GIPL Book Club - 2021 Selections

Reading List from the 2021 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Updated September 22, 2025
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The giver of stars
Moyes, Jojo
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER |  A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK   "A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together." --Reese Witherspoon   From the author of the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes<...
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Noah, Trevor
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * More than one million copies sold! A "brilliant" (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), "poignant" (Entertainment Weekly), "soul-nourishing" (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid  
Small great things : a novel
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In "the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written" (The Washington Post), the acclaimed author tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion--and doesn't offer easy answers. "A gripping courtroom drama . . ....
A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
Purnell, Sonia
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator...
The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz
Larson, Erik
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of...
American dirt
Cummins, Jeanine
Paper Book
"Extraordinary." --Stephen King "This book is not simply the great American novel; it's the great novel of las Americas. It's the great world novel This is the international story of our times. Masterful." --Sandra Cisneros ...
The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote
Weiss, Elaine F.
Paper Book
"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader"--Hillary Rodham Clinton Soon to Be a Major Television Event The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted...
Educated : a memoir
Westover, Tara
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University ...
The book of longings
Kidd, Sue Monk
Paper Book
"An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling." --Associated Press "A true masterpiece." --Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from...
Anxious people : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!...

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