Westport Public Library BOOK blog

Last month I wrote about the popularity of Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, a book sure to become a “classic read.” But every month we have a few clubs that always choose a classic or older title for their book club selection. Just recently several clubs read The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. A Pulitzer Prize winner in 1932, this moving story of a farmer and his wife is a wonderful tale of one man’s journey though life in China with his family. Pearl Buck spent most of her life living in China and truly captured the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people over the years.

James Agee’s A Death in the Family, a Pulitzer winner in 1958, was also a recent book club choice. This account of one man’s unexpected death and the impact it has on his family is another great classic read. If your club can’t decide on which one of the latest acclaimed titles to read, how about revisiting one of these older titles? Copies are always available through interlibrary loan, but you might find you just have a copy around the house. If not, contact me.