Here's our annual list of our 25 new favorite book titles for book club discussions for 2009, gathered by the editors of ReadingGroupGuides.com. See if your group agrees with our choices, and make your own list of favorites!

31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Oxygen by Carol Cassella
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Perfection by Julie Metz
The Photographer by Didier Lefèvre and Emmanuel Guibert
Rainwater by Sandra Brown
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Testimony by Anita Shreve
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
World Without End by Ken Follett

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
World Without End by Ken Follett

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
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
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
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
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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Atonement by Ian McEwan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

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