Here's our annual list of our 15 ongoing favorite book titles for book club discussions for 2012, gathered by the editors of ReadingGroupGuides.com. See if your group agrees with our choices, and make your own list of favorites!

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

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• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

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Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Color of Water by James McBride
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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