Title Selections
Suggested Titles for 2008 - 2009
Absurdistan
A Novel
Written by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7167-5 (0-8129-7167-1)
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812971675
Flight: A Novel (Paperback)
by Sherman Alexie
Published by Black Cat, an imprint of Grove / Atlantic
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat (April 17, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0802170374
ISBN-13: 978-0802170378
http://www.fallsapart.com/flight.htm
Sherman's book tour BLOG
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Elliot Perlman - Author
Paperback
640 pages
ISBN 9781594481437
Riverhead (Penguin Group USA)
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594481437,00.html
The Accidental Masterpiece
Michael Kimmelman
Paperback
Book: Paperback | 256 pages | ISBN 9780143037330 | 25 Jul 2006 | Penguin
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143037330,00.html
Reading Guide
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/accidental_masterpiece.html
What Matters Most
Nicole Bokat - Author
Book: Paperback | 320 pages | ISBN 9780451219480 | 03 Oct 2006
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780451219480,00.html
Reading Guide
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/whatmattersmost.html
Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel (P.S.) (Paperback)
by Michael Chabon
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 5, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0060790598
ISBN-13: 978-0060790592
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060790592/Mysteries_of_Pittsburgh/index.aspx
READING GUIDE
http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=1628&isbn13=9780060790592&displayType=readingGuide
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith (Paperback)
by Irshad Manji
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (February 10, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0312327005
ISBN-13: 978-0312327002
http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Islam-Today-Muslims-Reform/dp/0312327005/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-2464283-1389257?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183836511&sr=8-1
Peony in Love
by Lisa See
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (June 26, 2007)
ISBN-10: 140006466X
ISBN-13: 978-1400064663
Fiction
[Paperback: Not Available as of 07/11/7]
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (October 1, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0747582483
ISBN-13: 978-0747582489
Book Club Questions
http://www.lisasee.com/peony/peonybookclub.php
or
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400064663&view=rg
Eat, Pray, Love
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert - Author
Book: Paperback | 352 pages | ISBN 9780143038412 | 30 Jan 2007 | Penguin
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143038412,00.html
INTRODUCTION - AUTHOR INTERVIEW - DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/eat_pray_love.html
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (May 22, 2007)
ISBN-10: 1594489505
ISBN-13: 978-1594489501
http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594489505
Reading Guide
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/thousand_splendid_suns.html
Water for Elephants: A Novel (Paperback)
by Sara Gruen
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565125606/ref=pe_pe_606_6146940_pe_ar_t1
Paperback: 350 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books; Reprint edition (April 9, 2007)
ISBN-10: 1565125606
ISBN-13: 978-1565125605
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - Book Review
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/fictionreviews/gr/water_elephants.htm
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - Book Club Discussion Questions
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/waterElephantsq.htm
Interview with Sara Gruen - Author of Water for Elephants
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/authorinterviews/a/sara_gruen_intv.htm
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Suggested Titles for 2007 - 2008
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter By Kim Edwards
Mohawk By Richard Russo
Nobody’s Fool By Richard Russo
The Risk Pool By Richard Russo
The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls
*A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By Ishmael Beah
Pay It Forward By Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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Title Selections
Suggested for 2006 - 2007
Things Fall Apart: A Novel (Paperback) by Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 0385474547
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN: 0060529709
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback) by Sue Monk Kidd
ISBN: 01420017
*The Kite Runner (Paperback) by Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 1594480001
Let Me Go (Paperback) by Helga Schneider
ISBN: 0143035177
Windows on the World : A Novel (Hardcover)
by Frederic Beigbeder, Frank Wynne (Translator)
ISBN: 1401352235
A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
by Norman Maclean
ISBN: 0226500667
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho
ISBN: 0062502182
Nervous Conditions: A Novel (Paperback)
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
ISBN: 187806777X
The Tortilla Curtain
by T. C. Boyle
ISBN: 014023828X
* Indicates title chosen