Book club favorites
Curious about what other clubs are reading? Check out our LitReads™ — three lists of popular book club books. (Updated 05-15-2012)

• New Books to Watch — new or recent releases
• LitLovers Top 50 — over the past month
• All-time Favorites — books we turn to over and over

Reading guides & Book Reviews
• Click on titles for the LitGuides™ Reading Guide
• Click on (*) for our LitPicks™ Book Review

American Heiress
Daisy Goodwin

Beginner's Goodbye
Ann Tyler

Blood, Bones & Butter
Gabrielle Hamilton

Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor

Dressmaker
Kate Alcott

Fault in Our Stars *
John Green

*Click on asterisks to see our Book Reviews.

Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal

Home
Toni Morrison

Imagine: How Creativity Works
Jonah Lehrer

Lost Memory of Skin
Russell Banks

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen

Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg

Shoemaker's Wife
Adriana Trigiani

UnBroken
Laura Hillenbrand

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

State of Wonder
Ann Patchett

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson

Sarah's Key
Tatiania de Rosnay

Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein

Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  *
Rebecca Skloot

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet  *
Jamie Ford

Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri

Book Thief  *
Markus Zusak

In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson

Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne

Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

Half Broke Horses  *
Jeannette Walls

Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks

Other Wes Moore
Wes Moore

Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann

Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff

Room
Emma Donoghue

Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton

Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht

Still Alice
Lisa Genova

Great House
Nicole Krauss

* Click on asterisks to see our Book Reviews.

Freedom
Jonathan Franzen

Visit from the Goon Squad  *
Jennifer Egan

Guernsey Literary...Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin

Imperfectionists  *
Tom Rachman

Postmistress
Sarah Blake

Olive Kitteridge  *
Elizabeth Strout

Devil in the White City
Erik Larson

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman

Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi

Paris Wife
Paula McLain

Fly Away Home
Jennifer Weiner

One Day
David Nicholls

Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson

Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer

The Shack
William P. Young

Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness

People of the Book  *
Geraldine Brooks

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer

Loving Frank  *
Nancy Horan

Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet  *
David Mitchell

Little Bee
Chris Cleave

Alchemist
Paulo Coelho

Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo

Scent of Rain and Lightning
Nancy Pickard