GIPL Book Club - 2008 Selections

Reading list from the 2008 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
  • Family Man by Calvin Trillin
  • My Cat Spit McGee by Willie Morris
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
  • Christmas of the Photograph Records by Mari Sandoz

Updated September 24, 2025
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Nineteen minutes : a novel
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things, pens her most riveting book yet with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever...
Water for elephants
Gruen, Sara.
Paper Book
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man in the Depression, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth -- a world filled with...
The thirteenth tale
Setterfield, Diane.
Paper Book
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
Egan, Timothy.
Paper Book
This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history--the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression--from the shadows. Following a dozen families and their...
The Persian Pickle Club
Dallas, Sandra.
Paper Book
Bel canto
Patchett, Ann.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth.

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