Lunchtime Book Group

Come to Wellesley Books' lunchtime book group. Betty Sudarsky, unparalleled bookseller and experienced book club leader chooses each book carefully and leads the discussion. Bring your own lunch if you like, Betty supplies snacks, drinks, and insight. No need to sign up as drop-ins are welcome. See the list of previous Lunchtime Book Group picks below.

 

Song of Solomon: A Novel (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781400033423
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004

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The Overstory: A Novel By Richard Powers Cover Image
$18.95
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ISBN: 9780393356687
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 2nd, 2019

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The House of Broken Angels By Luis Alberto Urrea Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316154895
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Back Bay Books - March 5th, 2019

Washington Black By Esi Edugyan Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525563242
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Vintage - April 9th, 2019

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood By Trevor Noah Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780399588198
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: One World - February 12th, 2019

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Tayari Jones Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781616208684
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Published: Algonquin Books - February 5th, 2019

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Asymmetry: A Novel By Lisa Halliday Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501166785
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Simon & Schuster - October 16th, 2018

Dunbar: William Shakespeare's King Lear Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) By Edward St. Aubyn Cover Image
$17.00
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ISBN: 9781101904305
Published: Hogarth - July 24th, 2018

The Transit of Venus By Shirley Hazzard Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780140107470
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Published: Penguin Books - September 1st, 1990

The Song of Achilles: A Novel By Madeline Miller Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062060624
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Ecco - August 28th, 2012

The Underground Railroad: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780345804327
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Published: Anchor - January 30th, 2018

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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) By Min Jin Lee Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781455563920
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 14th, 2017

History of Wolves By Emily Fridlund Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802127389
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Published: Grove Press - November 7th, 2017

Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel By Madeleine Thien Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393354720
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2017

Cat's Eye By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780385491020
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Anchor - January 20th, 1998

The Nix By Nathan Hill Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781101970348
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Published: Vintage - May 2nd, 2017

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Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101971062
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Published: Vintage - May 2nd, 2017

Memory Wall: Stories By Anthony Doerr Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781439182840
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Published: Scribner - July 5th, 2011

American Pastoral: American Trilogy 1 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Vintage International) By Philip Roth Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780375701429
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Published: Vintage - February 3rd, 1998

Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe By Dawn Tripp Cover Image
$17.00
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ISBN: 9780812981865
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - January 17th, 2017

Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries) By Karen Russell Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307276681
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Published: Vintage - July 26th, 2011

Even in Paradise By Elizabeth Nunez Cover Image
$15.95
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ISBN: 9781617754401
Published: Akashic Books, Ltd. - April 5th, 2016

Did You Ever Have a Family By Bill Clegg Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781476798189
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Published: Gallery/Scout Press - May 17th, 2016

All My Puny Sorrows By Miriam Toews Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781635574975
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - October 15th, 2019

Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey (Editor), John Carey (Introduction by), John Carey (Notes by) Cover Image
By William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey (Editor), John Carey (Introduction by), John Carey (Notes by)
$12.00
ISBN: 9780141439839
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Published: Penguin Classics - April 29th, 2003

The Turner House By Angela Flournoy Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780544705166
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Published: Mariner Books - March 1st, 2016

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015

Canada By Richard Ford Cover Image
$16.99
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ISBN: 9780061692031
Published: Ecco - January 22nd, 2013

A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780804172707
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Anchor - January 26th, 2016

Descent: A Novel By Tim Johnston Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781616204778
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Published: Algonquin Books - December 1st, 2015

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage International) By Richard Flanagan Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780804171472
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Published: Vintage - April 14th, 2015

Brideshead Revisited By Evelyn Waugh Cover Image
$19.99
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ISBN: 9780316216456
Published: Back Bay Books - December 11th, 2012

The Woman in White By Wilkie Collins Cover Image
$6.95
ISBN: 9780553212631
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Bantam Classics - April 1st, 1985

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel By Celeste Ng Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143127550
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Published: Penguin Books - May 12th, 2015

Dissident Gardens (Vintage Contemporaries) By Jonathan Lethem Cover Image
$15.95
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ISBN: 9780307744494
Published: Vintage - June 3rd, 2014

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Remember Me Like This: A Novel By Bret Anthony Johnston Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812971880
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 3rd, 2015

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The Martian: A Novel By Andy Weir Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780553418026
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Ballantine Books - October 28th, 2014

An Unnecessary Woman By Rabih Alameddine Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802122940
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Published: Grove Press - November 11th, 2014

The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel By Alice Hoffman Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781451693577
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Published: Scribner - September 30th, 2014

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The Woman Upstairs (Vintage Contemporaries) By Claire Messud Cover Image
$17.00
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ISBN: 9780307743763
Published: Vintage - February 4th, 2014

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel By Anthony Doerr Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781501173219
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Published: Scribner - April 4th, 2017

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II By Denise Kiernan Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781451617535
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Published: Atria Books - March 11th, 2014

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Americanah: A novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307455925
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Published: Vintage - March 4th, 2014

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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel By Anthony Marra Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780770436421
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Published: Hogarth - February 4th, 2014

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My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609450786
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Europa Editions - September 25th, 2012

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The Round House: National Book Award Winning Fiction By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062065254
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Published: Harper Perennial - September 24th, 2013

A Hologram for the King: A Novel By Dave Eggers Cover Image
$16.95
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ISBN: 9780307947512
Published: Vintage - June 4th, 2013

The News from Spain (Vintage Contemporaries) By Joan Wickersham Cover Image
$21.00
ISBN: 9780307949295
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Vintage - July 2nd, 2013

Angle of Repose By Wallace Stegner Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781101872765
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Published: Vintage - November 4th, 2014

The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition By F. Scott Fitzgerald Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780743273565
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Scribner - September 30th, 2004

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories By Nathan Englander Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307949608
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Published: Vintage - March 5th, 2013

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The Snow Child: A Novel By Eowyn Ivey Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316175661
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Back Bay Books - November 6th, 2012

The Garden of Evening Mists By Tan Twan Eng Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781602861800
Availability: On our shelves now.
Published: Hachette Books - September 4th, 2012

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A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel By Wiley Cash Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062088239
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 22nd, 2013

Watergate: A Novel By Thomas Mallon Cover Image
$19.00
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ISBN: 9780307474650
Published: Vintage - January 8th, 2013

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9780743270755
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 26th, 2006

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The Night Circus: A Novel By Erin Morgenstern Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780307744432
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Published: Vintage - July 3rd, 2012

Last Man in Tower (Vintage International) By Aravind Adiga Cover Image
$16.95
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ISBN: 9780307739834
Published: Vintage - August 7th, 2012

Wolf Hall: A Novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy #1) By Hilary Mantel Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780312429980
Published: Picador - August 31st, 2010

The Sense of an Ending (Vintage International) By Julian Barnes Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307947727
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Published: Vintage - May 29th, 2012

Salvage the Bones: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781608196265
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - April 24th, 2012

The Submission: A Novel By Amy Waldman Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781250007575
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(This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Picador - March 27th, 2012

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens Cover Image
$5.95
ISBN: 9780553213423
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Published: Bantam Classics - August 1st, 1982

You Know When the Men Are Gone By Siobhan Fallon Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9780451234391
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 3rd, 2012

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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel By Téa Obreht  Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780385343848
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - November 1st, 2011

Foreign Bodies By Cynthia Ozick Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780547577494
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Published: Mariner Books - November 15th, 2011

The Widower's Tale By Julia Glass Cover Image
$16.95
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ISBN: 9780307456106
Published: Anchor - July 12th, 2011

A Visit from the Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner By Jennifer Egan Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307477477
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Published: Anchor - March 22nd, 2011

A Soldier Of The Great War By Mark Helprin Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9780156031134
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Published: Mariner Books - June 1st, 2005

The Story of a Marriage: A Novel By Andrew Sean Greer Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780312428280
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Published: Picador - March 31st, 2009

The Line: A Novel By Olga Grushin Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780143118558
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Published: Penguin Books - March 29th, 2011

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781400052189
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Published: Crown - March 8th, 2011

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The Lotus Eaters: A Novel By Tatjana Soli Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780312674441
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - December 21st, 2010

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The Tender Bar: A Memoir By J. R. Moehringer Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780786888764
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Published: Hachette Books - August 1st, 2006

The Age of Innocence (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) By Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss (Introduction by)
$11.00
ISBN: 9780375753206
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Published: Modern Library - March 2nd, 1999

Moloka'i: A Novel By Alan Brennert Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780312304355
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - October 4th, 2004

Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) By Lorrie Moore Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307474964
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Published: Vintage - January 12th, 2010

Heart Is A Lonely Hunter By Carson McCullers Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780618526413
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Published: Mariner Books Classics - April 21st, 2004

Cutting for Stone By Abraham Verghese Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780375714368
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Published: Vintage - January 26th, 2010

Tinkers By Paul Harding Cover Image
$16.99
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ISBN: 9781934137123
Published: Bellevue Literary Press - January 1st, 2009

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780060935467
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - July 5th, 2005

A Passage To India By E.M. Forster Cover Image
$13.99
ISBN: 9780156711425
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Published: Mariner Books Classics -

Brooklyn: A Novel (Eilis Lacey Series) By Colm Toibin Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781439148952
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Published: Scribner - March 2nd, 2010

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner) By Joseph J. Ellis Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780375705243
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Published: Vintage - February 5th, 2002

The relationships and politics of the country's founders are fascinating while the struggles are not that different from what we face today.


Let the Great World Spin: A Novel By Colum McCann Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812973990
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - November 30th, 2009

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories By Flannery O'Connor Cover Image
$14.99
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ISBN: 9780156364652
Published: Mariner Books - August 23rd, 1977

One of the masters of American short ficiton, Ms. O'COnnor received the posthumous National Book Award this year. Her stories are startling and blunt, funny and poignant and totally unique. Her vision is a bedrock of American life: strange and true.


Rabbit, Run By John Updike Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780449911655
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 27th, 1996

Domestic life in the 60's that put Updike on the map. The writing alone merits all the attention.


The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel By Yoko Ogawa Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780312427801
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Published: Picador - February 3rd, 2009

Say You're One of Them By Uwem Akpan Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316086370
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 18th, 2009

Brutal and heartwrenching, this important collection of stories set in Africa details the desperate lives of many of the continent's children. If reading the stories is difficult, it pales in comparison to living them.


East of Eden By John Steinbeck Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780142004234
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Published: Penguin Books - June 18th, 2003

Steinbeck's masterpiece is the essential textbook on good vs. evil. Compelling.


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In the Woods: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad #1) By Tana French Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143113492
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Published: Penguin Books - May 27th, 2008

A real mystery in which a detective determined to use his past to solve a crime gets overwhelmed by it.


Mudbound By Hillary Jordan Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781565126770
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 17th, 2009

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court By Jeffrey Toobin Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781400096794
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Published: Anchor - September 9th, 2008

A view inside the Rehnquist court. Full of wonderful tidbits with notable cases to follow.


Run: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780061340642
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Published: Harper Perennial - July 29th, 2008

Ann Patchett's latest taking place in Boston in which identity and race criss-cross as a Dad does his best.


The Book Thief By Markus Zusak Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780375842207
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers - September 11th, 2007

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X By Deborah Davis Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781585423361
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Published: TarcherPerigee - May 3rd, 2004

The story of a John Singer Sargent portrait set amidst the French mores of the 1800's. A fine picture of Sargent and his friends.


Arthur & George (Vintage International) By Julian Barnes Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9781400097036
Published: Vintage - January 9th, 2007

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gets involved in the case of a falsely accused son of immigrants.


The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) By Junot Díaz Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594483295
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 2nd, 2008

Going between the Dominican Republic and the U.S., this Pulitzer Prize-winner is an eye-opening view of the difficulties and joys of living in the U.S. as a foreigner.


Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Translated by), Geoffrey Wall (Introduction by), Geoffrey Wall (Notes by), Michele Roberts (Preface by) Cover Image
By Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Translated by), Geoffrey Wall (Introduction by), Geoffrey Wall (Notes by), Michele Roberts (Preface by)
$13.00
ISBN: 9780140449129
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Published: Penguin Classics - December 31st, 2002

The Flaubert classic of adultery and expectation and a woman who can't win. Sparked a discussion about privilege.


Eat the Document: A Novel By Dana Spiotta Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780743273008
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Published: Scribner - November 28th, 2006

What ensues when college activists/revolutionaries try to settle down.


Mister Pip By Lloyd Jones Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780385341073
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - May 20th, 2008

A book about imagination as taught on an island by an unlikely teacher and a wonderfully receptive class amidst the backdrop of barbarism. The discussion made the book even richer.


The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780156034029
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Published: Harper Perennial - April 14th, 2008

A timely "dialogue" between a young Pakistani and an unnamed listener that details the path from a Princeton education to dissention with Western way of life. Fascinating. We had differing opinions on the ending.