Here are our past book picks in the Blue Elephant Book Group.

2012

02/2012 At the End of the Road by Grant Jerkins + a visit from the author!

01/2012 When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

2011

12/2011 The Weekend by Peter Cameron

11/2011 The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta

10/2011 This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

09/2011 How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

08/2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

07/2011 Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo

06/2011 Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

05/2011 A Blessing on the Moon by Joseph Skibell

04/2011 Just Kids by Patti Smith

03/2011 The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

02/2011 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

01/2011 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

2010

12/2010 A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

11/2010 The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter

10/2010 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

09/2010 Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys

08/2010 The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

07/2010 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

06/2010 Little Bee by Chris Cleaves

05/2010 Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James

04/2010 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

03/2010 Away by Amy Bloom

02/2010 Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

01/2010 City of Thieves by David Benioff

2009

12/2009 Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

11/2009 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

10/2009 The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

09/2009 Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas

08/2009 Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

07/2009 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

06/2009  Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

05/2009 The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

04/2009 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

03/2009 The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle

02/2009 Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks

01/2009 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2008

12/2008 The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones

11/2008 The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux

10/2008 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

09/2008 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen