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Dan Chaon: Await Your Reply: A Novel
3 different stories that come together in the end. Interesting story. Suspenseful but in the end it just didn't do it for me.
Paul Harding: Tinkers
I had a hard time getting through this. A man lays dying while he travels deep into his memory about the life he lead.
Kevin Michael Connolly: Double Take: A Memoir
Moving memoir of a guy born without any legs. His parents raised him as they would have raised him with legs. The story is of his travels while coming of age and navigating the life he wants to live. Pretty impressive.
Martha McPhee: Dear Money
Fascinating book. The pressures and desires to keep up with the Jones. Insightful, thought provoking, clever. Great book club read.
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Brilliant
Diana Welch: The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir
Fantastic book. 4 kids write their own story of life after losing their parents. Incredible.
Joe Andoe: Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed (P.S.)
Life story of an artist who lived like Hunter S. Thompson. Amazing story. Little big of luck and lots of smarts.
John Heilemann: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
A must read book about the race for the Presidency.
Jonathan Dee: The Privileges: A Novel
uber-wealthy couple that start in college. their sheltered children who grow into lost adults. people that i see from afar in manhattan. no interest in their lives. ugh.
Dennis Lehane: The Given Day: A Novel
Historical fiction set in Boston, 1919. Great read, interesting characters, well written. 720 pages.
Mary Karr: Lit: A Memoir
There is a reason this book is on everyone's top books for 2009. Incredible read, wonderful writer, amazing tale of Karr's discovery of eventual sobriety.
Carolyn Slaughter: Before the Knife
Wow. Growing up in Africa when the British ruled. Raped at 6 and then repeatedly by her father for years which she kept suppressed for decades. Thank god these things are not so easily swept under the carpet anymore. Incredible story.
Mitch Albom: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
Loved it. An intellectual question of faith of Albom's relationship with a rabbi and a priest. A must read.
J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace: A Novel
Second book I have read of Coetzee and I need to read more as each has left me thinking about the book for quite a while. Follows a 52 year old professor, a womanizer who is asked to leave the University after an affair with a student. He takes refuge with his daughter in the outback. The book is dark, layered and tragic. Coetzee is an incredible writer. I think of him as an Australian Philip Roth.
Heather Gudenkauf: The Weight of Silence
Start early because it will hard to put down. 2 - 7 year old girls are missing and mystery unfolds. Each chapter is the voice of a different character which moves you quickly through the story, and of course seeing all sides. Clever, first novel, quick read, well done. Lots to discuss. Could be a great book read, especially for women.

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