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Book Choices of Local Book Groups
The following are books that local book groups have chosen for their discussions in 2011. If a book listed does not link to the GEPL catalog, it is because we do not have copies of it.
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
36 arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein
Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel
Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking and Other Natural Disasters by Lenore Look
And then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Art Thief by Noah Charney
Babylon Rolling by Amanada Boyden
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong
The Blessing of a B Minus by Wendy Mogel
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag
Bolter by Frances Osborne
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
By Fire, By Water by Mitchell Kaplan
The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler
Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
City of Thieves by David Benioff
City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell
Cleopatra by Stacy Shiff
Clock Without Hands by Guy Burt
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl
Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Day After Night by Anita Diamont
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Dog Diaries by Betsy Byars
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
DRACULA by Bram Stoker
Driven to Distraction by Edward Hallowell
Dune by Frank Herbert
Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise
Eleanor Roosevelt, Reluctant First Lady by Lorena Hickok
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
End of the Spear by Steve Saint
Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Faithful Place by Tana French
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
For the King by Catherine Delors
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Fragile by Lisa Unger
Franklin and Eleanor: an extraordinary marriage by Hazel Rowley
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Girl of the Limberlost by Wladyslaw T. Benda
The Girl who Chased the Moon by Sarah Allen
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Half Broke Horses: a true-life novel by Jeannette Walls
Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes
How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills
How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gill
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jacob's Ladder by Donald McCaig
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Knight and the Dragon by Tomie DePaola
The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer
The Last Wife of Henry VIIIby Carolly Erickson
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Let's do Nothing by Tony Fucile
Letters to Malcolm by C.S. Lewis
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
The Longest Season by Andrea Levy
Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
Manhunt: the Twelve-day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
The Man Who Turned into Himself by David Ambrose
Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gullard
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Next Thing on my List by Jill Smolinski
One Day by David Nicholls
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Pearl of China by Anchee Min
The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Philosophy Made Simple by Robert Hellenga
Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
Pictures from our Vacation by Lynne Rae Perkins
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer: the Life of William Dampier by Diana and Michael Preston
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg
Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp by Christopher Browning
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
Rice Mother by Rani, Manicka
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle
Room by Emma Donoghue
Salt: A World History by Mark Kulansky
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
Sarah's Key by Tatiana Rosnay
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story by Peter Copeland
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Space Between Us by Thrity N. Umrigar
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science by John Ratey
Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Star Island by Carl HIaasen
Stations West by Allison Amend
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi
Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Allen
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
Teen's Guide to World Domination by Josh Shipp
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah
This Little Mommy Stayed Home by Samantha Wilde
This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection by Carol Burnett
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David MItchell
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Morenson
Three Junes by Julia Glass
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
The Transformation of Things by Jillian Cantor
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Where Men Win Glory by JOn Krakauer
Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley
The Wild Girl by Jim Fergus
Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America by John Avlon
Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr
The Wishing Trees by John Shors
Without a Map by Meredith Hall
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman