Alison,

It's so hard to gauge the group's taste, of course ... so I'll kick this discussion off by getting a few easy ones to consider out of the way. Perhaps your group has read most of these?

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (if the group hasn't read this, start here, of course)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (it's probably too long?)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Howards End by E.M. Forster
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

How about something by Saul Bellow? (Herzog, Seize the Day, The Adventures of Augie March). Or Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner?

Again, with the classics, your mileage my vary!
Jon

Jon Phillips
Editor & Publisher, Bookmarks