Goodreads: Fraternity and Sorority Books
 

If you are on Goodreads, won't you vote for your favorite books about fraternities and sororities?

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...and_Sororities

Did you vote for it on Goodreads? These lists are good promotion for those people writing about fraternity and sorority history and culture.

Yes!

You might want to add Sorority Sisters by Claudia Welch. It's pretty good, and represented a lot of different facets of (NPC) sorority life well, I thought.

Ditto on this.

You can add it! The list is user populated.

Southern Ladies And Gentlemen, by Florence King

PS it wouldn't add it for some reason.

LOVE Florence King; some of her stuff is hilarious! I haven't read "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen", though so thanks for the heads up, MaryPoppins!

Another Florence King fan checking in! Loved her
Southern Ladies and Gentlemen and Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?. You know the characters, it's so good to see somebody describe them so well.

Just got Sorority Sisters from the library. Is the author a sorority alumna?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...fraternity-man

Written by a good friend and founding father of the UCF Pi Kapp chapter! :)

Claudia Welch is an Alpha Phi. I believe she is from USC.

Oh I know exactly what you mean! Have you read: When Sisterhood was in Flower (fiction) (1982); Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1985); Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989); and, With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy (1992)? I like to think of her as a female P.J. O'Rourke.

Oh My Gosh! I literally just finished that book and I totally loved it! :D

Yes, she is an Alpha Phi.

MaryPoppins, I rank Florence King up there with John Kennedy Toole for laugh-out-loud moments. Love the passage from SLAG where she talks about Uncle Cary taking his cat to the vet.

That is a good one. My favorite is where she explains"Rocks" and "Dear Old Things," my Grandmother used both to great advantage whenever necessary.

I wish I could name some good titles involving (fictional) NPHC orgs. Sigh.

Truth moment? I thought for sure people would be voting for nonfiction titles.

I just finished Sorority Sisters. I've got to rain on this parade...I just didn't like it. The chapter-by-chapter rotating first person writing style was confusing...I kept going back to check the chapter titles to remind myself which character was narrating. It also annoys me when an author writes witty, sarcastic banter that isn't really very witty, then self-congratulates by having characters comment on how funny the speaker is.

The parts I liked were: describing Monday night formal dinner/meetings, the clueless housemother, the panty raid, and the ongoing feud with the sorority next door. I would have liked a lot more of that, and less "yet another sister dumped by yet another guy and now their lives are lonely and sad...and they're still sad years later" and "here's where each sister is sitting at the table and what they're wearing" and getting a semester-by-semester report on who was rooming with whom, where their room was located, etc. There really wasn't a plot...it was a "bed to bed" story.

See, I mixed up titles. Years ago, I read Sorority Sisters by Tajuana Butler and Sister Secrets by Breggie James. I can't really remember either of them but I remember enjoying them when I read them for the first time. Did you read either of those? I'd probably have to re-read them to remember why I liked them so much but I'm going to dedicate myself to ATSB Season 4 once this paper is done. ;)

Don't think I read Sister Secrets, but I read/own Sorority Sisters (that's the one with the girl with the triangle earrings on the cover?) IMO that story was good but completely predictable and couldve been the same story without the Greek life aspect.

There's also "Be My Sorority Sister Under Pressure" but I forget the author.

You KNOW I'm there for ATSB. In retrospect, I may have been inspired to write my rush/intake story bc of it. I'd find it hard to write a fictional story removed from my own org, but I've considered writing a series. So maybe look out for it?