GIPL Book Club - 2011 Selections

Reading list from the 2011 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
  • The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan
Updated September 24, 2025
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Half broke horses : a true-life novel
Walls, Jeannette
Paper Book
Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere. "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."...
Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet
Ford, Jamie.
Paper Book
"Sentimental, heartfelt....the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don't...
The zookeeper's wife : a war story
Ackerman, Diane
Paper Book
A true story--as powerful as Schindler's List--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
The alchemist
Coelho, Paulo
Paper Book
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now...

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