The Next Best Book Club discussion

Name a thing or a place or a theme or whatever and the person below you has to recommend a book with that in it and then name something else for the person below them.

I'll go first...

Cannibalism

Survivor Type by Stephen King (short story)

Inter-racial marriage.

The Waste Lands by Stephen King (Eddie Dean and Susannah Holmes-Dean)

Schizophrenia

Probably something by H.P. Lovecraft....G2G

For Schizophrenia -

Lowboy by John Wray

Greek Mythology

Witch Princess by Dorothy Johnston

Government enforced sterilization.

Eugenics And the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Demark, Sweden, Norway, and Findland by Nils Roll-Hansen

Tahiti

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville

alien invasion

A sure bet is The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

synesthesia

A Mango-Shaped Space

Popcorn

Do they have to have read the book and genuinely recommend it?

Guinness World Records (worlds largest popcorn ball)

An elephant

The White Bone

A tropical vacation with a murder....

The George Eliot Murders by Edith Skom
Professor Beth Austin is an expert on 19th century novels and a born sleuth. Taking along George Eliot's Middlemarch on her Hawaiian vacation was pure serendipity, for Beth never dreamed the classic novel could help her solve a crime. Stumbling upon a gruesome murder, Beth observes Eliot's brilliant character studies coming to life in those close to the crime.


Chess-themed fiction

Alice in Wonderland
Not sure if this counts, however we all familiar with the Queen of Hearts and co.

A jigsaw

Master Pieces: The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles by Chris McCann

refugees

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

book set in 19th century Europe

Persuasion by Jane Austen

A book about a smart cat

Any of the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries by Rita Mae Brown.

How about a smart dog?

Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa

a bottle in the ocean

Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

a book set in Canada

Let's Kill Uncle by Rohan O'Grady

dystopian novel

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Tea(iced or hot)

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Hijabs

On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World by Jason Burke

Pre-teen girl detective

Figured this one out when you posted Flavia de Luce in the character game!
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

How about a novel centered around cooking

Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani (not strictly a book about cooking but lots of cooking goes on.)

A novel about knitting

Fair enough! I'm gonna have to take a pass on your subject idea though :-)

The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

A novel set in France.

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

A novel set in London

A Taste For Death by P.D. James

A novel set in Montana.

Too tough? How about The Horse Whisperer

OK, here's another one:

A novel set in Dublin.

The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy (It's partially set there)

A novel set in one of the Greek Islands?

The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart

OK, this should be easy: a book about an autistic boy.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

A novel about a tomboy

Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Vanishing Victim

A novel set in WWII

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (my current read)

A novel set in WWI?

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (I just read this one).

A novel set during the Civil War.

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (partially set during the Civil War)

A novel set in New York

Heat Wave by Richard Castle

A novel with pirates.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman


A novel about cars or the car industry

Wheels by Arthur Hailey

A novel with a werewolf

Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King

Advanced technologies

(cutting in to say I really like this game, and love seeing the diverse topics and novels listed!)

Partnership by Anne McCaffrey

novel about airplanes

Airframe by Michael Crichton

A novel about a nurse in training

'Anything else but love'

Ankita - do you have another recommendation?

Why?

So someone else can answer it?