GIPL Book Club - 2016 Selections

Reading List from the 1026 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
  • The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

Updated September 22, 2025
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GIPL Book Club - 2016 Selections

Reading List from the 1026 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
  • The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

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Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
Larson, Erik
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania "Both terrifying and enthralling."--Entertainment Weekly"Thrilling, dramatic and powerful."...
Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the lowly
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Paper Book
Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their...
A man called Ove : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life." --People The #1 New York Times bestseller about the grumpy old man next door that's an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life...
The wild parrots of Telegraph Hill : a love story ... with wings
Bittner, Mark.
Paper Book
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hillis the inspiring story of how one man found his life’s work—and true love—among a gang of wild parrots roosting in one of America’s most picturesque urban settings. Mark Bittner was down on his luck. He’d gone to San Francisco at the...
The meaning of names : a novel
Shoemaker, Karen Gettert
Paper Book
2014 OMAHA READS SELECTION 2016 ONE BOOK, ONE NEBRASKA WINNER Stuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many...
Go set a watchman : a novel
Lee, Harper
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestseller "Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades...    -- New York Times (Opinion Pages) A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades...
The little Paris bookshop : a novel
George, Nina
Paper Book
Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own?   Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel...
All the light we cannot see : a novel
Doerr, Anthony
Ebook
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller...
Plainsong
Haruf, Kent.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller. "A novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader." - New York Times Book Review. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the...
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