Ideas for upcoming book selections:

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Jo, Deanne)
• Susan Grafton's I is for Innocent (or some other letter of the alphabet) (Jo)
• Novels by Edwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker (novel in stories), The Farming of Bones (Janet)
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (2009)
• Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Don, Jeff)
• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Allan)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West

News

• NPR Picks for Best Foreign Fiction in 2009
• NPR: Best Books of 2009
• NY Times: 10 Best Books of 2009
• Powells Staff Picks Book List
• EarlyWord: News for Collection Development and Readers Advisory Librarians
• Time Magazine's 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present

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