Fall '12 Book Club

Each season I will list ten to fifteen books. You will pick one, read it, review it and snail mail the review to your partner. You should try to read the whole book for this swap, but like I said, you have plenty of choices. Remember that the point of this is to read books/genres/authors that you otherwise wouldn’t, even if you have to grit your teeth and bear it. You may pick a book you’ve read before, but that kind of defeats the object, right? But, yes, you can do this.

Here’s the list for Fall '12 :

1. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
2. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
4. Embassytown by China Mieville
5. Snuff by Terry Pratchett
6. Blackout by Connie Willis
7. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
8. In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood
9. Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
10. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
11. The Wonderful Future That Never Was by Popular Mechanics
12. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Your review should be about one side of printer paper. You should include the following points and anything else you wish:

• Which book you picked and why.

• What the book is about – you can copy out the synopsis if you want.

• What you thought of the book (eg. Would you recommend this book? Would you read it again? Would you read more from that author? Or from the same genre? Is it the type of thing you like, or is it totally new for you? Why or why not would you read more like it? etc.)