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Hey all!! I proposed a book club to my adult education coordinators and we decided on 2 books a semester, 9 weeks. I'm thinking we can do a fiction book and a non fiction counterpart for discussion and some different perspectives.
What fiction books have you read that have a non fiction book related to the incidents involved? Please drop your ideas into the comments below! 💜

IamIamIam @MrBook @LibrarianRyan @BarbaraTheBibliophage @TrishB @andrew65 @Cinfhen @emilyhaldi @dariazeoli 4y

Traci1 The Witches Salem, 1692 and

The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel

IamIamIam @Traci1 Great recommendations! 4y

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IamIamIam Has anyone read this? I find these 2 so interesting... maybe it's a New York thing? Lol

Homer And Langley

Riveted_Reader_Melissa So something like The Hate U Give and

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Or George and

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

IamIamIam @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yes! Those are great suggestions, thanks! 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I guess those are more similar topic, but not same event.... let me think some more... 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @IamIamIam You‘re welcome 4y

IamIamIam @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I'll take any suggestions you can give! They're not all going to pair up perfectly but a theme is good too. I was thinking the Collyers and a book on mental illness or watching Grey Gardens together. I'm still fleshing out ideas because the spring semester doesn't start until February. 👍 I appreciate your help! 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @IamIamIam I don‘t know Collyers, but a for a fiction book in mental illness maybe Challenger Deep or Still Alice

Challenger Deep

IamIamIam @Riveted_Reader_Melissa That's great!!! Check out the story of Homer & Langley Collyer, btw... 🤯🤯🤯 But maybe I can do hoarders for spring, since we're all kind of recluses now, and mental illness/unreliable characters for the fall? 4y

dariazeoli Ooh, I love this! I need to give it some thought - we started talking about this over at the Nonfiction Nerds group earlier this year: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/21166857 4y

dariazeoli @BarbaraTheBibliophage any suggestions? 4y

IamIamIam @dariazeoli Awesome!!! Sadly, I kind of fell off the NFN wagon but I've had a rough reading year as it is. I'll check back into the group to see what the discussion was! 💜 I'm leaning towards Homer and Langley as a fic pick, Empty Mansions as a nf pick and maybe Grey Gardens if we have time. Recluses and hoarding will be my topic after our quarantine! Lol, I do want to keep it going so I'll have to stockpile topics. 😁 4y

LibrarianRyan Lets See Here; There is The Wizard of Oz and (I suggested this for work and it never happened.)

Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story

LibrarianRyan You could also do something like Creature from the black lagoon and

Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick (Original)

BarbaraTheBibliophage I started adding “book pairing” suggestions in my reviews on GR and my blog around a year ago. Or maybe longer. So I would refer you there first. And I‘ll suggest a couple here too. 4y

BarbaraTheBibliophage And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts and

Great Believers

BarbaraTheBibliophage The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates and

Between the World and Me

BarbaraTheBibliophage Walking with the Wind by John Lewis and

The Nickel Boys: A Novel

BarbaraTheBibliophage Grief is a thing with Feathers by Max Porter and

The Year of Magical Thinking

IamIamIam @LibrarianRyan @BarbaraTheBibliophage All awesome suggestions! I really appreciate your input, Ryan and Barbara! 💜 4y

Cinfhen Such an awesome idea!!! You‘ve got great suggestions already!! I need to think a bit...my brain is seriously frazzled at the moment 😬 4y

MrBook @IamIamIam , looks like you might be covered! 😁 If you want any others, maybe something Jack the Ripper-related, like Portrait of a Killer and Lyndsay Faye‘s Dust and Shadow.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed

IamIamIam @MrBook Thanks!! I was happy to see you had read Homer & Langley!! I'm hoping to keep this going as a class so I'm definitely looking to stockpile ideas! 😁 Hope you're well, Jason! 4y

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