 | My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Buy used from: $2.38 C's pick
Our first book - we loved it! We wholeheartedly recommend the book over the 2009 movie.
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 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 1) by Ann Brashares
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 B's pick - she served raw cookie dough; so fun!
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 | The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $18.87 / Used from: $6.98 MB's pick - we liked the book and loved the Trader Joe's trail mix!
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 | Tara Road: Oprah Selection #26 by Maeve Binchy
Buy used from: $1.55 K's pick - at her new condo!
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 | Resistance: A Novel by Anita Shreve
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 D's pick
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 | Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $0.04 S's pick
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 | The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $7.10 P's pick - one of D's favorites
'Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.' (Leah)
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 | Prayer for Owen Meany by Irving John
Buy used from: $9.96 B's pick
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: $2.83 Ka's pick - we enjoyed the Detroit references
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 | Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.50 C's pick - and the dinner to-die for...
autumnal salad, potato-apple latkes, 3 cheese polenta, roast, and pumpkin mousse cream puffs. Can you say yummy?
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 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 D's pick - perhaps our first foray into picking an unread book, relying on reviews; we didn't care for it which prompted a great discussion about why a book might receive such seemingly unwarranted reviews.
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 | Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.59 Ka's pick
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 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $5.95 P's pick
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 | One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.00 S's pick
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 | Water for Elephants (Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers) by Sara Gruen
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.32 P's pick - another group favorite
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 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $5.54 B's pick - we enjoyed the textual features and talked about what publishers are doing now help print stay relevant to readers in the digital age.
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 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.82 P's pick
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 | London Is the Best City in America by Laura Dave
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 K's pick
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 | One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1) by Janet Evanovich
Buy used from: $0.01 S's pick
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 | Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $0.01 K's pick
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 | Mountains Beyond Mountains: by Tracy Kidder
Buy used from: $6.50 C's pick
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 | Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back (P.S.) by Claire Fontaine
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.25 J's pick - very intense
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 | Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.48 D's pick - the night the power went out
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 | The Ha-Ha: A Novel by Dave King
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $0.01 MB's pick
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 | The House of Gentle Men: A Novel by Kathy Hepinstall
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.01 P's pick
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 | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.39 Di's - went to the fondue restaurant in Novi
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 | Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 SL's pick
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 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $12.69 B's pick - so clever
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 | The Wedding Officer: A Novel (Bantam Discovery) by Anthony Capella
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.01 K's pick - right before she left us for London!
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 | The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.41 C's pick - had brunch at Cafe Zola in AA
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 | Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.45 D's pick - we visited the AA Farmer's Market and Zingerman's Deli
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 | Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life by Sophie Uliano
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.95 B's pick - we shared all our eco-friendly products that we'd been trying out
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 | Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in) by James McBride
Buy new: $5.28 / Used from: $2.47 Di's pick - we went to the DIA and saw the From Dali to Monet exhibit
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 | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.70 MB's pick - a bit of a tome, but really worth it
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 | City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.00 P's pick - the night of yummy coconut chicken! Peggy warned us of a gruesome part (in the book, not the chicken) which really heightened our 'cringe factor' whenever the writing started to get even a little violent. We kept thinking - is this the part?
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 | The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.07 B's pick - funny and poignant
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 | The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.72 B's pick
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $11.75 / Used from: $10.45 C's pick
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 | Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 D's pick - recommended for any educator and especially mothers of daughters
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 | Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.10 Di's pick - everything was yummy, but how about the slush drink and the broccoli slaw!
If you like this list, be sure to check out List 2!
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