ReadingGroupGuides.com - Share Your 2010 Picks

The Results of Our “Share Your 2010 Picks” Are In!

From mid-December thru mid-February, we asked you to share what your book group read month-by-month in 2010. Thousands of you responded, and we enjoyed looking through your selections; seeing them told us something about your group. We are going to delve into these lists more in the upcoming months to see what, if any, trends emerge.

Click here to see the Top 25 Most Popular Reading Group Picks from 2010.

Sharing your selections automatically made your group eligible to win a collection of one of our 33 prize titles donated by publishers. Many of these titles are new 2011 releases, and some are still in advance reader edition format.

Click here to see our winners.

Click here to see a list of our prize titles.

Thanks for sharing your group’s picks, and we wish you another wonderful year of reading! And yes, for those who asked, we are planning to repeat this at the end of this year, so keep track of what your group is reading.

The Top 25 Most Popular Reading Group Picks for 2010 :

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
*The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
*The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
*Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
*The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
*People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
*The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

*An asterisk (*) indicates that the number of votes a book received is barely distinguishable from the book above it.

Contest Winners
Andrea from Fort Collins, CO
Ann from Highland Heights, OH
Ashley from Batesville, AR
Barbara from Groton, CT
Billy from North Salem, NY
BJ from Austin, TX
Bobbi from Easton, PA
Candice from Kansas City, MO
Chris from Albany, OR
Diane from Louisville, KY
Dottie from Raleigh, NC
Ellen from Staten Island, NY
Frankie from Mobile, AL
Freddy from Little Rock, AR
Gaymarie from Milton, PA
Jeffrey from Aurora, IL
Joan from Chattanooga, TN
JoAnn from Smithtown, NY
John from Middletown, OH
Joseph from Wyckoff, NJ
Judie from Valrico, FL
Julie from Middleton, ID
Karen from Locust Grove, VA
Linda from San Ardo, CA
Maggie from Senatobia, MS
Melvin from Roseville, MI
Pat from Venice, FL
Pat from Coolville, OH
Paula from Gansevoort, NY
Phyllis from Houston, TX
Scotty from Palm Coast, FL
Shawn from Springdale, AR
Susan from Saratoga Springs, NY

"Share Your 2010 Picks" Contest Prize Titles

Becoming George Sand by Rosalind Brackenbury
Being Polite to Hitler by Robb Dew
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
Drinking Closer to Home by Jessica Anya Blau
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
Galore by Michael Crummey
The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness by Brianna Karp
Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Haunting Jasmine by Anjali Banerjee
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson
The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson
The Murderer’s Daughter by Randy Susan Meyers
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook
Pao by Kerry Young
Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt
Precious and Fragile Things by Megan Hart
Saving June by Hannah Harrington
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom MacNeal
When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Noble
Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter by Lisa Patton
Wrecker by Summer Wood

CONTEST RULES

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ELIGIBILITY: The contest is open to all legal residents of the United States (excluding Puerto Rico) who are 18 years of age or older. The following persons and their dependents are not eligible to enter or win: employees of ReadingGroupGuides.com or The Book Report, Inc. and their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families (spouse, parents, siblings and children) of each of the above.

HOW TO ENTER: The contest is open from 9AM ET on Monday, December 6, 2010 thru 11:59 PM ET on Monday, February 21, 2011. While the contest is posted on ReadingGroupGuides.com, you can enter by filling out this form.

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ReadingGroupGuides.com/Year-End Selections Contest
The Book Report, Inc.
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All entries must be postmarked by Friday, February 18, 2011 and received by Monday, February 21, 2011. Please use a physical address as many services do not deliver to post office boxes.

HOW TO WIN: The total number of eligible entries received determines odds of winning. From all eligible entries received, ReadingGroupGuides.com will randomly select thirty-three (33) winners in February. Each winner will receive up to twelve (12) copies of one of the following titles:

Becoming George Sand by Rosalind Brackenbury
Being Polite to Hitler by Robb Dew
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
Drinking Closer to Home by Jessica Anya Blau
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
Galore by Michael Crummey
The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness by Brianna Karp
Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Haunting Jasmine by Anjali Banerjee
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson
The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson
The Murderer’s Daughter by Randy Susan Meyers
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook
Pao by Kerry Young
Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt
Precious and Fragile Things by Megan Hart
Saving June by Hannah Harrington
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom MacNeal
When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Noble
Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter by Lisa Patton
Wrecker by Summer Wood

POSTING OF PRIZE WINNERS: ReadingGroupGuides.com reserves the right to announce all entries and the winners on ReadingGroupGuides.com. The prize winners will be listed on ReadingGroupGuides.com by first name and city/state by Monday, February 28, 2010.

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