Choosing the 2011 Book List

Jo's suggestions:

• I'm Perfect, You're Doomed, by Kyria Abrahamson 
• Day After Night, by Anita Diamant (author of The Red Tent)
  
• The Pearl Diver, by Jeff Talarigo
• Push, by Sapphire
• The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
  
• The Poet of Baghdad, by Jo Tatchell
  

Pat:

• The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Robin:

• Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett (has a movie; was an Oprah pick)
• World without End, by Ken Follett
• Joy in the Morning, by Betty Smith (author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
• The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
• O Pioneers! or My Antonía by Willa Cather (CLASSIC)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay  
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (CLASSIC)

Jackie:

• House Rules by Jodi Picoult

Cheryl:

• The God of Small Things by Arundahti Roy   
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexei (short stories)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 

Nancy B:

• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (still in hardcover)
• A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz 
• The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett  
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Nancy R:

• Room by Emma Donohue (still in hardcover)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (still in hardcover) 
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Linda:

• The Outlander, by Gil Adamson
• Drop City by T.C. Boyle

Debbie:

• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Other suggestions that hadn't been read by anyone yet:

• Moral Ground by Kathleen Dean Moore (Pat)
• Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore (Pat)
• Too Close to the Falls, A Memoir by Catherine Gildiner (Janet)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford (Elene)

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