20-Something Title Swap

Monday, January 30, 2012. 7 PM.

Looking for a great read? Share the titles of your favorite books with the rest of the 20-Something group. You tell us your favorites and we’ll tell you ours.

20-Something Title Swap

June 6, 2011

See what books other 20-Somethings recommended.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Monday, June 28, 2010.  7 PM.

A novel set against three decades of Afghanistan’s history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban tells the story of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen–year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.

Brave New World

Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 1 PM & 7:30 PM.

The story of a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability.

Child 44

Tuesday, July 21, 2009.  7 PM.

“During the terror of Stalin's last days, a secret policeman becomes a detective stalking a serial killer in a debut novel from a shockingly talented 28-year-old Brit (Kirkus Reviews).”

Her Fearful Symmetry

Monday, November 22, 2010. 7 PM.

"Like its predecessor, The Time Traveler's Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry has a plot both vividly original and yet evocative of time–etched genres; in this case, the neo–gothic. The story involves Julia and Valentina, seemingly typical American teens who have inherited their aunt's London flat. The apartment, as it happens, sits beside Highgate Cemetery, a shadowy burial place that possesses a presence of its own. To this strange mix, Niffenegger adds a medley of neighbors with whole battalions of obsessions and other disorders. The plot is engulfing, the characters unforgettable (From the Publisher)."

Little Brother

Tuesday, September 20, 2011.  7 PM.

“Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system … But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.  When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself (From the Publisher).”

Never Let Me Go

Monday, March 5, 2012. 7 PM

The students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them. Only, slowly, do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny.

Neverwhere

Monday, January 17, 2011. 7 PM.

"… A wild and mesmerizing story set in a bizarre and chilling underground London. Neverwhere begins innocently enough: It's the story of Richard Mayhew, a plain man with a good heart. Unhappy in love and in life, Richard is thrust into a dark and evil world when he stops to help a young girl he finds bleeding in the street. Now Richard has much more than work and girlfriend dilemmas on his mind - now he's wanted by two very evil, powerful, and nasty mercenaries who like to think that they are, in fact, rather gentlemanly. Lyrical, humorous, and horrifying, Neverwhere is a fantastic novel (From the Publisher)."

Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes

Monday, March 22, 2010.  7 PM.

An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all–powerful madman.

The Book Thief

Wednesday, January 27, 2010.  7 PM.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel - a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

The Cypress House

Monday, November 7, 2011. 7 PM.

WWII vet, Arlen Wagner, and young friend Paul Brickhill are traveling by train to a new CCC camp in the Florida Keys when Arlen’s supernatural sense tells him they have to get off the train if they want to stay alive. They find themselves at Cypress House and right in the middle of a vipers’ nest of small-town corruption and misery.

The Fortunate Pilgrim

Monday, March 14, 2011.  7 PM.

At the head of the Angeluzzi-Corbo family stands Lucia Santa, wife, widow and mother of two families. It is her formidable will that steers them through the Depression. But even she cannot prevent the violence which follows.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Monday, August 9, 2010.  7 PM.

Join Douglas Adams’s hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, gettig into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc.

The Magicians

Monday, May 2, 2011. 7 PM.

"A thrilling and original coming–of– age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he's still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren't black and white and power comes at a terrible price (From the Publisher)."