Seriously, I'll join in...
Jane Austen, obviously. I'm an expert. That thread would be perhaps on our girly board. Stella? Austen only wrote 6 books and died early. Easy peasy.
But if you'd like to do some non-fiction I'll put my glasses on. I have DIY and cooking books. I'm joking... I have How to Dance, The Amateur Astronomer and Games to Play By Yourself. Just for reference... Two shelves of travel books, 3 of poetry, 2 of religion. Sorry, but you need to review non-fiction, read it over and over. You can't debate factual books, can you?
Book Clubs are for fiction, no? Novel readers?
Just finished "How to be Idle" by Tom Hodgkinson, lovely little book full of quotations from Byron Blake et al on the importance of sleep, dreams, drinking, slow sex, yawning, lazy conversation etc. Highly recommended.
Also in the middle of a huge paperback novel: "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow", Peter Hoeg, translated from Danish 1992. Big fat lovely and truly amazingly descriptive. I find myself in awe when reading a book translated to English, reading something done in another language is incredible. Loved Anna Kareina for instance. Russians, Northerners and so on are so emotional.
I tend to keep non fiction (reference) books in hardcover
and I always give away fiction/paperbacks.
xxxL
with glasses on
ex libris
My fave = poetry
Secrets of the Heart, Kahlil Gibran
The Enchanting Houri