Book Choices of Local Book Groups

The following are books that local book groups have chosen for their discussions in 2008.

Ahabs Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama

Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George

Back Bay by William Martin

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

Body of Christopher Creed by Carl Plum-Ucci

Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Crashing Through by Robert Kurson

Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman

Dust by Martha Grimes

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish

Faith of My Fathers by John McCain

Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

History of Love by Nicole Krauss

I Love You Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Landsman by Peter Charles Melman

Last Chance Cafe by Linda Lael Miller

Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Left Behind by Tim LaHaye

Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

Manic by Terri Cheney

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker

One Sunday Morning by Amy Ephron

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Ultralongevity by Mark Liponis

White Masai by Corinne Hofmann