Cool Idea: One Book Group Meeting, Many Books

The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, N.C., has launched a reading group "where everyone decides to read a different, but similar book." The first session was held February 27 and was led by David Carr, professor of library science at UNC-Chapel Hill, who suggested the program to the store. The theme of the first meeting of Books in a Bunch is "memoirs of early life." Participants are being asked to read at least one or two of these books.

• Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
• Cherry and The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• Dreams from My Father by Senator Barack Obama
• Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
• This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
• A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel
• The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
• Falling Through the Earth by Danielle Trussoni
• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
• My Detachment by Tracy Kidder
• The GlassCastle by Jeannette Walls.