GIPL Book Club - 2014 Selections

Reading list from the 2014 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield-Fisher

Updated September 22, 2025
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Grand Island Public Library
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Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua.
Paper Book
"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama "African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe." --Toni Morrison "A...
My year with Eleanor : a memoir
Hancock, Noelle
Paper Book
"I honestly loved this book." --Jim Norton, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Your Guts "Eleanor taught Noelle that, first and foremost, Courage Takes Practice. Her yearlong quest to face her terrors, great and small, is moving, enriching, and hilarious--we readers...
We were the Mulvaneys
Oates, Joyce Carol
Ebook
An Oprah Book Club® selection A New York Times Notable Book The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976--an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home-...
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Winchester, Simon.
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture
The light between oceans : a novel
Stedman, M. L.
Paper Book
The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front...

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