Not Quite MENSA Book Club (order in which they were read)
Explore the Not Quite MENSA Book Club's reading list in order—discover the brilliant books this intellectual group has enjoyed. Perfect for book lovers seeking curated, thought-provoking reads.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.
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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan
Chinese-American Olivia Laguni has a battle of wills with her half-sister and lifelong nemesis, Kwan Li, whose haunting predictions and implementation of the secret senses link their family's struggles to the challenges of their ancestors. Reprint.
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Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : a novel
by Rebecca Wells
A NOVEL ABOUT THE COMPLEX BONDS BETWEEN A MOTHER AND A DAUGHTER.
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
by Fannie Flagg
The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe returns with a heartwarming comic novel about America's most popular female newscaster, and the hometown that tells her story. Reprint.
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.
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Still Life With Rice
by Helie Lee
In this radiant memoir of her grandmother's life, Lee recreates a culture that is both seductively exotic and strangely familiar. Lee's desire to recover the family's history, as well as to understand the intricate weave of her own identity, results in the exploration of universal issues such as the complex nature of family relations and the rapidly changing lives of women in this century. of photos.
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The Color of Water
by James McBride
'James McBride evokes his childhood trek across the great racial divide with the kind of power and grace that touches and uplifts all our hearts.' - Bebe Moore Campbell 'A triumph...The two stories, son's and mother's, beautifully juxtaposed, strike a graceful note at a time of racial polarization.' - The New York Times Book Review
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
None of her professional sound bites and pat homilies works for her personal life: she knows only how to translate what others want to say.".