Book Group Titles 2011

Fiction Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Scent of Jasmine by Jude Devereaux The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah One Day by David Nichols Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez True Grit by Charles Portis The Three Weismanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi Nonfiction Best American Sports Writing Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Just Kids by Patty Smith

Past Year's Selections

Fiction White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Case Histories by Kate Atkinson The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks March by Geraldine Brooks Oxygen by Carol Casella Little Bee by Chris Cleave Summer Blow-Out by Claire Cook Tall Grass by Sandra Dallas The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson Sarah's Key by Tatiana DeRosnay The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff The Gathering by Anne Enright Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques Still Alice by Lisa Genova A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Tinkers by Paul Harding Loving Frank by Nancy Horan The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Piano Teacher by Janice Lee The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz The Hightest Tide by Jim Lynch Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo They Did it With Love by Kate Morgenroth Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O'Brien The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta Lark & Termite by Jayne Phillips Lush Life by Richard Price Vision in White by Nora Roberts The Soloist by Mark Salzman Push by Sapphire Peony in Love by Lisa See Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellars The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer On Beauty by Zadie Smith The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout The Broken Shore by Peter Temple Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrogar Have Mercy On Us All by Fred Vargas Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The Shack by William P. Young Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Nonfiction The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Eye of My Heart by Barbara Graham Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Zaatar Days and Henna Nights by Haliha Masood Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan The Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriques Tell Me Where It Hurts by Nick Trout The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls   Biographies The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas Without a Map by Meredith Hall Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama