18. Talk about the “happiness set point.” In what ways do you essentially agree with or question this theory of human behavior?
Recommended Reading
Atwood, Margaret, Cat’s Eye
Bateson, Mary Catherine, With a Daughter’s Eye
Beard, Jo Ann, The Boys of My Youth
Blackburn, Julia, Daisy Bates in the Desert
Bloom, Amy, Love Invents Us
Carey, Peter, Oscar and Lucinda
Carr, Mary, Liars’ Club
Cather, Willa, O Pioneers
Chang, Pang-Me Natasha, Bound Feet and Western Dress
Chatwin, Bruce, The Songlines
Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street
Conway, Jill Ker, The Road from Coorain
Cooper, J. California, In Search of Satisfaction
Dillard, Annie, An American Childhood
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, The Mistress of Spices
Eliot, George, Middlemarch
Hamilton, Jane, The Book of Ruth
James, Henry, Portrait of a Lady
Munro, Alice, The Beggar Maid
Shigekuni, Julie, A Bridge Between Us
Ordering Information
Reading group support materials are available to support a vast array of interesting books from Anchor Books. To obtain information on reading guides, please call the Doubleday Marketing Hotline at 1-800-605-3406.
Reading Group Companion Guides now available from Anchor Books (subject to change):
ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood
ANNE FRANK: The Diary of a Young Girl edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler
THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY by Phillip Lopate
BOUND FEET AND WESTERN DRESS by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
A BRIDGE BETWEEN US by Julie Shigekuni
THE HEART AROUSED by David Whyte
THE HIDDEN WRITER by Alexandra Johnson
IN DEFENSE OF ELITISM by William A. Henry III
JANE HAMILTON (A Map of the World, The Book of Ruth)
J. CALIFORNIA COOPER: About the Author and Her Works
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ: About the Author and His Works
THE ROBBER BRIDE by Margaret Atwood
SCHOOLGIRLS by Peggy Orenstein
SHOT IN THE HEART by Mikal Gilmore
TALK DIRTY TO ME by Sallie Tisdale
THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe
THE WEDDING by Dorothy West
The Book Group Corner on the Internet
If you’re interested in learning more about book groups—how to start one, how to join one, or what they’re reading—find out all you need to know and more at our Book Group Corner on the Internet at http://www.bdd.com/read.
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey Page 21
