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2. The Next Thing on My List: A Novel
by Jill Smolinski
 (25 club reviews)
- 159 members reading this now
- 30 clubs reading this now
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- 18 members have read this book
Meet June Parker. She works for L.A. Rideshare, adores her rent-stabilized apartment in Santa Monica, and struggles with losing a few pesky pounds. But June’s life is about to change. After a dark turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a chili recipe, and a car accident in which her...
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3. Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen
 (108 club reviews)
- 215 members reading this now
- 50 clubs reading this now
- 19 members told 33 friends about this book.
- 64 members have read this book
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate...
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4. A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell
(15 club reviews)
- 145 members reading this now
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- 8 members have read this book
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.
It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand....
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8. The Cloister Walk
by Kathleen Norris
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- 145 members reading this now
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- 6 members have read this book
A New York Times Best Seller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"This is a remarkable piece of writing.... If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book becomes lectio divina, or holy reading."- The Boston Globe
Part memoir, part meditation, The Cloister Walk...
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9. The Year of Fog
by Michelle Richmond
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- 27 members reading this now
- 8 clubs reading this now
- 2 members have read this book
Now in Paperback
"Gripping…Grade: A.” The Washington Post
“Involving, heart-rending and immediately readable…Richmond captures the spirit of life in The City.” The San Francisco Examiner
Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancée...
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10. Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
(37 club reviews)
- 91 members reading this now
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- 45 members have read this book
'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license...records...
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15. A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
(73 club reviews)
- 81 members reading this now
- 98 clubs reading this now
- 3 members told 7 friends about this book.
- 42 members have read this book
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb...
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20. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield
(23 club reviews)
- 15 members reading this now
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- 12 members have read this book
Sometimes, when you open the door to thepast, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready...
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22. Cloud Atlas : A Novel
by David Mitchell
(6 club reviews)
- 4 members reading this now
- 2 clubs reading this now
- 3 members have read this book
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32. The Shack
by William P. Young
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- 6 clubs reading this now
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34. The Other Side of the Bridge
by Mary Lawson
(2 club reviews)
- 30 members reading this now
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- 1 member has read this book
From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming....
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36. The Lake of Dead Languages: A Novel
by Carol Goodman
(3 club reviews)
- 10 members reading this now
- 1 member has read this book
In the evocative tradition of Donna Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History, comes this accomplished debut of youthful innocence drowned by dark sins. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. Now she has returned...
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38. Bride Island
by Alexandra Enders
(1 club review)
- 21 members reading this now
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"Enders writes with such bone-deep honesty we know from the opening pages that it is winner take all."
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of The Ocean
Can a mother reclaim the daughter she lost? Six years ago, Polly Birdswell—drinking and deeply unhappy—made a decision that changed...
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39. Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
(6 club reviews)
- 9 members reading this now
- 4 members have read this book
Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for...
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