Reading Group Picks


A selection of what some Cook County book groups are reading.

Women's Book Group
  • Spirit Car, Diane Wilson
  • The Postmistress, Sarah Blake
  • Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
No Guilt Book Group
  • The Fault in our Stars, John Green
  • Picking Cotton, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Ronald Cotton
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Burbery
Bookies
  • The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
  • The Cave, Jose Saramago
  • The Translator, Leila Abuela
The Book Trouts
  • These Hidden Things, Heather Gudenkauf
  • The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Care Center Book Group
  • The Persian Pickle Club, Sandra Dallas
  • A History of Lutsen, Rober McDowell
  • Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Avid Readers Book Group
  • The All of It, Jeannette Haigen
  • Illuminations, Mary Sharratt
  • Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier
West End Book Group
  • Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman
  • Wild, Cheryl Strayed
  • State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Whole Lot of Women, Wine and Words
  • Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
  • The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
  • The Coffins of Little Hope, Timothy Schaffert
Book Lover's Club
  • Sister, Rosamund Lupton
  • Ru, Kim Thuy
  • Death of a Red Heroine, Qiu Xiaolong
No Name Book Group
  • How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
  • Blood, Bones & Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton
  • The River Wife, Janis Agee
Pincushion Book Group
  • Bossypants, Tina Fey
  • Independent People, Halldor Kiljan Laxness
  • Bringing up Bebe, Pamela Druckerman
Westenders
  • Deep Water Passage, Ann Linnea
  • A Simple Act of Gratitude, John Kralik
  • The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
Boundary Waters Book Group
  • Little Bee, Chris Cleave
  • The Tie that Binds, Kent Haruf
  • Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter