Where?
Character Mash Up
What did they Say?
Classics
How did we feel?
100

Milan, Italy

What is Beneath a Scarlet Sky?
100

Lucy Hutton, Joshua Templeton, Danny Fletcher

What is The Hating Game? 

100

“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn't her fault she'd been alone. Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.”

What is Where the Crawdads Sing? 

100

Told through the eyes of loveable rogues Scout and Jem, it also created one of literature’s most beloved heroes – Atticus Finch, a man determined to right the racial wrongs of the Deep South.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird? 

100
A New York Times Best Seller, Goodreads rated this book as a 3.92 out of 800,000 people who read it. The Finer Things Book Club rated it a 2.4.

What is the Goldfinch?

200

Alaska

What is The Great Alone?

200

Ellie Mack, Laurel Mack, Hannah Mack

What is Then She was Gone?

200

“She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?”

What is the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"

200

The author who wrote this book was a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and used his experiences to write about a dog named Buck who becomes a leader of the wild. With themes exploring nature and the struggle for existence in the frozen Alaskan landscape.

What is The Call of the Wild? 

200
This Book about a dating show, was the Finer Things Club least favorite book of all time. 

What is One to Watch? 

300

Japan

What is Fifty Words for Rain? 

300

Paul Kalanithi, Lucy Kalanithi, Emma Hayward

What is When Breath Becomes Air?

300

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”

What is the Beekeeper of Aleppo? 

300

This timeless tale captured the hearts of children everywhere with its fantastical world through the wardrobe, full of fauns, dwarves and anthropomorphised animals.

What is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

300

This Romance Book had the most discrepancy within a book club where one person rated it as a one while another person rated it as a five. 

What is the Hating Game? 

400

The Bahamas

What is The Golden Hour? 

400

Alix Chamberlain, Emira "Mira" Tucker, Louise Chamberlain

What is Such a Fun Age? 

400

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”

What is Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine?

400

A psychiatric ward in Oregon is ruled by a tyrannical head nurse, but when a rebellious patient arrives her regime is thrown into disarray. A story of the imprisoned battling the establishment.

What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

400

This book, set in Germany during World War 2, Kara was the only one to rate it with five stars.

What is The Book Thief?

500

Ireland

What is The Guest List?

500

Bea Schumacher, Marin Mendoza, Lauren Mathers.

What is One to Watch?

500

“If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”

What is a Gentleman in Moscow?

500

A coming-of-age tale of teenage rebellion, set in a winner-takes-all world of drive-ins, drag races and switchblades. It created an anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide –  ‘Stay gold Ponyboy… stay gold’.

What is The Outsiders? 

500

This was a book that Cassie picked out but only Jordan read and Cassie read reluctantly but Colleen's cousin loved it. Awkward Finer Things Club Meeting. 

What is the Good Omens?