 | In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $0.01 We would give this 4 out of 5 stars - provided a good discussion.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 We loved this book! Great discussion book!
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 | I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Most people really enjoyed this book (if you love Pride & Prejuidice you'll love this). Wasn't a great discussion book.
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 | Atticus: Novel, A by Ron Hansen
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 Great read! Quite the page turner.
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 | My Sister's Keeper: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Everyone loved this book. It was a very easy & quick read and provided a good discussion.
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 | House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus III
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Our book group (or the two of us that actually read this book) hated it - there was nothing we liked about it!
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 | The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.05 Great book - not the greatest discussion book.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $0.11 Great Classic - one of Hemmingway's best!
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 | The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 We all felt luke warm about this book (maybe 3.5 stars out of 5) but it was one of out best discussions!
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 | Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted by Annie Hawes
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.50 This book was marketed as laugh out loud funny - we must have missed the joke because most of us found it rather dull.
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 | Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 We'd rate this book 3.5 our of 5.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.01 Great Classic Read - not as easy a discussion book.
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 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: $3.32 / Used from: $0.01 People found this book difficult (topic wise) to read. Had good discussion.
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 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $0.01 Great Classic Read!
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 | The Dante Club: A Novel by Matthew Pearl
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 Slow start - but great read! Everyone in the group loved it.
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 | Blindness (Harvest Book) by Jose Saramago
Buy new: $10.00 / Used from: $0.01 Great discussion book and scary topic.
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 | The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #12) by P. D. James
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Slow for a murder myster - not many of us left PD James fans.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Good discussion on good vs. evil. Everyone enjoyed this one.
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 | I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 This book was long for book group (over 700 pages) - but provided a good discussion on modern times on college campuses.
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 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Irish Family tale - short read.
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 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy used from: $0.01 Provided a great discussion on living in America on different wages.
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 | Jazz by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.46 Great discussion on love! Challenging read as Morrison ususally is.
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 | All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Buy used from: $0.01 Great, eye opening read! Everyone enjoyed this book and it provided a good discussion.
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 | March by Geraldine Brooks
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.99 If you haven't read Little Women - read it before you pick up March and you won't regret it. Beautifully written story - we loved it!
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 | The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $0.01 Good discussion book. Book itself received mixed reviews.
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