OCOB 2009: Water for Elephants

Circus
Hidden Places by Austin
Tobacco Road by Caldwell
Circus in Winter by Day
Metropolis: a novel by Gaffney
Blood and Circuses: a Phryne Fisher Mystery
by Greenwood
Hannah's Dream: a novel by Hammond
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Hough
Waterborne by Murkoff
The Aerialist by Schmitt
Sea Glass by Shreve
Masters of Illusion: a Novel of the Connecticut
Circus Fire by Smith

Aging
The Sea by Banville
Lemon Table by Barnes
The Final Solution by Chabon

Trains
Christmas Train by Baldacci
Murder on the Orient Express by Christie
On the Wrong Track by Hockensmith
Parallel Lies by Pearson

Elephants
The White Bone by Gowdy

The Great Depression
Paper Moon (formerly Addie Pray) by Brown
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Chabon
Billy Bathgate by Doctorow
Loon Lake by Doctorow
World's Fair by Doctorow
Bucking the Sun by Doi
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café

by Flagg
A Week From Sunday by Garlock
A Cure for Dreams by Gibbons
North River by Hamill
Ironweed by Kennedy
Oh My Stars by Landvik
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Daddy was a Number Runner by Meriwether
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Pressfield
Night Freight by Rice
Cannery Row by Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
A Room of My Own by Tatlock
All the King's Men by Warren