Book Club Reading List

Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
January/February 2012

Bangkok 8
John Burdett
November/December 2011

A Gate at the Stairs
Loorie Moore
October 2011

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet**
David Mitchell
September 2011

Ivan and Misha: Stories
Michael Alenyikov
July 2011

Tinkers
Paul Harding
extra credit

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
May 2011

Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris
Wow!

A Visit from the Goon Squad**
Jennifer Egan
April 2011

Solar*
Ian Mcewan
My favorite writer!

Zeitoun*
Dave Eggers
One of Dave's best I think.

Wishin' and Hopin'
Wally Lamb
March 2011

The Imperfectionists*
Tom Rachman
February 2011

South of Broad
Pat Conroy
January 2011

Walks with Men
Ann Beattie
October 2010

The Lacuna*
Barbara Kingsolver
September 2010

Little Bee
Chris Cleave
August 2010

Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky
July 2010

Let the Great World Spin**
Colum McCann
May 2010

The Song Is You
Arthur Phillips
About longing
and pop music

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close**
Jonathan Safran Foer
Energetic and moving

Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
April 2010

Summertime
J. M. Coetzee
March 2010

Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
extra credit Jackson Brodie

One Good Turn
Kate Atkinson
extra credit Jackson Brodie

The Amateur Marriage
Anne Tyler

Bridge of Sighs*
Richard Russo
Really a lovely book

The Lazarus Project*
Aleksandar Hemon
A knockout!

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
January 2010

2009 Bookgroup Reads

Eventide
Kent Haruf
December 2009

The Art of Racing in the Rain**
Garth Stein
October 2009
(three hankie book!)

The Outlander
Gil Adamson
September 2009

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
August 2009

America America
Ethan Canin
Bonus book

Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri
July 2009

Olive Kitteridge*
Elizabeth Strout
June 2009

Emergency Sex And Other Desperate Measures
Kenneth Cain
May 2009

The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
April 2009

Lush Life
Richard Price
March 2009

The Elegance of the Hedgehog *
Muriel Barbery
February 2009

The Distant Land of My Father
Bo Caldwell
January 2009

2008 Bookgroup Reads

The Echo Maker
Richard Powers
December 2008

The Story of a Marriage*
Andrew Sean Greer
September 2008

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie Ofarrell
August 2008

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
July 2008

Ten Days in the Hills
Jane Smiley
June 2008

Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
May 2008

The Gathering**
Anne Enright
April 2008

Forever
Pete Hamill
March 2008

Dirt Music*
Tim Winton
February 2008

Restless
William Boyd
January 2008

2007 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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 Bookgroup Reads

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