Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
Book Review: From NYTimes.com
Reading Guide: From BookBrowse.com
About the Author: From TheManBookerPrize.com

Innocent Cities - Jack Hodgins
Set in Victoria in 1881, Innocent Cities weaves together the lives and lies of an entire community. Rich with intrigue, warm humour, and a memorable cast of characters, this novel is a compelling tale from one of Canada’s finest writers.
Book Review: From Amazon.ca
About the Author: From McClelland.com

Invisible Wall: A Love Story that Broke Barriers - Harry Berstein
The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It was identical to countless other streets in countless other working-class neighborhoods of the early 1900s, except for the “invisible wall” that ran down its center, dividing Jewish families on one side from Christian families on the other. Only a few feet of cobblestones separated Jews from Gentiles, but socially, it they were miles apart. On the eve of World War I, Harry’s family struggles to make ends meet. His father earns little money at the Jewish tailoring shop and brings home even less, preferring to spend his wages drinking and gambling. Harry’s mother, devoted to her children and fiercely resilient, survives on her dreams: new shoes that might secure Harry’s admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might marry the local rabbi; that the entire family might one day be whisked off to the paradise of America. Then Harry’s older sister, Lily, does the unthinkable: She falls in love with Arthur, a Christian boy from across the street. When Harry unwittingly discovers their secret affair, he must choose between the morals he’s been taught all his life, his loyalty to his selfless mother, and what he knows to be true in his own heart.
Book Review: From independent.co.uk
Reading Guide: From RandomHouse.com
About the Author: From Bookclubs.ca

The Jane Austen Book Club – Karen Fowler
Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels in this comedy of contemporary manners. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens.
Book Review: From Amazon.com
Reading Guide: From Penguingroup.com
About the Author: From Bookbrowse.com

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Written against a history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed
Book Review: From Amazon.ca
Reading Guide: From Penguinputnam.com
About the Author: From ReadingGroupGuides.com

Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay
Book Review: From QuillandQuire.com
Reading Guide: From BookClubs.ca
About the Author: From ElizabethHay.com

Law of Dreams - Peter Behrens
Book Review: From NYTimes.com
Reading Guide: From RandomHouse.com
About the Author: From RandomHouse.com

Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Pi Patel, a young man from India, tells how he was shipwrecked and stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days. Martel's novel is a fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient. It is an impressive achievement "a story that will make you believe in God," as one character says. Winner of the 2002 Booker Prize for Fiction.
Book Review: From Amazon.com
Reading Guide: From BookSense.com
About the Author: From RandomHouse.ca

The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Hollinghurst's fourth novel was the winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Set in London during the boom years of the 1980s, Hollinghurst's gay hero, Nick Guest, undertakes his own private pursuit of beauty.
Book Review: From Amazon.ca
Reading Guide: From Washingtonpost.com
About the Author: From Contemporarywriters.com

Little Bee - Chris Cleave
Book Review: From WashingtonPost.com
Reading Guide: From SimonandSchuster.com
About the Author: From ChrisCleave.com

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita chronicles the life of its narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, focusing on his disastrous love affair with a young girl. In this dark, comic novel, Nabokov paints a complex portrait of obsession that reveals Humbert to be both a middle-aged monster and a wild romantic who fails to attain his ideal.
Book Review: From complete-review.com
Reading Guide: From randomhouse.com/
About the Author: From wikipedia.org

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. In the hands of Alice Sebold, and through the eyes of her winning young heroine, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful, touching, even funny novel about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.
Book Review: From Amazon.ca
Reading Guide: From ReadingGroupGuides.com
About the Author: From Readinggroupguides