GIPL Book Club - 2011 Selections

Reading list from the 2011 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
  • The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan
Updated September 24, 2025
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The help
Stockett, Kathryn
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film--a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Aibileen is a...
Scent of the missing :
Charleson, Susannah
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A "haunting meditation on trust, hope, and love" by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People). In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper...
Half broke horses : a true-life novel
Walls, Jeannette
Paper Book
Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. "Those old cows...
Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet
Ford, Jamie.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love."--Lisa...
The zookeeper's wife : a war story
Ackerman, Diane
Paper Book
The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain. A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism,...
The alchemist /
Coelho, Paulo
Paper Book
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few...

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