GIPL Book Club - 2009 Selections

Reading list from the 2009 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert

Updated September 24, 2025
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GIPL Book Club - 2009 Selections

Reading list from the 2009 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert

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The last lecture
Pausch, Randy
Paper Book
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned--about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have--in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the...
A thousand splendid suns
Hosseini, Khaled.
Paper Book
1 New York Times bestselling author. Main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Literary Guild. Both born in Afghanistan a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family Mariam and Laila are brought together by war by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever...
The bluest eye
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME * From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. "So precise, so...
Memoirs of a geisha
Golden, Arthur
Paper Book
This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life behind the rice-paper screens, and summons up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history.
Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
Larson, Erik
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history--from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City "A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the...
Sarah's key
Rosnay, Tatiana de
Paper Book
Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. But Sarah has locked her brother in their favorite hiding place and kept the key, thinking she will return soon. ...
The art of racing in the rain : a novel
Stein, Garth
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein--a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately...
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