GIPL Book Club - 2009 Selections

Reading list from the 2009 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert

Updated September 24, 2025
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GIPL Book Club - 2009 Selections

Reading list from the 2009 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert

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The last lecture
Pausch, Randy.
Paper Book
Professor Randy Pausch's moving and inspirational book based on his extraordinary last lecture, a global phenomenon now seen by over 25 million people all over the world.On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 at Carnegie Mellon...
A thousand splendid suns
Hosseini, Khaled.
Paper Book
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family,...
The bluest eye
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME * From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. "So precise, so...
Memoirs of a geisha : a novel
Golden, Arthur
Paper Book
An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.nbsp;nbsp; Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta...
84, Charing Cross Road
Hanff, Helene
Paper Book
"Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road." -- Medium.com A heartwarming love story about people who love books...
Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
Larson, Erik.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history--from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City "A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the...
Goodnight, Nebraska : a novel
McNeal, Tom.
Paper Book
At the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother's boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben's Mobil Station, Frmka's Superette, and a sign that says The Wages of Sin is Hell. This is...
Sarah's key
Rosnay, Tatiana de
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture! From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by...
The art of racing in the rain : a novel
Stein, Garth
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein--a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately...
A Christmas beginning
Perry, Anne.
Paper Book
The fifth in Anne Perry's series of charming Christmas novellas. Runcorn, Monk's ex-boss and a bachelor, travels to Anglesey hoping to stave off the loneliness of the Christmas season and the memories of Melisande, the woman he fell desperately in love with in DARK ASSASSIN. His...
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