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For the week of June 22nd




1. Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger


(18 club reviews)

  • 113 members reading this now
  • 22 clubs reading this now
  • 11 members told 13 friends about this book.
  • 22 members have read this book



Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller Peace Like a River captured the hearts of a nation in need of comfort. 'A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, and healing,' Peace Like a River is...
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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
  • 7 members told 7 friends about this book.
  • 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
  • 19 clubs reading this now
  • 14 members told 18 friends about this book.
  • 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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5. The Adultery Club
by Tess Stimson


  • 5 members reading this now
  • 2 clubs reading this now



Nicholas Lyon is the perfect husband—a handsome divorce attorney who dotes on his wife and family. Sara Kaplan is the perfect seductress—a vivacious young lawyer tired of being single. And Malinche Lyon is the perfect wife—a still-beautiful cookbook writer and mother to three darling daughters. Now,...
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6. The Glass Castle : A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls


(75 club reviews)

  • 84 members reading this now
  • 88 clubs reading this now
  • 4 members told 4 friends about this book.
  • 51 members have read this book



The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology,...
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7. Eating Heaven
by Jennie Shortridge


(18 club reviews)

  • 154 members reading this now
  • 24 clubs reading this now
  • 31 members told 69 friends about this book.
  • 19 members have read this book



Nothing gets Eleanor Samuels's heart racing like a double scoop of mocha fudge chunk. Sure, the magazine writer may have some issues aside from food, but she isn't quite ready to face them. Then her beloved Uncle Benny falls ill, and what at first seems scary and daunting becomes a blessing in disguise....
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8. The Cloister Walk
by Kathleen Norris


(3 club reviews)

  • 145 members reading this now
  • 3 clubs reading this now
  • 10 members told 10 friends about this book.
  • 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


(7 club reviews)

  • 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
  • 26 clubs reading this now
  • 10 members told 16 friends about this book.
  • 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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11. The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory


(32 club reviews)

  • 43 members reading this now
  • 25 clubs reading this now
  • 5 members told 5 friends about this book.
  • 26 members have read this book



Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen....
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12. The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield


(15 club reviews)

  • 77 members reading this now
  • 5 clubs reading this now
  • 3 members told 7 friends about this book.
  • 20 members have read this book



Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is...
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13. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
by Lisa See


(39 club reviews)

  • 55 members reading this now
  • 61 clubs reading this now
  • 2 members told 2 friends about this book.
  • 33 members have read this book



In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted...
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14. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards


(68 club reviews)

  • 78 members reading this now
  • 93 clubs reading this now
  • 11 members told 23 friends about this book.
  • 72 members have read this book



"Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper's Daughter." —The Washington Post

Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she...
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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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16. One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel
by Jim Fergus


(45 club reviews)

  • 135 members reading this now
  • 38 clubs reading this now
  • 35 members told 70 friends about this book.
  • 38 members have read this book



One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial 'Brides for Indians' program, launched by...
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17. The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak


(16 club reviews)

  • 35 members reading this now
  • 2 clubs reading this now
  • 2 members told 2 friends about this book.
  • 13 members have read this book



It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster...
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18. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin


(21 club reviews)

  • 17 members reading this now
  • 54 clubs reading this now
  • 1 member told 1 friend about this book.
  • 5 members have read this book



The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard

Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following...
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19. One in a Million
by Kimberla Lawson Roby


  • 1 member reading this now



In the first novella by the New York Times bestselling author of the Reverend Curtis Black series, a wife and a husband receive a surprise that will change their lives forever Kennedi Mason thinks she's the luckiest woman on earth. She loves her job, she has a wonderful best friend, and she's been...
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20. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield


(23 club reviews)

  • 15 members reading this now
  • 43 clubs reading this now
  • 12 members have read this book



Sometimes, when you open the door to the

past, 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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21. The Secret Life Of CeeCee Wilkes
by Diane Chamberlain


(3 club reviews)

  • 6 members reading this now
  • 2 clubs reading this now
  • 3 members have read this book



An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she...
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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








23. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin


(11 club reviews)

  • 46 members reading this now
  • 3 clubs reading this now
  • 3 members told 3 friends about this book.
  • 6 members have read this book



The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram...
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24. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett


(1 club review)

  • 1 member reading this now
  • 1 club reading this now



There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday....
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25. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert


(41 club reviews)

  • 44 members reading this now
  • 83 clubs reading this now
  • 25 members have read this book



This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life....
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26. Bad Girls Club
by Judy Gregerson


(2 club reviews)

  • 8 members reading this now
  • 1 club reading this now
  • 1 member told 1 friend about this book.
  • 1 member has read this book



Destiny doesn't tell her friends what goes on at home. Neither does her little sister. In fact, her little sister doesn't talk at all anymore.

Destiny has a secret. She’s been told not to tell anyone what happened to her, her little sister, and her mother at Crater Lake. Or that her mother is mentally...
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27. Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer


(9 club reviews)

  • 16 members reading this now
  • 10 clubs reading this now
  • 1 member told 1 friend about this book.
  • 13 members have read this book



Deeply sensuous and extraordinarily suspenseful, TWILIGHT captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. Isabella Swans move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But...
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28. The Book Thief (Readers Circle)
by Markus Zusak


(12 club reviews)

  • 10 members reading this now
  • 17 clubs reading this now
  • 3 members have read this book



It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger,...
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29. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer


(3 club reviews)

  • 12 members reading this now
  • 10 clubs reading this now
  • 4 members have read this book



Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reasonas the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, "Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and absolutely necessary: he has written the first great novel...
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30. My Sister's Keeper : A Novel
by Jodi Picoult


(39 club reviews)

  • 54 members reading this now
  • 53 clubs reading this now
  • 32 members have read this book



New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

Anna is not...
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31. Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen


(91 club reviews)

  • 52 members reading this now
  • 142 clubs reading this now
  • 2 members told 12 friends about this book.
  • 42 members have read this book



As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary...
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32. The Shack
by William P. Young


(2 club reviews)

  • 1 member reading this now
  • 6 clubs reading this now








33. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
by Paulo Coelho


(8 club reviews)

  • 27 members reading this now
  • 9 clubs reading this now
  • 2 members told 2 friends about this book.
  • 8 members have read this book



Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world, and this tenth anniversary edition, with a new introduction from the author, will only increase that following. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd...
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34. The Other Side of the Bridge
by Mary Lawson


(2 club reviews)

  • 30 members reading this now
  • 1 club reading this now
  • 2 members told 2 friends about this book.
  • 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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35. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
by Lorna Landvik


(12 club reviews)

  • 28 members reading this now
  • 5 clubs reading this now
  • 2 members told 5 friends about this book.
  • 19 members have read this book



From her sensational sleeper hit "Patty Jane's House of Curl" to her heartwarming novel "Welcome to the Great Mysterious," Landvik has won the hearts of readers everywhere. Now she returns to her beloved, eccentric stomping ground of small-town Minnesota where a most eclectic, and engaging group of women...
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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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37. Shantaram : A Novel
by Gregory David Roberts


(8 club reviews)

  • 52 members reading this now
  • 6 clubs reading this now
  • 2 members told 2 friends about this book.
  • 2 members have read this book



'It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.'

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary...
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38. Bride Island
by Alexandra Enders


(1 club review)

  • 21 members reading this now
  • 1 member told 1 friend about this book.



"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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40. The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta


(3 club reviews)

  • 23 members reading this now
  • 1 club reading this now
  • 3 members have read this book



Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids. It’s got the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It’s the kind of place where parents are involved in their children’s lives, where no opportunity for enrichment goes unexplored.
...
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41. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini


(39 club reviews)

  • 46 members reading this now
  • 58 clubs reading this now
  • 56 members have read this book



An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, takes readers from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. As emotionally gripping as it is tender, "The Kite Runner" is an unusual and powerful debut.
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42. Loving Frank: A Novel
by Nancy Horan


(3 club reviews)

  • 20 members reading this now
  • 6 clubs reading this now
  • 1 member has read this book



I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin,...
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43. Stone Creek: A Novel
by Victoria Lustbader


  • 1 club reading this now



Set in smalltown upstate New York, Lily spends a summer at Stone Creek while her powerful, workaholic husband, Paul, is home in New York City. Their once passionate marriage, has fizzled somewhat under the weight of Lily's childless sadness. While Lily is a vulnerable character, you get the sense of...
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44. The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan


(4 club reviews)

  • 64 members reading this now
  • 4 clubs reading this now
  • 1 member told 1 friend about this book.
  • 10 members have read this book



Tan's phenomenal #1 national bestseller is now available in trade paperback. "A compelling tale of family relationships; it layers and stirs themes of secrets, ambiguous meanings, cultural complexity, and self-identity; and it resonates with metaphor and symbol."--"The Denver Post."...
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45. The Friday Night Knitting Club
by Kate Jacobs


(6 club reviews)

  • 6 members reading this now
  • 13 clubs reading this now
  • 3 members have read this book



The New York Times bestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback.

Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club....
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46. Nineteen Minutes: A novel
by Jodi Picoult


(16 club reviews)

  • 62 members reading this now
  • 14 clubs reading this now
  • 1 member told 1 friend about this book.
  • 12 members have read this book



In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.

In nineteen...
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47. Promise Not to Tell: A Novel
by Jennifer McMahon


(1 club review)

  • 31 members reading this now
  • 5 clubs reading this now
  • 1 member told 1 friend about this book.
  • 1 member has read this book



"Deeply disturbing and darkly compelling, Promise Not to Tell will have you looking over your shoulder for the Potato Girl long after you've turned the last page." – Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants

Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care...
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48. Elsewhere (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
by Gabrielle Zevin


  • 2 members reading this now
  • 1 club reading this now



Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere’s museums....
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49. Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali


(7 club reviews)

  • 5 members reading this now
  • 8 clubs reading this now
  • 6 members have read this book



In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her...
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50. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan


(1 club review)

  • 4 members reading this now
  • 13 clubs reading this now
  • 3 members have read this book



A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or...
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