Everything we’ve ever read!
Every once in a while, someone asks for a list of ALL GBC books and it sends me back in time to dig up the most recent list I made and add to it all the books since. So here is a complete GBC list for anyone interested! Beware – not all books are equal. In the early days of the GBC the way we chose our books wasn’t as considered as it is now. I’ve bolded any of the titles that really struck a home run with our groups!
| Change of Heart | Jodi Picoult |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortensen |
| Purple Hibiscus | Ghimimanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Glass Castle | Jeanette Walls |
| Marley & Me | John Grogan |
| Open House | Elizabeth Berg |
| The Gift | Cecelia Ahearn |
| Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts |
| Double Blind | Chris Bohjalian |
| Sarabande | Marcus Fedder |
| Twilight | Stephanie Myers |
| Passion | Louise Bagshawe |
| The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer |
| White Tiger | Aravind Adiga |
| Call in the Midwife | Jennifer Worth |
| Half Broke Horses | Jeanette Walls |
| Still Alice | Lisa Genova |
| We Need to talk about Kevin | Lionel Shaffer |
| The Various Flavours of Coffee | Anthony Capella |
| Stones into Schools | Greg Mortensen |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett |
| The Other Hand | Chris Cleaves |
| Single in the City | Michele Gorman |
| The Legacy | Katherine Webb |
| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch |
| One Day | David Nicholls |
| The Postmistress | Sarah Blake |
| Started Early, Took My Dog | Kate Atkinson |
| The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | Aimee Bender |
| The Slap | Christos Tsiolkas |
| The History of Love | Nicole Krauss |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon |
| I Don’t Know How She Does It | Allison Pearson |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein |
| A place called here | Cecelia Ahern |
| Sarah’s Key | Tatiana de Rosnay |
| Sister | Rosamund Lupton |
| Valeria’s Last Stand | Marc Fitten |
| The Lucky One | Nicholas Sparks |
| Same Kind of Different as Me | Ron Hall & Denver Moore |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern |
| The Spare Room | Helen Garner |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| The Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Laini Taylor |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zuska |
| Ada’s Rules | Paula McLain |
| Wool | Hugh Howey |
| The End of your Life Book Club | Will Schwalbe |
| Before I Go to Sleep | SJ Watson |
| The Universe Versus Alex Woods | Gavin Extence |
| The Shoemaker’s Wife | Adriana Trigiani |
| The Twelve Tribes of Hattie | Ayana Mathis |
| Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| The Universe Versus Alex Woods. | Gavin Extence |
| Necessary Lies | Diane Chamberlain |
| Reconstructing Amelia | Kimberly McCreight |
| The Fault in our Stars | John Green |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Katherine Boo. |
| The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden | Jonas Jonasson |
| The Husband’s Secret | Liane Moriarty |
| A House in the Sky | Amanda Lindhout |
| The Signature of All Things | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| We Were Liars | E.Lockhart |
| The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Claire North |
| Whistling Past the Graveyard | Susan Crandall |
| Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman |
| The Shock of the Fall | Nathan Filer |
| The Girl with All The Gifts | M.C Carey. |
| The Red Notebook | Antoine Laurain. |
| The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing | Mira Jacob |
| The Paying Guest | Sarah Waters |
| All The Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doer |
| The Grownup | Gillian Flynn |
| Station 11 | Emily St John Mandel |
| The Good Girl | Mary Kubica |
| The Life We Bury | Allen Eskens |
| The Secret Life Of Anna Blanc | Jennifer Kincheloe |
| What Alice Forgot | Liane Moriarty |
| Behind Closed Doors | B A Paris |
| The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah |
| When I’m Gone | Emily Bleeker |
| Only Daughter | Anna Snoekstra |
| The Pearl That Broke It’s Shell | Nadia Hashimi |
| Swear On This Life | Renee Carlino |
| Broken Angels | Gemma Liviero |
| My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry | Fredrik Backman |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
| The Unseen World | Liz Moore |
| It Ends With Us | Colleen Hoover |
| One True Loves | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| The Alice Network | Kate Quinn |
| The Nix | Nathan Hill |
| The Things We Wish Were True | Marybeth Whalen |
| I Am Watching You | Teresa Driscoll |
| Dark Matter | Blake Crouch |
| Lily and the Octopus | Steven Rowley |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee |
| The Dry | Jane Harper |
| This Is How It Always Is | Laurie Frankel |
| The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper | Phaedra Patrick |
| Tin Man | Sarah Winman |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
| Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows | Balli Kaur Jaswal |
| On A Cold Dark Sea | Elizabeth Blackwell |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
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2 Comments
Thanks Erin! There is a lot of work put into this. It also gives me reference to books I want to put on my reading list. I joined the 50 book club. 50 books in one year. Yikes. Thanks for you continued work you put into this group. Laura from the orillia chapter
I am adding the books that were read before my local chapter began to my goodreads list. I can’t find the book Ada’s Rules by Paula McLain. I found a book by that name by Alice Randall. Is that the correct book or is it another book by Paula McLain?