , Harper, 6/14/2011
Then try:
Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
Replay, Ken Grimwood
If you’re looking forward to:
Turn of Mind, Alice LaPlante, Atlantic Monthly Press, 6/13/2011
Then try:
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
Elephants Can Remember, Agatha Christie
If you’re looking forward to:
The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes, Marcus Sakey , Dutton, 6/9/2011
Then try:
On Borrowed Time, David Rosenfelt
If you’re looking forward to:
The Lantern, Deborah Lawrenson, Harper, 7/20/2011
Then try:
The 13th Tale, Diane Setterfield
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
Also try these movies:
Memento
Flight Plan
The Others
50 First Dates
You’ll also love these thrillers with boffo endings:
Sister, Rosamund Lupton
13th Hour, Richard Doetsch
The Poison Tree, Erin Kelly
Into the Blue, Robert Goddard
Step to the Graveyard Easy, Bill Pronzini
Psychological novels with a literary bent:
A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian
Straight thrillers:
anything by Harlen Coben
anything by Linwood Barclay (The Accident)
Love You More, Lisa Gardner
Think of a Number and Shut Your Eyes Tight, John Verdon
Long Gone, Alafair Burke
The Edge, Jeffery Deaver
More creepy gothic goodness:
anything by Kate Morton
Ghost Writer and The Séance, John Harwood
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Bride of Pendorric, Victoria Holt
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Women’s fiction with a novel twist, try:
Last Letter from Your Lover, JoJo Moyes
And a few more movies:
The Adjustment Bureau
Hanna
RED
Inception
Taken
Unknown
The Town
Source Code
Shayera Tangri (Porter Ranch Branch Public Library)
If you like:
Contemporary Romance (Nora Roberts and Jayne Ann Krentz)
Then try:
The Sweetest Thing, Jill Shalvis, Forever, 4/1/2011
A Lot Like Love, Julie James, Berkley, 3/1/2011
Good Girls Don’t, by Victoria Dahl, 8/30/2011
If you like:
Historical Romance (Mary Balogh and Julia Quinn)
Then Try:
Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart, Sarah Maclean, Avon, 4/26/2011
Follow My Lead, Nate Noble, Berkley Sensation, 5/3/2011
The Soldier, Grace Burrowes, Sourcebooks Casablanca, 6/1/2011
If You Give A Girl a Viscount, Kieran Kramer, St, Martin’s, 11/1/2011
If you like:
Paranormal Romance (Sherrilyn Kenyon and MaryJanice Davidson)
Then try:
Second Grave on the Left, Darynda Jones, St. Martin’s, 8/16/2011
Heart of Steel, by Meljean Brook, Berkley Trade, 11/1/2011
Heartless, by Gail Garriger, Orbit, 6/28/2011
Stephanie Chase (Multnomah County Library)
If you like:
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, 9/13/2011 (historical/gothic)
Then try:
The Distant Hours and The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Drood, Dan Simmons
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine
If you like:
Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tor, 6/7/2011 (classic with a twist)
Then try:
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Jenna Starborn, Sharon Shinn
The Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon
Passion Play, Beth Bernobich
Soulless and the other titles in “The Parasol Protectorate” series, Gail Carriger
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
If you like:
The Peach Keeper, Sarah Addison Allen, Bantam, 3/22/2011 (chick lit… with magic)
Then try:
Previous Sarah Addison Allen titles
Before Ever After, Samantha Sotto
The Other Life, Ellen Meister
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
Practical Magic, The Red Garden, and other titles, Alice Hoffman
The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obrecht (literary fiction with a bent of myth)
The Post-Birthday World, Lionel Shriver
If you like:
The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan, Knopf, 7/12/2011 (Twilight for grownups)
Then try:
The Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris
The Passage, Justin Cronin
Discovery of Witches, Deb Harkness
Also recommend urban fantasy titles for patrons who aren’t squeamish about sex:
Laurell K Hamilton
Patricia Briggs
Sherrilyn Kenyon