Good Morning America Says Hello to Book Sense Pick

It was another big week for Book Sense 76 picks on the network morning shows. On Wednesday, August 7, Good Morning America announced that The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown) was the latest book chosen by the show’s "Read This!" book club. The highly acclaimed novel by Alice Sebold was a top ten pick on the July/August Book Sense 76, nominated by Tripp Ryder of the Carleton College bookstore, in Northfield, Minnesota. [To read Ryder's Book Sense One on One interview with Sebold, click here.]

On Monday, August 5, the Today Show named the Adam Haslett short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here (Doubleday) as the latest pick of its "Today’s Book Club." The title, selected for the club by author Jonathan Franzen, was also a July/August Book Sense 76 title.

The selections continue a strong run for Book Sense titles as morning show book club picks. Other titles selected have included William Morrow’s Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles (GMA), Knopf’s The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer (GMA), and Knopf’s The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter (Today).