GIPL Book Club - 2014 Selections

Reading list from the 2014 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield-Fisher

Updated September 22, 2025
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GIPL Book Club - 2014 Selections

Reading list from the 2014 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield-Fisher

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Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua.
Paper Book
"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama "African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe." --Toni Morrison "A...
My year with Eleanor : a memoir
Hancock, Noelle
Paper Book
"I honestly loved this book." --Jim Norton, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Your Guts "Eleanor taught Noelle that, first and foremost, Courage Takes Practice. Her yearlong quest to face her terrors, great and small, is moving, enriching, and hilarious--we readers...
We were the Mulvaneys
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
An Oprah Book Club® selection A New York Times Notable Book The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976--an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home-...
Just what kind of mother are you?
Daly, Paula
Paper Book
Lisa Kallisto--overwhelmed working mother--is the not-so-perfect model of the modern woman. She holds down a busy job running an animal shelter, she cares for three demanding children, and she worries that her marriage isn't getting enough attention. During an impossibly hectic week, Lisa takes...
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Winchester, Simon.
Other
A New York Times Notable Book   The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary--and literary history. The making of the OED was one of the...
Once upon a town : the miracle of the North Platte Canteen
Greene, Bob.
Paper Book
In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and syndicated columnist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today -- a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a...
The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
Kiernan, Denise
Paper Book
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. "The best kind of nonfiction: marvelously reported,...
The light between oceans : a novel
Stedman, M. L.
Paper Book
The spectacular New York Times bestseller and major motion picture about a lighthouse keeper and his wife is "a beautifully delineated tale of love and loss, right and wrong, and what we will do for the happiness of those most dear" (The Boston Globe). ...
Women of the silk
Tsukiyama, Gail.
Paper Book
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever...
The widower's tale
Glass, Julia
Paper Book
In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As...
Jamaica Inn
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF MURDER, MYSTERY AND PASSION, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner' THE TIMES 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Jamaica...
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