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The book club selections by the staff at the Contra Costa Times from 1997-2007. This book club is now defunct.
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The Kite Runner
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Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
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The Samurai's Garden
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About a Boy
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
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Evening
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3.39 avg rating — 4,976 ratings
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The Tortilla Curtain
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T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 34,336 ratings
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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Rebecca Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 567,347 ratings
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House of Sand and Fog
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
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Daughter's Keeper
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Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,130 ratings
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When the Emperor Was Divine
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Purple Hibiscus
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,691,459 ratings
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Black Girl in Paris
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The Chin Kiss King
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Ana Veciana-Suarez (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Amy and Isabelle
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Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 32,766 ratings
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The Weight of Water
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Peace Like a River
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Atticus
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The Romance Reader
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The Giant's House
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All Over But the Shoutin'
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The Feast of Love
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City of Your Final Destination
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier
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Ann Packer (Goodreads Author)
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Middlesex
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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
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Carter Beats the Devil
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Glen David Gold (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 14,054 ratings
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Mary and O'Neil
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,434 ratings
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The Namesake
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The Brief History of the Dead
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
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3.78 avg rating — 18,639 ratings
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Motherless Brooklyn
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A Regular Guy
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3.15 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Water, Carry Me
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The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
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The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy
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One Hundred and One Ways: A Novel
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An Equal Music
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The Girl in the Photograph
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The Museum Guard
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Lost in Translation
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Nicole Mones (Goodreads Author)
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Caucasia
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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The Family Markowitz
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Allegra Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Ugly Ways
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Maiden Voyage
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The Light of Falling Stars
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J. Robert Lennon (Goodreads Author)
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The Man Who Ate the 747
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The Book of Joe
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Outside Valentine
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An Invisible Sign of My Own
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Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author)
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Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia
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Ghostwritten
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The Death of Vishnu
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Black White and Jewish
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Edgewater Angels
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The Virgin's Knot
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3.55 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Three Junes
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The Last Good Chance
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When the Elephants Dance
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Tess Uriza Holthe (Goodreads Author)
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A Girl From Zanzibar
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3.50 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Man Walks into a Room
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A Million Little Pieces
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Easter Island
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3.71 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
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Old School
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Sleep Toward Heaven
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Bitter Milk
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Crossing California
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The Ghost Writer
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The Green Age of Asher Witherow
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The Family Tree
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The Ha-Ha
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Articles of War
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Maybe a Miracle
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A Sudden Country
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Any Bitter Thing
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Remainder
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The Keep
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The Perfect Man
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