Gab Bag Titles
Fiction
Age of Desire – Jennie Fields
Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker
Ali and Nino – Kurban Said
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion – Fannie
Flagg
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
And the Mountains Echoed –Khaled Hosseini
Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner
Annie Dunne – Sebastian Barry
The Arsonist – Sue Miller
Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
Astonish Me – Maggie Shipstead*
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Away – Amy Bloom
Back When We Were Grownups – Anne Tyler
Barn Blind – Jane Smiley
Beekeeper's Apprentice – Laurie R. King
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain
Blue Water – A. Manette Ansay
The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
City of Thieves – David Benioff
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands – Chris Bohjalian
Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for
Lovers – Xiaolu Guo
The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
The Confidant – Helene Gremillon
Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Crossing Purgatory – Gary Schanbacher*
The Curiosity – Stephen Kiernan*
Dear Life – Alice Munro
The Dinner – Herman Koch
The Dog Stars – Peter Heller
The Dollmaker – Harriette Arnow
Dream of Scipio – Iain Pears
Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
English Creek – Ivan Doig
Euphoria – Lily King
Faith – Jennifer Haigh
The Family Fang – Kevin Wilson
Family Life – Akhil Sharma
Financial Lives of the Poets – Jess Walter
A Gathering of Old Men – Ernest J. Gaines
Getting Mother’s Body – Suzan-Lori Parks
The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins*
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee*
Good Faith – Jane Smiley
A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor*
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
The Great Man – Kate Christensen
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society –
Mary Ann Shaffer
Handling Sin – Michael Malone
Harvest – Jim Crace
The Heart Mender – Andy Andrews
Hearts of Horses – Molly Gloss
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Homestead – Rosina Lippi
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet –
Jamie Ford*
House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
The Hundred-Foot Journey – Robert Morais*
The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty*
The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachmann
In the Kingdom of Men – Kim Barnes
In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez
Into the Beautiful North – Luis Alberto Urrea
The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
The Inverted Forest – John Dalton
Island of Heavenly Daze – Lori Copeland
Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Known World – Edward P. Jones
The Last Empress – Anchee Min
Last One Home – Debbie Macomber*
The Last Report on the Miracles At
Little No Horse – Louise Erdrich
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog –
Andrew O’Hagan
The Lifeboat – Charlotte Rogan
The Light Between Oceans – M.L. Stedman
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven –
Sherman Alexie
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Lying Awake – Mark Salzman
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
The Mammy – Brendan O’Carroll
A Man Called Ove – Fredrick Backman*
March – Geraldine Brooks
Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Middlesteins – Jami Attenberg
Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem
Mudbound – Hilary Jordan
The Murder of My Aunt – Richard Hull
Murder Short and Sweet – collection
My Antonia – Willa Cather
No Great Mischief – Alistair MacLeod
A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
Other People’s Money – Justin Cartwright
Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
A Paris Apartment – Michelle Gable
Passing – Nella Larsen
The Pilot's Wife – Anita Shreve
The Pirate’s Daughter – Margaret
Cezaire-Thompson
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
The Quickening – Michelle Hoover
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
The Reivers – William Faulkner
The Rent Collector – Camron Steve Wright*
The Reservoir – John Milliken Thompson
The Road Home – Jim Harrison
The Royal Physician’s Visit – Per Enquist
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
The Solitude of Prime Numbers – Paolo Giordano
Someone – Alice McDermott
The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
Starting Out in the Evening – Brian Morton
State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
The Stone Angel – Margaret Laurence
The Submission – Amy Waldman
Sutton – J.R. Moehringer
Tara Road – Maeve Binchy
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
True Confections – Katharine Weber
True Memoirs of Little K – Adrienne Sharp
Twelve Tribes of Hattie – Ayana Mathis
Two Old Women – Velma Wallis
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards –
Kristopher Jansma
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
The Uninvited Guests – Sadie Jones
A Very Long Engagement – Sebastien Japrisot
The Viscount’s Daughter – Phyllis Haislip
Waiting – Ha Jin
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl – Fanny Flagg
The Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies
When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress – Ariel Lawson
The Wreath – Sigrid Undset
Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
Biography/Autobiography
Bettyville – George Hodgman*
Call the Midwife – Jennifer Worth
Catch Me If You Can- Frank Abagnale
Cleopatra – Stacy Schiff
Dewey: The Library Cat – Vicky Myron
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- Alexandra Fuller
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
God Never Blinks – Regina Brett
Kaffir Boy – Mark Mathabane*
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
Marley & Me – John Grogan
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Princess – Jean P. Sasson
Proof of Heaven – Eben Alexander
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- Anne Fadiman
Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
We Die Alone – David R. Howarth
West With the Night – Beryl Markham
The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston
Zealot – Reza Aslan
History
1776 – David McCullough
Beautiful Swimmers – William W. Warner
The Boys in the Boat – Daniel Brown (2 Bags)
Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
The Johnstown Flood – David McCullough
Love and Hate in Jamestown – David Price
Monuments Men – Robert M. Edsel
The Professor and the Madman
- Simon Winchester
Sex Lives of Cannibals – Maarten Troost
Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson
Wild Trees – Richard Preston
Current Events
Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
The Idea of America – William E. White
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
– Rebecca Skloot
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
Nothing to Envy – Barbara Demick
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat – Hal
Herzog
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*new titles / coming soon
August 2016