The Books!

What follows are the books on the reading list from now until May whenever we finish.  I thought that having a list might give people an opportunity to plan ahead, look around for cheaper copies, maybe even read ahead if they want to. I plan to organise an 'in real life' bookclub discussion on the first book to see how that goes. It will follow the twitter discussion; any suggestions or advances, tweet or DM me at @booksaregood or comment below.

I also wanted to say something about new members! A few people follow the twitter group and aren't yet involved - if you are one of them and are thinking of joining in these discussions, then please do! Not many of us are frightening.

Soo....drumroll please!! The books are:

Book 1

'Nightmare Alley' by William Lindsay Gresham has been picked for us by @uragraymalkin. Discussion for this book will be on Wednesday 28th March at 9pm.

The other books are as follows. I've set provisional dates for these, but they can be moved if they clash with something else.

Book 2

'A Time of Gifts' by Paddy Leigh Fermor has been picked for us by @sharonmcg1971. Discussion for this book will be Tuesday May 15th.

Book 3

One Day in September, the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre has been picked by @toykojazzpanda. Better trying to get this one used as it's out of print...from 40p on Amazon! Discussion for this book will take place in July.

Book 4

'The Sisters Brothers' by Patrick DeWitt was picked by @superemilyaah (and also suggested by @sharonmcg1971) will be discussed in August.

And finally...Book 5

'The Private Memoirs and Confessions Of A Justified Sinner - James Hogg has been picked by @booksaregood and we'll discuss this in September.

So....what do you think? Any you are particularly looking forward to? Would you have picked out any of these to read yourself? Comments to the usual place - tag them with #la1bc and/ or direct to @booksaregood