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
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things, pens her most riveting book yet with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever...
Water for elephants : a novel
Gruen, Sara.
Paper Book
Over 10 million copies sold worldwide! * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla #1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller ...
The thirteenth tale
Setterfield, Diane.
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Thirteenth Tale is part contemporary, part historical with mysterious threads about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling weaving the two together. All children mythologize their birth . . . ...
Bel canto : a novel
Patchett, Ann
Paper Book
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award * Winner of the Orange Prize * National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century "Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." --Washington Post Book World Ann Patchett's...

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