A novel for my mother and I

[Waldo]

With summer here, and my mother on her summer break, she being a teacher, she proposed that we read a book in unison and then discuss it when we both finish. The only thing is I have no clue what book we would both enjoy. She doesn't read as much as she did so I'm totally unsure what book we could enjoy reading. I know finding a book to her liking without knowing what she likes in the first place is a hard task, but I was wondering is any of you have a great novel you think she and I would enjoy reading and afterwards discussing. Thank you.

[Seasider]

Would you say A novel for I? So why change the grammar just because your mother is included? It's a very common mistake, but so easy to avoid. Take the other person out of the sentence and try it.

As for a novel...The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Atonement by Ian McEwan The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow for starters

[Waldo]

Oh grammar, but thank you nonetheless for your recommendations, I'll surely look into them.

[dfloyd]

making the pronoun which follows being the object of a preposition. A more common error occurs when a pronoun is the subject understood. This is called an elliptical clause. "She is different than I." I is the subject of the verb am which is understood. Everyone makes grammatical errors once in a while, but they are important since they immediately telegraph your level of education.

[Seasider]

I have frequently spotted this error in the speeches of Cabinet Ministers and other well known public speakers who, presumably, have had a good education.

Although your analysis is correct, when I taught English to British schoolchildren, I formed the impression that they were uncomfortable with the pronoun me and thought I sounded more proper and correct.

[joelavine]

Recent novels I've enjoyed that you and your mom might enjoy reading together include Eventide by Kent Haruf and Three Junes by Julia Glass.

[TheFifthElement]

A few thoughts:
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Mr Golightly's Holiday - Salley Vickers

all great summer reads :)

[m2vihand]

The Little Prince or Animal farm. The drawback of these is length.

[Greta Kin]

Although your analysis is correct, when I taught English to British schoolchildren, I formed the impression that they were uncomfortable with the pronoun me and thought I sounded more proper and correct.

Who's teaching whom?

[Seasider]

Not certain how to read your comment. I looked at my post and it is perhaps not clear that the second I in the sentence refers to the preposition [/I]. Not to me, the teacher.

[Bob_Robinson]

You should really tell everyone a little bit about yourselves before asking for suggestions. I can list a few that I liked and think are ripe for discussion but I'm not sure how much help they'll be to you:

VALIS by Philip K. Dick
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Hakuri Murakami
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by ?
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy