Below are the topics for the most recent meetings of my local book salon. Each topic here includes a dozen representative books from the original lists of suggested books that were created to give people ideas about the possibilities for a given topic; however, participants are free to choose whatever book they believe fits the theme.
51: The Sisters Brothers
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan)
Howards End (E.M. Forster)
The Invisible Bridge (Julie Orringer)
Legends of the Fall (Jim Harrison)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
May We Be Forgiven (A.M. Homes)
Practical Magic (Alice Hoffman)
The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt)
A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Sly Wit 