Book Picks for 2011

Here's the list of books that the Book Club of Our Own selected to read this year:

January/The River Why by David James Duncan

February/The Help by Kathryn Stockett

March/Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, disorienting World of the Flight Attendant by Drew Whitelegg

April/Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

May/The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
(Photo of Henrietta Lacks and her husband, David, left)

June/Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
(Photo Roosevelt, 23, and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,20, his fifth cousin once removed, several months after their March wedding. May 7, 1905, Newburgh, NY, left)

July/Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings and Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
(Photo of Gertrude Bell, left)

August/I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

September/ The Book Seller of Kabul by Asne Seriestad

October/Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

November/The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
(Photo book cover, left)

December / Book Selection Party for 2012