For Book Club Members...

From Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life, a list of "10 Good Book Club Selections:"

Fraud by Anita Brookner
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Eden Close by Anita Shreve

And here is a cool idea from the Book Club Cook Book:

Invite an author to speak to your group via conference call...