Favorites From the Last Eleven Years

Yes, we've weeded out a few books that the group read and no one liked, but this is close to a complete list of what the General Book Club has read. It's a great place to start when you're looking for ideas for your own book club.You can also check out our yearly Best of Book Club selection, or just come into the store and we're happy to help recommend some great discussion books.

We also offer a 15% discount if you special order in 4 or more copies of a title for your book club.

P.S. One of the few glitches we're having with the new site is affecting this page. Please excuse the mess while we work to fix it.


The Indian Clerk (Paperback)

By David Leavitt
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781596910416
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 09/01/2008

By Colin Thubron
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780061231773
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Published: Harper Perennial, 07/01/2008

By Barack Obama
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781400082773
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Published: Three Rivers Press, 08/01/2004

Mister Pip (Paperback)

By Lloyd Jones
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9780385341073
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 05/01/2008

By Diane Ackerman
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780393333060
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 09/01/2008

Shalimar the Clown (Paperback)

By Salman Rushdie
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780679783480
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 10/01/2006

By Mohsin Hamid
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156034029
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Published: Harvest Books, 04/01/2008

By Philip Roth
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781400079490
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Published: Vintage, 09/01/2005

By Stef Penney
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781416571308
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 03/01/2008

By Ann Patchett
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060572150
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Published: Harper Perennial, 04/01/2005

The Night Watch (Paperback)

By Sarah Waters
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781594482304
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 09/01/2006

By Dinaw Mengestu
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781594482854
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 02/01/2008

By Khaled Hosseini
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781594483851
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 11/01/2008

Kindred (Paperback)

By Octavia E. Butler
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780807083697
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Published: Beacon Press (MA), 02/01/2004

Suite Francaise (Paperback)

By Irene Nemirovsky
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781400096275
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Published: Vintage, 04/01/2007

By Tim O'Brien
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780767902892
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Published: Broadway, 01/01/1998

By Thomas Mullen
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812975925
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 07/01/2007

By Tracy Kidder
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780812973013
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 01/01/2004

By Yasmina Khadra, John Cullen
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781400033768
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Published: Anchor, 04/01/2005

Ursula, Under (Paperback)

By Ingrid Hill
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143035459
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 06/01/2005

By Junot Diaz, Junot Da-Az
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781594483295
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Published: Riverhead Books, 09/01/2008

The Sea (Paperback)

By John Banville
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781400097029
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Published: Vintage, 08/01/2006

By Robert Hellenga
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780385314695
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Published: Delta, 05/01/1995

Away (Paperback)

By Amy Bloom
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780812977790
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2008

By Stephen L. Carter
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780375712920
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Published: Vintage, 05/01/2003

By Kevin Brockmeier
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781400095957
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Published: Vintage, 01/01/2007

The Air We Breathe (Paperback)

By Andrea Barrett
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780393333077
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 10/01/2008

Never Let Me Go (Paperback)

By Kazuo Ishiguro
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781400078776
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Published: Vintage, 03/01/2006

The Painted Veil (Paperback)

By W. Somerset Maugham
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307277770
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Published: Vintage, 11/01/2006

About Grace (Paperback)

By Anthony Doerr
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143036166
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 09/01/2005

Gilead (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312424404
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Published: Picador, 01/01/2006

The History of Love (Paperback)

By Nicole Krauss
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780393328622
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 04/01/2006

By Xinran
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781400030804
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Published: Anchor, 11/01/2003

Unless (Paperback)

By Carol Shields
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780007154616
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Published: Fourth Estate, 05/01/2003

By Joan Silber
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780393334890
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 06/01/2009

By Colum Mccann
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812973990
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2010

By Anne Fadiman
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780374525644
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 01/01/1997

By Paul Auster
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312426231
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Published: Picador, 10/01/2006

Telex from Cuba (Paperback)

By Rachel Kushner
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781416561040
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Published: Scribner, 06/01/2009

You Remind Me of Me (Paperback)

By Dan Chaon
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780345441409
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Published: Ballantine Books, 04/01/2005

The Corrections (Paperback)

By Jonathan Franzen
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780312421274
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Published: Picador, 09/01/2002

A Thread of Grace (Paperback)

By Mary Doria Russell
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780449004135
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Published: Ballantine Books, 12/01/2005

By Debra Dean
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780060825317
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Published: Harper Perennial, 03/01/2007

Resistance (Paperback)

By Owen Sheers
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307385833
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Published: Anchor, 02/01/2009

The Power of One (Paperback)

By Bryce Courtenay
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780345410054
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Published: Ballantine Books, 09/01/1996

The Master (Paperback)

By Colm Toibin
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780743250412
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Published: Scribner, 05/01/2005

By Charles Powers
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780140272819
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 05/01/1998

By William Brodrick
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780142004623
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 08/01/2004

On Beauty (Paperback)

By Zadie Smith
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143037743
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 09/01/2006

Prague (Paperback)

By Arthur Phillips
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780375759772
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2003

March (Paperback)

By Geraldine Brooks
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143036661
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2006

Acts of Faith (Paperback)

By Philip Caputo
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375725975
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Published: Vintage, 05/01/2006

By Timothy Egan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780618773473
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Published: Mariner Books, 09/01/2006

By Jonathan Raban
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780679776147
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Published: Vintage, 11/01/2000

By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780743254434
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Published: Scribner, 02/01/2004

Waiting (Paperback)

By Ha Jin
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375706417
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Published: Vintage, 09/01/2000

By Azar Nafisi
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812971064
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 12/01/2003

By Mark Haddon
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781400032716
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Published: Vintage, 05/01/2004

By Alice Munro
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780679755623
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Published: Vintage, 11/01/1995

Middlesex (Paperback)

By Jeffrey Eugenides
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780312422158
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Published: Picador, 09/01/2003

Long for This World (Paperback)

By Michael Byers
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780618446483
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Published: Mariner Books, 05/01/2004

Personal History (Paperback)

By Katharine Graham
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780375701047
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Published: Vintage, 02/01/1998

By Erik Larson
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375725609
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Published: Vintage, 02/01/2004

By Dai Sijie
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780385722209
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Published: Anchor, 10/01/2002

By Sarah Stonich
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ISBN-13: 9780316815581
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Published: Back Bay Books, 03/01/2002

Martyrs' Crossing (Paperback)

By Amy Wilentz
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780345449832
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Published: Ballantine Books, 01/01/2002

Atonement (Paperback)

By Ian Mcewan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780385721790
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Published: Anchor, 02/01/2003

Three Junes (Paperback)

By Julia Glass
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780385721424
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Published: Anchor, 04/01/2003

Lying Awake (Paperback)

By Mark Salzman
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780375706066
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Published: Vintage, 10/01/2001

By Sena Jeter Naslund, Christopher Wormell
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780688177850
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Published: Harper Perennial, 10/01/2000

Hotel Du Lac (Paperback)

By Anita Brookner
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780679759324
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Published: Vintage, 10/01/1995

Angle of Repose (Paperback)

By Wallace Stegner, Jackson J. Benson
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780141185477
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Published: Penguin Classics, 12/01/2000

By Tracy Chevalier
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780452284937
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Published: Plume, 10/01/2003

The Map of Love (Paperback)

By Ahdaf Soueif
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780385720113
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Published: Anchor, 09/01/2000

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances Fox Piven
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ISBN-13: 9780805063899
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Published: Holt Paperbacks, 01/01/2001

Empire Falls (Paperback)

By Richard Russo
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375726408
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Published: Vintage, 04/01/2002

Bel Canto (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780060934415
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Published: Harper Perennial, 04/01/2002

The Translator (Paperback)

By John Crowley
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780380815371
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Published: Harper Perennial, 03/01/2003

All Over Creation (Paperback)

By Ruth L. Ozeki
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780142003893
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 03/01/2004

By Alexandra Fuller
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375758997
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 03/01/2003

By Susan Orlean
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780449003718
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Published: Ballantine Books, 01/01/2000

The Kite Runner (Paperback)

By Khaled Hosseini
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781594480003
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 01/01/2003

The Red Tent (Paperback)

By Anita Diamant
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780312195519
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Published: Picador, 09/01/1998

By Matt Ruff
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780060954857
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Published: Harper Perennial, 02/01/2004

By Sebastien Japrisot, Linda Coverdale
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780312424589
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Published: Picador, 11/01/2004

By Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia Graves
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143034902
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2005

Caramelo (Paperback)

By Sandra Cisneros
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780679742586
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Published: Vintage, 09/01/2003

By Geraldine Brooks
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385475778
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Published: Anchor, 12/01/1995

By Jhumpa Lahiri
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780395927205
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Published: Mariner Books, 06/01/1999

By Michael Chabon
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780312282998
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Published: Picador, 08/01/2001

Guernica (Paperback)

By Dave Boling
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781596916371
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 09/01/2009

Waxwings (Paperback)

By Jonathan Raban
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780375709050
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Published: Vintage, 10/01/2004

The Blind Assassin (Paperback)

By Margaret Atwood
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385720953
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Published: Anchor, 08/01/2001

By Andre Dubus, III
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781400077359
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Published: Vintage Books USA, 11/01/2003

Memoirs of a Geisha (Paperback)

By Arthur Golden
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780679781585
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Published: Vintage, 01/01/1999

The Book of Salt (Paperback)

By Monique Truong
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780618446889
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Published: Mariner Books, 06/01/2004

My Name Is Red (Paperback)

By Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375706851
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Published: Vintage, 08/01/2002

By Sebastian Barry
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143115694
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 04/01/2009

Broken for You (Paperback)

By Stephanie Kallos
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780802142108
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Published: Grove Press, 06/01/2005

The Lemon Table (Paperback)

By Julian Barnes
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781400076505
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Published: Vintage, 05/01/2005

Life of Pi (Paperback)

By Yann Martel
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780156027328
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Published: Mariner Books, 05/01/2003

The Hours (Paperback)

By Michael Cunningham
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780312305062
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Published: Picador, 11/01/2002

By Margot Livesey
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780061451546
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Published: Harper Perennial, 05/01/2009

Digging to America (Paperback)

By Anne Tyler
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780345492340
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Published: Ballantine Books, 08/01/2007