Reading Group Picks


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

Women's Book Group
  • Haunted Ground, Erin Hart
  • The Florist's Daughter, Patricia Hampl
  • Little Bee, Chris Cleave
  • Lit, Mary Karr
  • The Bell, Iris Murdoch
  • Tasting the Sky, Ibtisam Barakat
  • 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
  • Return to Willow Water, Jean Husby
  • News to Me, Laurie Hertzel
No Guilt Book Group
  • Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
  • Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
  • The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan
  • Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
  • Lake of Sorrows, Erin Hart
Bookies
  • Lessons Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
  • Saturday, Ian McEwan
  • The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad
  • The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
  • Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
  • Strange as the Weather Has Been, Ann Pancake
Care Center Book Group
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • Woman of the Boundary Waters, Justine Kerfoot
  • A Country Doctor's Casebook, Roger MacDonald
  • Betsy and Saganaga, Betsy Powell
  • Downtown Grand Marais, Eugene Glader
  • The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
Avid Readers Book Group
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
  • Caramello, Sandra Cisneros
  • Passing, Nella Larsen
  • Italian Shoes, Henning Mankell
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
  • Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Whole Lot of Women, Wine and Words
  • The Help, Kathryn Stockett
  • The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, Rebecca Wells
  • Champ, Marsha Thornton Jones
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
  • Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
  • The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
No Name Book Group
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
  • Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Dracula, Bram Stoker
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
  • Conversations with Myself, Nelson Mandela
Pincushion Book Group
  • Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
  • West with the Night, Beryl Markham
  • A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
  • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
  • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua
  • Rat, Ferranda Eberstadt
Boundary Waters Book Group
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
  • Hard Times, Charles Dickens
  • Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
  • True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
  • Operating Instructions, Bird by Bird, Blue Shoe, Ann Lamott
  • The Corrections, Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Book Lovers Club
  • The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
  • The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
  • Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
West End Book Group
  • Swallow the Ocean, Laura M. Flynn
  • Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
  • Moloka'i, Alan Brennert
  • Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Arlene Blum
  • Woman, an Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys