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Book Club Picks

2007-08

The Road (Henderson) Cormac McCarthy
The Seville Communion (Keough) Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Time Traveler's Wife (Pillow) Audrey Niffenegger
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Terninko) Malcolm Gladwell
The Lost Painting: the Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (A.King) Jonathan Harr
Rasputin's Daughter (Carter) Robert Alexander
Maisie Dobbs (Allen) Jacqueline Winspear

2006-07

Snowflower and the Secret Fan (King) September 6.5/7 Lisa See
The Screwtape Letters (Keough) October  (two had not read it) C.S. Lewis
The Girls (Pillow) November 3/7 (only because three members were not able to complete book) Lor Lanses
The Sparrow (Terninko) January 9/9 Mary Doria Russell
Life of Pi (Carter) 7/7 Yann Martel
The Glass Castle (Shores)  8/8 Jeanette Walls
The Lady and the Panda (Allen) Vicki Croke
The Worst Hard Times (McCommon) Timothy Egan
Slaughterhouse Five( King) Kurt Vonnegut

2005-2006

Thumbs Up-Recommended     Thumbs Down-Not Recommended       
Victoria's Daughter (Mc Common) Jerrold M. Packard
The Plot Against America (Keough) Phillip Roth
Love Medicine (King) Louise Erdrich
What's the Matter with Kansas (Carter) Thomas Frank
Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South (Allen) Richard Rubin
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Mc Common) Jon Krakaeur
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Henderson)        4/5 Azar Nafisi

Book Club Reads

Tis

Frank McCourt

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Salman Rushdee

Parable of the Sower

Octavia Butler

Professor and the Madman

Simon Winchester

First  Light

Charles Baxter

Delta Wedding

Eudora Welty

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest Gaines

Waiting

Ha Jin

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

Julia Alvarez

The Shipping News

E. Annie Proulx

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

The Sweet Here After

Russell Banks

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

City of God

E.L. Doctorow

Pope Joan

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean

Confederate’s in the Attic

Tony Horowitz

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Stiffed

Susan Fuladi

All Over But the Shoutin'

Rick Bragg

Why She Left Us

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
L.A. Confidential  James Ellroy
The Mixquiahuala Letters Ana Castillo
The Archivist Martha Cooley
Blowback Chalmers Johnson
Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter
The Next Step in the Dance Tim Gatreaux
The Map That Changed the World Simon Winchester
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
The Beak of the Finch Jonathan Weiner
Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich
Yonder Stands Your Orphan Barry Hannah
Basket Case Carl Hiassen
Rising Tide John Barry
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke
Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
North Toward Home Willie Morris
Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand
Mating Norman Rush
Jarhead Anthony Swofford
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
My Losing Season Pat Conroy
Cypress Grove James Sallis
Living History Hillary Clinton
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Eight Katherine Neville
Beyond Belief: The Gospel of Thomas (Carter) Elaine Pagels
Birth of Venus (Keough) Sarah Dunant
Fahrenheit 451 (Allen) Ray Bradbury

 

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