It’s my turn to pick a book for my book club and I’m in the mood for something that centers around a moral dilemma and will make good conversation at book club.
Looking for something that’s realistic fiction and is a page turner. I have read most of Jodi Picoult’s books and I liked the court room trial aspect where you got both points of view and that there’s a twist.
Thank you!
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan has a main character who is backed into a corner in making a moral decision in 1985 Ireland centered around the Magdalena Laundries. It takes place
at Christmas too. In about a two hour book club you could probably read it aloud and discuss it.
Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Sentence – Christina Dalcher
Next of Kin – Kia Abdullah (a lot of her books might work)
Two Little Girls – Laura Jarratt
Anything by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Ursula Le Guin’s short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
*King’s Ransom* by Ed McBain. Part of the 87th Precinct series of police procedurals.
A rising businessman is on the verge of closing a deal that will make him a fortune. This is what he’s been working toward his entire life. All his money is on the line.
Until his son is kidnapped–and the kidnappers demand a ransom high enough to kill the deal.
Then it’s discovered that the kidnappers didn’t get his son, they got his *chauffeur’s son*. There’s the moral dilemma. Does he pay the ransom for a child that’s not his own?
The book was adapted into the Japanese film *High and Low* by director Akira Kurosawa.
Defending Jacob has this and is also a legal thriller.