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Book Choices of Local Book Groups


The following are books that local book groups have chosen for their discussions in 2010.

Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel

Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

An Arsonist's guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke

Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Challenging the culture of corruption by Patrick Collins

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Commoner: a novel by John Burnham Schwartz

Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time by Mark Haddon

Devil's Queen: a novel of Catherine de Medici by Jeanne Kalogridis

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Eve by Elissa Elliott

Fault Lines by Nancy Huston

Finding Alice by Melody Carlson

First Family by David Baldacci

Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly

Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Gertruda's Oath by Mike Stolowitzky

Girl With no Shadow by Joanne Harris

Girls from Ames: a Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Guernsey LIterary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Healing of America: a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care by T. R. Reid

Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow

Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance

Invisible by Paul Auster

It Sucked and then I Cried by Heather B. Armstrong

Journey From the Land of No by Ruya Hakkakiyan

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Julia's Chocolates by Cathy Lamb

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Love and Summer by William Trevor

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland

Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean

Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

Molokai by Alan Brennert

Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert Edsel

Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton

Mountain Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

One True Thing by Anna Quindlen

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury

Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Restless by William Boyd

Ride of Our Lives by Mike Leonard

Road, The by Cormac McCarthy

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

Shack by William P. Young

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

Song's for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau

Space Between Us by Thrity N. Umrigar

Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz

Stray Affections by Charlene Ann Baumbich

Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Swimsuit by James Patterson

Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer

Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Trees by Conrad Richter

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy

Wedding in December by Anita Shreve

Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips

Wolf Totem by Rong Jiang

The Women by T.C. Boyle

Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Zookeeper's Wife: a War Story by Diane Ackerman