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And our favorite books are:

With 21 votes, the winner is:

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Magically second with 18 votes is:

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

"Helped" by the movie, no doubt with 16 votes:

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

tied with:

Room - Emma Donoghue

43 days at and yet:

Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(with 12 votes)

Caliente! With 10 votes:

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

All new episodes in April, with 8 votes:

A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin

Out of creative commentary - 7 votes each:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese

6 Votes Each:

11/22/63 - Stephen King
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson

5 Votes each

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Matched - Ally Condie
Doc - Mary Doria Russell
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jaime Ford
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay

4 Votes each

The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Book Thief - Markus Zasuk
Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

3 Votes each, and some VERY worthy titles!

Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame Smith
Smokin' Seventeen - Janet Evanovich
Across the Universe - Beth Revis
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
Bossypants - Tina Fey
The Passage - Justin Cronin
Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
City of Thieves - David Benioff
One Day - David Nicholls
Delirium - Lauren Oliver
Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart
Divergent - Veronica Roth
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
22 Britannia Road - Amanda Hodgkinson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
Faithful Place - Tana French
The Peach Keeper - Sarah Addison Allen
Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

(wow, we had a lot more members back then!)


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