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Reading Group Choices Top Ten Book Club Favorites of 2011

Paula Walters - Monday, May 14, 2012

Reading Group Choices Top Ten Book Club Favorites of 2011

The following list is the top 10 book club favorites from Reading Group Choice.  Each year they ask thousands of books clubs what books they read and which were their favorites.

How many of these books have you and/or your book club read?

I have read all except Cutting for Stone and The Book Thief.  Both of these are on my ‘books to read list’ along with many others!!

I enjoyed all of these books.  NCRL has copies of all of these in the book club selections.

Let me know which of these books you read and did you like them?

It would also be fun if you made your own list.  What are your favorite or your book clubs favorite books that you read in 2011?

1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

2. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

4. Room by Emma Donoghue

5. Still Alice by Lisa Genova

6. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

7. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

8. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

10. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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