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Past Book Selections by the Philadelphia Regional and the Center City Philadelphia Book Clubs:
Fear of Dying, Erica Jong
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
On the Move: A Life, by Oliver Sacks
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, by Alexandra Fuller
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway.
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O’Connor
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Whistling Vivaldi: how stereotypes affect us and what we can do by Claude M. Steele
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, the Free Library’s “One Book, One Philadelphia” selection for 2014.
Are We There Yet? The Ultimate Road Trip: Adopting and Raising 22 Kids! By Hector and Sue Badeau
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Moloka’I by Alan Brennert
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (Smith’s summer reading selection)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras, translated by Frank Wynne
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (the Free Library’s “One Book, One Philadelphia” selection for 2013)
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (short stories) by Karen Russell.
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
Dreaming in French: the Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, by Alice Kaplan. (Required reading for 2012 first-year Smithies!)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Better or Complications, by Atul Gawande
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat (part of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s One Book, One Philadelphia program).
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
In the Country of Men by Hasham Matar
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, by Alexandra Fuller.
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (Smith ‘86).
Daughters of the Revolution, by Carolyn Cooke.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey.
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.
The Night Circus, by Erin Morganstern ’00.
The Devil and Dr. Barnes: Portrait of an American Art Collector, by Howard Greenfield.
Art Held Hostage: the Battle over the Barnes Collection, by John Anderson
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