Great Group Reads
National Reading Group Month 2008
Books and their authors from chapter and partner events (alphabetical order):
The Second Journey by Joan Anderson (Hyperion)
One Hundred Books for Girls to Grow On and The Mother-Daughter Book Club, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Shireen Dodson (Harper Paperbacks)
How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (Harper Paperbacks)
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller (Hyperion)
The Book Club Cookbook and The Kids' Book Club Book by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp (Tarcher)
Big Money by Jack Getze (Hilliard & Harris Publishers)
Hell Hole: A John Ceepak Mystery by Chris Grabenstein (St. Martin's/Minotaur)
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone-Fireside Books)
The Condition by Jennifer Haigh (HarperCollins)
Hannah's Dream by Diane Hammond (Harper Paperbacks)
The Year She Disappeared by Ann Harleman (Univ. of Texas Press)
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (Ballantine)
The Way Life Should Be by Christina Baker Kline (Harper Paperbacks)
Schooled by Anisha Lakhani (Hyperion)
The English American by Alison Larkin (Simon & Schuster)
Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn by Alice Mattison (Harper Perennial)
The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden (Hyperion)
The Red Lion Series by Yxta Maya Murray (Harper Paperbacks)
The Girl I Left Behind by Judith Nies (HarperCollins)
Angel and Apostle by Deborah Noyes (Unbridled Books)
The Return of Desire by Gina Ogden (Trumpeter)
Book Lust, More Book Lust and Book Crush by Nancy Pearl (Sasquatch Books)
Peony in Love by Lisa See (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer (Harper Perennial)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich (Viking)
National Reading Group Month 2007
Books and their authors from chapter and partner events (alphabetical order):
Queen of the Odd Balls by Hillary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
The Divorce Party by Laura Dave (Viking)
Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon (Harper Perennial)
Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh (Harper Perennial)
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (Harper Perennial)
Help Me Help Myself by Beth Lisick (Wm. Morrow)
Light of Day by Jamie M. Saul (Wm. Morrow)
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe (Counterpoint · Soft Skull)
City of Glory by Beverly Swerling (Simon & Schuster)
Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani (Ballantine)
Recommended Reads: WNBA Member Books
WNBA invites readers to visit its national Web site to discover Great Group Reads authored by WNBA members.
Recommended Reads: Special Interest and Themes
World Connections — Afghanistan
Fiction
Paradise Trilogy: Companions of Paradise by Thalassa Ali (Bantam)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade)
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (Anchor Books)
Annisa: Daughter of Afghanistan by Kathleen MacArthur (Lulu.com)
The End of Manners by Francesca Marciano (Pantheon)
Nonfiction
Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by John Follain (Harper Paperbacks)
Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones (Metropolitan Books)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace�One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriquez and Kristin Ohlson (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Back Bay Books)
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart (Harvest Books)
Science
Nonfiction
"Outstanding Science Books by Women Authors," (PDF) compiled by SB&F, the review journal of American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Recommended Reads
From WNBA chapters
"Food for Thought: Reading and Writing About Food," compiled by the WNBA-Nashville chapter in conjunction with the its summer reading and discussion series co-sponsored by Beaman Library/Lipscomb University
Fiction
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Anchor Books)
Nonfiction
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme (Anchor Books)
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin (Harper Perennial)
The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader by M.F.K. Fisher (Counterpoint)
A Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (Picador)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Penguin)
From National Reading Group Month partners and enthusiasts:
Book Club Girl — Dedicated to sharing great books, news and tips with book club girls everywhere
Booklist Online — Book Reviews from the American Library Association
Book Movement — Now serving 14,551 book clubs
NJLA: New Jersey Library Association — The voice of New Jersey libraries and librarians
Reading Group Choices — Selecting discussable books since 1995
Reading Group Guides.com — The online community for reading groups
Where to buy:
Amazon.com
American Booksellers Association — IndieBound
Barnes & Noble
Powell's Books — Used, New and Out of Print
