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For the week of August 17th

1. Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger

(18 club reviews)

138 members reading this now
25 clubs reading this now
11 members told 13 friends about this book.
24 members have read this book

Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller Peace Like a River captured the hearts of a nation in need of comfort. 'A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, and healing,' Peace Like a River is...

2. The Next Thing on My List: A Novel
by Jill Smolinski

(30 club reviews)

178 members reading this now
33 clubs reading this now
7 members told 7 friends about this book.
19 members have read this book

Meet June Parker. She works for L.A. Rideshare, adores her rent-stabilized apartment in Santa Monica, and struggles with losing a few pesky pounds.

But June’s life is about to change.

After a dark turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a chili recipe, and a car accident in which her...

3. Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen

(116 club reviews)

225 members reading this now
51 clubs reading this now
19 members told 33 friends about this book.
74 members have read this book

An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate...
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4. The Shack
by William P. Young

(6 club reviews)

7 members reading this now
9 clubs reading this now
1 member has read this book

5. The Glass Castle : A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls

(79 club reviews)

91 members reading this now
98 clubs reading this now
4 members told 4 friends about this book.
57 members have read this book

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology,...
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6. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

(26 club reviews)

25 members reading this now
60 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
8 members have read this book

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard

Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following...
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7. The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield

(15 club reviews)

97 members reading this now
6 clubs reading this now
3 members told 7 friends about this book.
25 members have read this book

Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is...

8. A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell

(16 club reviews)

162 members reading this now
22 clubs reading this now
14 members told 18 friends about this book.
8 members have read this book

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand....

9. Cold Rock River
by J. L. Miles

(11 club reviews)

48 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
7 members told 8 friends about this book.
4 members have read this book

In 1963 rural Georgia, with the Vietnam War cranking up, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins discovers the diary of pregnant seventeen-year-old Tempe Jordan, a slave girl, begun as the Civil War was winding down. Adie is haunted by the memory of her dead sister; Tempe is overcome with grief over...

10. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards

(74 club reviews)

82 members reading this now
98 clubs reading this now
11 members told 23 friends about this book.
76 members have read this book

"Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper's Daughter." —The Washington Post

Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she...
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11. Bride Island
by Alexandra Enders

(8 club reviews)

30 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.

"Enders writes with such bone-deep honesty we know from the opening pages that it is winner take all." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of The Ocean

Can a mother reclaim the daughter she lost?

Six years ago, Polly Birdswell—drinking and deeply unhappy—made a decision that changed...
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12. One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel
by Jim Fergus

(46 club reviews)

139 members reading this now
38 clubs reading this now
35 members told 70 friends about this book.
42 members have read this book

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial 'Brides for Indians' program, launched by...

13. Skin and Bone
by Kathryn Fox

2 members reading this now

Detective Kate Farrer returns to duty after three months of leave following her traumatic abduction. Fearing that she has lost her edge, she reluctantly partners homicide newcomer Oliver Parke, and they are thrown into the investigation of a woman burnt beyond recognition in a house-fire. The post-mortem...

14. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
by Lisa See

(39 club reviews)

60 members reading this now
69 clubs reading this now
2 members told 2 friends about this book.
38 members have read this book

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted...

15. The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory

(33 club reviews)

42 members reading this now
26 clubs reading this now
5 members told 5 friends about this book.
28 members have read this book

Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen....
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16. The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

(17 club reviews)

39 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
2 members told 2 friends about this book.
14 members have read this book

It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster...

17. Augusta Locke
by William Haywood Henderson

5 members reading this now

With a voice as rich, haunting, and beautifully compelling as the rugged landscape his heroine traverses, William Haywood Henderson tells the story of Augusta Locke, a true American pioneer, tough in spirit and achingly human. Spanning several decades across the two World Wars, Augusta Locke provides...

18. The Secret Life Of CeeCee Wilkes
by Diane Chamberlain

(5 club reviews)

13 members reading this now
5 clubs reading this now
4 members have read this book

An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she...

19. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

(11 club reviews)

50 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
3 members told 3 friends about this book.
7 members have read this book

The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram...

20. Eating Heaven
by Jennie Shortridge

(20 club reviews)

158 members reading this now
24 clubs reading this now
31 members told 69 friends about this book.
21 members have read this book

Nothing gets Eleanor Samuels's heart racing like a double scoop of mocha fudge chunk. Sure, the magazine writer may have some issues aside from food, but she isn't quite ready to face them. Then her beloved Uncle Benny falls ill, and what at first seems scary and daunting becomes a blessing in disguise....

21. A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini

(77 club reviews)

84 members reading this now
99 clubs reading this now
3 members told 7 friends about this book.
48 members have read this book

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.

Propelled by the same superb...
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22. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer

(3 club reviews)

15 members reading this now
10 clubs reading this now
5 members have read this book

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reasonas the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, "Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and absolutely necessary: he has written the first great novel...

23. The Samurai's Garden : A Novel
by Gail Tsukiyama

(5 club reviews)

9 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
3 members have read this book

The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover...

24. The Glass Castle (a memoir,THE GLASS CASTLE)
by Jeanette Walls

(5 club reviews)

5 members reading this now
5 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
6 members have read this book

25. My Sister's Keeper : A Novel
by Jodi Picoult

(40 club reviews)

56 members reading this now
57 clubs reading this now
36 members have read this book

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

Anna is not...
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26. Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen

(107 club reviews)

57 members reading this now
158 clubs reading this now
2 members told 12 friends about this book.
52 members have read this book

As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary...

27. The Girls
by Lori Lansens

(2 club reviews)

5 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now

Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins.

Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th...
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28. The Double Bind: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian

(7 club reviews)

11 members reading this now
10 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
8 members have read this book

Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to one of contemporary literature’s...

29. Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett

(7 club reviews)

14 members reading this now
5 members have read this book

Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for...

30. The Last Queen: A Novel
by C.W. Gortner

4 members reading this now

Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country’s throne, is an enigmatic figure, shrouded in lurid myth. Was she the bereft widow of legend who was driven mad by her loss, or has history misjudged a woman who was ahead of her time? In his stunning new novel, C.W. Gortner challenges...

31. Cloud Atlas : A Novel
by David Mitchell

(6 club reviews)

7 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
3 members have read this book

32. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

(40 club reviews)

46 members reading this now
58 clubs reading this now
61 members have read this book

An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, takes readers from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. As emotionally gripping as it is tender, "The Kite Runner" is an unusual and powerful debut.

33. The Year of Fog
by Michelle Richmond

(7 club reviews)

32 members reading this now
8 clubs reading this now
3 members have read this book

Now in Paperback "Gripping…Grade: A.” The Washington Post
“Involving, heart-rending and immediately readable…Richmond captures the spirit of life in The City.” The San Francisco Examiner
Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancée...

34. Colors of the Mountain
by Da Chen

(4 club reviews)

9 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
2 members have read this book

Written in simple, evocative prose, "Colors of the Mountain" is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood spent in China, and a welcome introduction to an amazing writer. "A defiantly happy book, big-hearted and sincere".--"Newsweek".

35. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield

(28 club reviews)

21 members reading this now
55 clubs reading this now
13 members have read this book

Sometimes, when you open the door to the

past, what you confront is your destiny.

Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting

stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives

for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready...
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36. Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides

(37 club reviews)

92 members reading this now
26 clubs reading this now
10 members told 16 friends about this book.
48 members have read this book

'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license...records...
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37. Promise Not to Tell: A Novel
by Jennifer McMahon

(1 club review)

34 members reading this now
5 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
1 member has read this book

"Deeply disturbing and darkly compelling, Promise Not to Tell will have you looking over your shoulder for the Potato Girl long after you've turned the last page." – Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants

Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care...
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38. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman

(4 club reviews)

39 members reading this now
6 clubs reading this now
4 members told 4 friends about this book.
6 members have read this book

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents,...

39. Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum

(2 club reviews)

7 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
3 members have read this book

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a...

40. The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan

(6 club reviews)

70 members reading this now
5 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
12 members have read this book

Tan's phenomenal #1 national bestseller is now available in trade paperback. "A compelling tale of family relationships; it layers and stirs themes of secrets, ambiguous meanings, cultural complexity, and self-identity; and it resonates with metaphor and symbol."--"The Denver Post."...

41. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert

(50 club reviews)

47 members reading this now
88 clubs reading this now
30 members have read this book

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life....

42. Outsider, The: A Novel
by Ann H. Gabhart

If the outside world is wrong why does it feel so right? For as long as she can remember, Gabrielle Hope has been plagued by a troubling secret. When she and her mother joined the Harmony Hill Shaker community in 1807, they were content. But now a local doctor has been brought in to save the life...

43. Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
by Ron Hall, Denver Moore

(2 club reviews)

2 members reading this now
4 clubs reading this now
1 member has read this book

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.

An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.

A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.

A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.

It begins outside...
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44. The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club)
by Ken Follett

(6 club reviews)

6 members reading this now
19 clubs reading this now
6 members have read this book

45. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd

(24 club reviews)

37 members reading this now
20 clubs reading this now
1 member told 1 friend about this book.
45 members have read this book

Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was...

46. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson

(21 club reviews)

28 members reading this now
29 clubs reading this now
4 members told 4 friends about this book.
20 members have read this book

A BookPage Notable Title
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including...

47. The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell

(2 club reviews)

17 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
2 members have read this book

ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

"A NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense."
--USA Today

"AN EXPERIENCE NOT TO BE MISSED . . . If you have to send a group of people to a newly discovered...

48. These is My Words
by Nancy Turner

(6 club reviews)

15 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
2 members have read this book

In a compelling fiction debut, Nancy E. Turner's unforgettable These Is My Words melds the sweeping adventures and dramatic landscapes of Lonesome Dove with the heartfelt emotional saga of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.

Inspired by the author's original family memoirs,...
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49. Loving Frank: A Novel
by Nancy Horan

(3 club reviews)

20 members reading this now
6 clubs reading this now
2 members have read this book

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin,...

50. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
by Loung Ung

(4 club reviews)

27 members reading this now
3 members told 3 friends about this book.
3 members have read this book

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained...
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CLUB BESTSELLER LIST For the week of August 17th

CLUB BESTSELLER LIST
For the week of August 17th