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
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In...
Water for elephants : a novel
Gruen, Sara
Paper Book
Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring...
The thirteenth tale
Setterfield, Diane
Paper Book
When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and...
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
Egan, Timothy.
Paper Book
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.   The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing...

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