BYOB Book List
Here are the books we’ve chosen for the library’s BYOB: Bring Your Own Book discussion group.
2012 (through August)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
- My Fathers' Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging by Hannah Pool
- Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Bird Cloud: A Memoir by Annie Proulx
2011
- Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas - Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
- Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Klaled Hosseini
- Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2010
Note: The club started in the fall of 2010.
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Company by Max Barry
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris