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Christopher’s Books Book Club Reading List
Here’s what we’ve been reading for the fourth Tuesday of the month. Where I went to the trouble to put a bookcover, you know it’s a personal favorite. Also, I’ve slipped in a few that the group didn’t read but that you couldn’t go without.
2008
The Gathering
Anne Enright
April 2008
Forever
Pete Hamill
March 2008
Dirt Music
Tim Winton
February 2008
Restless
William Boyd
January 2008
2007
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Nov/Dec 2007
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
October 2007
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
Don’t put it off!
Shroud
John Banville
August 2007
About Grace
Anthony Doerr
June 2007
The Wonder Spot
Melissa Bank
March 2007
March: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks
February 2007
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz
January 2007
2006
Zorro
Isabel Allende
December 2006
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
October 2006
Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Kim Edwards
September 2006
Saturday
Ian McEwan
Really great novel
August 2006
Last Orders
Graham Swift
June 2006
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
April 2006
Giant
O’Brien
Hilary Mantel
March 2006
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
February 2006
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
January 2006
2005
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
December 2005
Snow
Orhan Pamuk
September 2005
China Boy
Gus Lee
November 2005
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory
July 2005
Happiness
Will Ferguson
May 2005
Lying Awake
Mark Salzman
March 2005
A General Theory of Love
Thomas Lewis et. al.
A change-your-life sort of book
February 2005
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Andrew Sean Greer
January 2005
2004
The Stories of Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner
December 2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Mark Haddon
Wonderful read
November 2004
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Two hankies
October 2004
Empire Falls
Richard Russo
September 2004
The Known World
Edmund Jones
August 2004
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
July 2004
The Secret Lives of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
June 2004
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
May 2004
The Pieces from Berlin
Michael Pye
April 2004
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
March 2004
Where I Was From
Joan Didion
January 2004
2003
The DaVinci Code
Dan Brown
December 2003
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
October 2003
Educating Waverly
Laura Kalapian
September 2003
John Adams
David McCullough
August 2003
Caroline’s Daughters
Alice Adams
July 2003
Booneville
Robert Mailer Anderson
June 2003
The Vine of Desire
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
May 2003
The Girl from Zanzibar
Roger King
April 2003
Pere Goriot
Balzac
March 2003
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie
February 2003
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
January 2003
2002
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Marriage
Alice Munro
December 2002
Money
Martin Amis
October 2002
The Dive from Claussen’s Pier
Ann Packer
September 2002
How to Be Good
Nick Hornby
August 2002
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
July 2002
The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch
June 2002
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
May 2002
Atonement
Ian McEwan
April 2002
Second Hand
Michael Zadoorian
March 2002
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
February 2002
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
January 2002
2001
The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes
Christopher Bram
November 2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
October 2001
In the Name of Salome
Julia Alvarez
September 2001
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
August 2001
Sharmila’s Book
Bharti Kirchner
July 2001
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
June 2001
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Amy Tan
May 2001
The Vision of Emma Blau
Ursula Hegi
April 2001
Corelli’s Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
March 2001
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier
February 2001
River, Cross My Heart
Breena Clarke
January 2001
2000
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
December 2000
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
October 2000
Bodily Harm
Margaret Atwood
August 2000
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank
July 2000
Timbuktu
Paul Auster
June 2000
Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama
May 2000
Different Seasons
Stephen King
April 2000
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
March 2000
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
January 2000
1999
Eucalyptus
Murray Bail
November 1999
Harvest Son
David Mas Masumoto
October 1999
Blu’s Hanging
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
September 1999
Lost in Translation
Nicole Mones
July 1999
Enduring Love
Ian McEwan
June 1999
Stones from the River
Ursula Hegi
May 1999
The Long Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
April 1999
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
March 1999
The Sweet Hereafter
Russell Banks
February 1999
The Perfect Storm
Sebastian Junger
January 1999
1998
A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr
December 1998
Beloved
Toni Morrison
November 1998
The Color of Water
James McBride
October 1998
None to Accompany Me
Nadine Gordimer
September 1998
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
August 1998
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
July 1998
Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
June 1998
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
May 1998
Atticus
Ron Hansen
April 1998