Hello, I am in a book club we just started with my family. Including my cousins and sisters, and am in need of suggestions for books. The youngest in the club is 15 I think so I’d prefer if the books didn’t have anything too explicit/fucked up in them. Anyone got any great non-explicit book suggestions? Thanks in advance!
by rubygrac
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[Nothing to See Here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49086091) by Kevin Wilson (novel on childcare and family)
[Killers of the Flower Moon](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35954609) by David Grann (nonfiction. Movie adaptation out soon!)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
personally i haven’t read the book i’ve only seen the movie so i’m not sure if the movie was made more family friendly compared
The [ALA’s Alex Awards](https://www.ala.org/yalsa/alex-awards#Previous) feature “books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18”. This should be exactly what you are looking for.
Your family book club sounds so nice! Have fun!
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (it’s part of a trilogy, but can be read as a standalone)
Ella Minnow Pea
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Braiding Sweetgrass
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Spellman Files
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Mad Honey (most Picoult books)
Jurassic Park (most stuff by Crichton)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (and other Kingsolver books)
We Were Liars
The Firekeepers Daughter
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
Holes (technically middle grade, but my husband and I loved this maybe more than our kids.)
Edit: you’d be pretty safe with any of the Reese Book Club Picks or the Read with Jenna Book Club picks. Reese has YA picks every few months too.
https://reesesbookclub.com/article/4eRlfCOXueqPrm6ZnQpzwl
https://www.today.com/shop/read-with-jenna
Maybe PBS great American reads also, but they may be too uncontemporary for you/older members may have read a lot of these already:
https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/
{{The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave}}
It is a suspenseful novel without any explicit or disturbing themes
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Grandmother-Asked-Me-to-Tell-You-Shes-Sorry/Fredrik-Backman/9781501115073
My grandmother asked me to tell you she’s Sorry…
Bring tissue because you will be laughing and crying.
fair and tender ladies by Lee Smith. Mc is around 12(?) when it starts and she’s close to 80 by the end. there’s one bit where she runs off up the mountain with a travelling scoundrel, and she has a very iffy brother who appears briefly. but nothing too graphic or gratuitous, imo
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones.
The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge. Also published as Gullstruck Island.
The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy by James Anderson.