Book list of suggested titles for the coming months - update Feb 9th

The list below was compiled from everyone's suggestions. Use the comments below to make further suggestions.

General suggestions:

• Include a "classic"--maybe one British, one US and also to include books from other English speaking countries.

• Continue our practice of at least one Israeli/Hebrew book a year.
• Keep the books under 500 (maybe 400) pages so that they can be easily read in a month.

 
(In the list below, titles are linked to Goodread pages, and authors are linked to Amazon pages.)

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1. ​The Search Warrant, or Dora Bruder Patrick Modiano
2. Church of Marvels, Leslie Parry
3. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks 
4. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Good Lord Bird, James McBride (a National Book Award in 2013)
6. Etta and Otto and Russell and James: by Emma Hooper  
7. Monsieur Linh and His Child – by Philippe Claudel
8. We Are Water – by Wally Lamb
9. Orphan Train – by Christina Baker Kline 
10. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry – by Gabrielle Zevin  (Author)
11. Elizabeth Is Missing – by Emma Healey 
12. Norwegian by Night – by Derek B. Miller  
13. The Children Act – by Ian McEwan 
14. My Salinger Year – by Joanna Rakoff  
15. In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist by Ruchama King Feuerman
16. The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel Paperback – by Alice Hoffman
17. It's Not Me, It's You – by Mhairi McFarlane
18. We Are Not Ourselves – by Matthew Thomas 
19. All the Light We Cannot See – by Anthony Doerr  
20. The Girls from Corona Del Mar – by Rufi Thorpe
21. The Betrayers – by David Bezmozgis
22. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
23. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (sequel to The Unlikely Pilgrimage)
24. Enon – by Paul Harding  
25. The Hundred-Foot Journey – by Richard C. Morais  
26. Fever – by Mary Beth Keane 
27. Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase by Louise Walters 
28. Schroder– by Amity Gaige 
29. Amity & Sorrow – by Peggy Riley
30. Far From The Madding Crowd - 19th c classic - Thomas Hardy
31. Like Dreamers - non-fiction, about Israel; suggested last year
32. The Hare With the Amber Eyes – (historical novel about the rise and fall of the Ephrussi family)
33. Lowland - fiction (2010) by Jhumpa Lahiri (author won Pulitzer for earlier book)
34. When the Caged Bird Sings – autobiography - by Maya Angelou
35. The Patriot (?) by Mario Vargas Lhosa (won the Nobel Prize in 2011)
36. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century by Ross E. Dunn
37. Orwell’s Revenge by Peter Huber
38. The Boston Girl, by Anita Diamant  (set in 1900's Jewish immigrant story; quick easy read)
39. A Spot of Bother, by Mark Haddon (funny British midlife crisis)
40. The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, by Enid Shomer  (historical fiction, when Florence Nightingale meets Gustave Flaubert)

 
Author: Clarice Lispector, a prominent Brazilian author who died in 1977. She has been described as possibly the most important Jewish writer since Franz Kafka. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.

 Additions:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Remember, from Goodreads you can find the book in a number of online stores, or libraries if you have services from one of them. I often look on Amazon because then we can read the book on a Kindle or an iPad.