GIPL Book Club - 2017 Selections

Reading List from the 2017 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
  • Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

Updated September 22, 2025
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And the mountains echoed
Hosseini, Khaled.
Paper Book
George Washington's secret six : the spy ring that saved the American Revolution
Kilmeade, Brian
Paper Book
When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied - thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called teh Culper Spy Ring. Washington realized that he...
The enchantress of Florence
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself Mogor dell'Amore, the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess,...
Being mortal medicine and what matters in the end
Gawande, Atul.
Paper Book
Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of childbirth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the face of our inevitable aging and death, what it can do often runs counter to what it should do. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and...

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