Book Club Reads
39 different local bookclubs let us know what they read during 2007. These books were the most frequently read.
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
A compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. "Gritty, sensual and charged with dark secrets involving love, murder and a majestic, mute heroine, Rosie the Elephant."
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson
Greg Mortenson, nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, promised to return one day and build the village a school. From that promise grew Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools for girls throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments.
Suite Française
Irène Némirovsky
Bestselling author Némirovsky began a planned five-novel cycle as Nazi forces overran northern France in 1940 but was shipped to Auschwitz before she could complete them. This gripping "suite," collecting the first two sections, have surfaced more than 6 decades after her death.
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, Gilbert got rid of her belongings, quit her job, left her loved ones behind, and undertook a year-long journey around the world, all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the chronicle of that year.
See the full list of books read by local bookclubs in 2007.
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