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
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In...
Water for elephants : a novel
Gruen, Sara
Paper Book
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits - the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth - a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night...
The thirteenth tale
Setterfield, Diane
Ebook
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 . . . ...

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