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 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring...
The thirteenth tale
Setterfield, Diane
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller "Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story."--People "Eerie and fascinating."--USA TODAY Sometimes, when you open the door...
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
Egan, Timothy.
Paper Book
This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history--the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression--from the shadows. Following a dozen families and their...
The Persian Pickle Club
Dallas, Sandra
Paper Book
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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