Book Club Reading Lists

2012

• Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass
• Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

2011

• Half-Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
• Dark Tide by Stephen Puleo and The
• Given Day by Dennis Lehane
• Love and Summer (2009) by William Trevor
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2010) by Walter Mosley
• Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

2010

• Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
• Home by Marilynne Robinson
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
• Family Album by Penelope Lively
• Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
• Down the Nile by Rosemary Mahoney

2009

• Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
• North River by Pete Hamill
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• Animal Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
• Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Reading list 2007 – 2012

(arranged alphabetically by author):

• Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
• Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War
• Dickens, Charles. Bleak House
• Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit
• Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment
• Eliot, George. Adam Bede
• Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere’s Ride
• Gaskell, Elizabeth. Wives and Daughters
• Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun
• Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea
• Hersey, John. Hiroshima
• Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm
• Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (in conjunction with One Book One Belmont)
• le Carre, John. A Perfect Spy
• Mortenson, Greg and Relin, David Oliver. Three Cups of Tea (in conjunction with One Book One Belmont)
• Nemirovsky, Irene. Suite Francaise
• Puleo, Stephen. Dark Tide (in conjunction with One Book One Belmont)
• Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front
• Shakespeare, William. King Lear
• Suskind, Ron. A Hope in the Unseen
• Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club
• Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
• Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina
• Trollope, Anthony. The Way We Live Now
• Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter
• Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust
• Wharton, Edith. The Glimpses of the Moon

2001 to 2011

• My Brother, My Sister & I Yoko Kawashima Watkins
• Blizzard’s Wake Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Taste of Salt: The Story of Modern Haiti Frances Temple (A physician who had spent time in Haiti joined us for the discussion…was a great addition)
• Blackwater Eve Bunting
• Overboard Fama
• Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Stranger Next Door Peg Kehret
• The Wish List Eoin Colfer
• City Of Ember Jean DuPray
• Money Hungry Sharon Flake
• Tunes For Bears To Dance To Robert Cormier
• Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech
• Lily’s Ghosts Laura Ruby
• Give a Boy a Gun Todd Strasser
• To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
• Gathering Blue Lois Lowry
• The Giver Lois Lowry
• Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen
• Howl’s Moving Castle DW Jones
• Enders Game Orson Card Scott
• Good Night, Mr. Tom Caroline Cooney
• Hope Was Here John Bauer
• Tangerine John Bloor
• Rascal Sterling North
• The Star of Kazan Eva Ibbotson
• The Ear, The Eye, And The Arm Nancy Farmer
• Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers
• Incident At Hawk’s Hill Allan W. Eckert & John Schoenherr
• A Child Called It David Pelzer
• Hoot Carl Hiaasen
• My Dog Skip William Morris
• Banner In The Sky James Ramsey Ullman
• Blizzard’s Wake Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Marley and Me John Grogan
• Bud Not Buddy Christopher Curtis
• My Brother, My Sister and I Yoko Kowashima
• Edgar Allen John Newfield
• All of the Susan Cooper’s books…..e.g. The Dark Is Rising etc….
• If You Come Softly Jacqueline Woodson
• The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
• The Last Book in the Universe Rodman Philbrick
• If You Come Softly Jacqueline Woodson
• The Secret Live of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
• Home of the Brave Katherine Applegate
• Alana, Song of the Lioness Tamora Pierce
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Jacqueline Kelly
• Black Duck Janet Taylor Lisle
• Some have been chosen twice…..

Not sure when read:

• Bonfire of the Vanities        Tom Wolff
• The Poisonwood Bible        Barbara Kingsolver
• Beloved                Toni Morrison
• Anna Karennina            Leo Tolstoy
• A Room of One’s Own        Virginia Woolf
• The Bridges of Madison County    James Walker
• The Dubliners                James Joyce
• The Hiding Place            Trezza Azzopardi
• The Sound of Waves            Yukio Mishiama
• The Country Girls            Edna O’Brien
• Ahab’s Wife                Sena Jeter Naslund
• In the Beauty of the Lilies        John Updike
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil    John Berendt

As of January, 2002 or thereabouts

• A Long Fatal Love Chase    Louisa May Alcott
• A Month in the Country    J.L. Carr
• An American Requiem    James Carroll
• Annie John    Jamaica Kincaid
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum
• Bel Canto    Ann Patchett
• Billy Bathgate    E.L. Doctorow
• Breathing Lessons    Ann Tyler
• Caucasia    Denzy Senna
• Charming Billy    Alice McDermott
• Cod    Mark Kurlansky
• Cold Mountain    James Frazier
• Daughter of Fortune    Isabel Allende
• Disgrace    J.M. Coetze
• Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisters    Rebecca Wells
• Emma     Jane Austin
• Enduring Love    Ian McEuan
• Girl With a Pearl Earring    Tracy Chevalier
• God of Small Things    Arundhati Roy
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone    J. K. Rawling
• Hotel DuLac    Brookner
• House of the Spirits    Isabel Allende
• Howard’s End    E.M. Forester
• Human Stain    Philip Roth
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings    Maya Angelou
• Interpreter of Maladies    Jhumpa Lahiri
• Islam    Karen Armstrong
• Joys of Motherhood    Buch Emecheta
• Kate Atkinson
• Last Orders    Graham Swift
• Love in the Time of Cholera    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Madame Bovary    Gustave Flaubert
• Moo    James Smiley
• Mrs. Dalloway    Virginia Wolf
• My Son’s Story    Nadime Gordimer
• Nine Parts of Desire    Geraldine Brooks
• No Ordinary Time    Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Object Lessons    Ann Quindlen
• Old Bones
• Open Secrets    Alice Munro
• Possessions    Byatt
• Quartet in Autumn    Barbara Pym
• Restauration    Rose Tremain
• Segu    Maryse Conde
• Smiley’s Sense of Snow    Peter Hoeg
• Snow Falling on Cedars    David Guterson
• Song of Solomon    Toni Morrison
• Sons and Lovers    D.H. Lawrence
• Still Life    A.S. Byatt
• The Atonement    Ian McEwan
• The Awakening    Kate Chopin
• The Beggar Maid    Alice Munro
• The Bluest Eye    Toni Morrison
• The Color of Water    James McBride
• The Country of the Pointed Firs    Sarah Jewett
• The Diviners    Margaret Lawrence
• The English Patient    Ondaatie
• The Family Orchard    Nomi Eve
• The Ginger Tree    Oswald Wynd
• The Joy Luck Club    Amy Tan
• The Ladies of Misalonghi
• The Lighthouse    Virginia Wolf
• The Map of Love    Ahdaf Soueif
• The Photographer’s Wife    Robert Sole
• The Professor and the Madman    Simon Winchester
• The Red Tent    Diane Diamant
• The Remains of the Day    Ishiguru
• The River King    Alice Hoffman
• The Road to Corrain    Jill Kerr Conway
• The Samurai’s Garden    Gail Tsukiyama
• The Sheltering Sky    Boules
• The Snapper    Roddy Doyle
• The Sound and the Fury    Faulkner
• The Stone Diaries    Carol Shield
• The Unbelieveable Lightness of Being    Milan Kundera
• The Unconsoled    Ishiguru
• Three Junes    Julia Glass
• True North    Jill Kerr Conway
• Tuesdays with Morrie    William Kennedy
• Waiting    Ha Jin
• West with the Night    Markham
• Wild Swans    Jung Chang

2003

• American Chica                    Marie Arana
• The Glass Palace                    Amitav Ghosh
• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain        Robert Olen Butler
• The Secret Life of Bees                Sue Monk Kidd
• Alice in Exile                    Piers Paul Reid

2004

• Revere Beach Boulevard        Ronald Murillo
• A Very Long Engagement        Sebastien Japrisot
• The DaVinci Code            Dan Brown
• Pigeon Feathers            John Updike
• 100 Years of Solitude            Gabriel Marquez
• A Gesture Life                Chang Lee
• The Belles of New England        Moran
• Middlesex                Jeffrey Eugenides
• Reading Lolita in Tehran        Azar Nafisi
• Half A Life                V.S. Naipaul
• Women About Town            Laura Jacobs

2005

• The Kite Runner            Khaled Hosseni
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night    Mark Haddon
• Bringing Down the House        Ben Mezrich
• Runaway                Alice Munroe
• Pinochio                Collodi
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles    Haruki Murakami
• The Morality Play            Barry Unsworth
• House of Sand and Fog        Andre Dubois

2006

• Leaving Mother Lake            Yang Erche Nama & Christine Mathieu
• Snow                    Orhan Pamuk
• Gilead                    Robinson, Marilynne
• A Private View            Anita Brookner
• Pat Conroy’s Cookbook        Pat Conry
• Wind, Sand, and Stars            Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Devil in the White City        Erik Larson
• House of Mirth            Edith Wharton
• Death in Venice            Thomas Mann

2007

• The Peabody Sisters            Megan Marshall
• The Inheritance of Loss        Kiran Desai
• The Places In Between        Rory Stewart
• Suite Francais                Irene Nemirovsky
• Desert Queen                Janet Wallach
• A Short History of the Tractors in Ukrainian    Marina Lewycka
• Out Stealing Horses            Per Petterson
• The Day of the Scorpion        Paul Scott

2008

• African Laughter            Doris Lessing
• The Book of Salt            Monique Truong
• Christine Falls                John Banville
• Song of the Lark            Willa Cather
• Intuition                Allegra Goodman
• (About lab in Cambridge)
• The Transit of Venus            Shirley Hazzard
• (@2 sisters orphaned in Australia, move to England,@ their romances and betrayal)
• Three Cups of Tea            Greg Mortenson

2009

• The Rector’s Daughter        F.M. Mayor
  (19th c. Victorian single woman and her life)
• Someone Knows My Name        Lawrence Hill
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
  (@life on an English island during Nazi occupation)
• An Unfinished Season            Ward Just
  (@well-to do 19 yr old Chicago boy’s summer in between senior year and college)
• Brother, I’m Dying            Edwinge Danticot
• Lark and Termite            Jayne Anne Phillips
• The Help                Kathryn Stockett

2010

• The Cellist of Sarajevo        Steven Galloway
  Wolf Hall                Hilary Mantel
• The Children’s Book            A.S. Byatt
• The Glass Room            Simon Mawer
• Let the Great World Spin        Colum McCann
  (@lives of people under tightrope between Twin Towers)
• Brooklyn                Colm Toiban
  (@Irish girl who came to US, works, meet boy, and returns to Ireland for her sister’s funeral)

2011

• The Island Beneath the Sea        Isabel Allende
  (@lives of French landowner and slave girl in Haiti and what happens when slaves revolt
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand    Helen Simonson
  (@retired British major in English village who falls in love w/Pakistani widow and how neighbors and family react.)
• Breaking Clean            Judy Blunt
  (@girl growing up on a farm in Montana and her life as a farmer’s wife)
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet        David Mitchell
  (@Dutch East India Co. man on island off Japan who falls in love w/Japanese girl and her abduction to cult temple)
• The Tiger’s Wife            Tea Obreht
• The Greater Journey        David McCullough
  (@American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, etc  @1850 -1900 who feel it is important to go to Paris.
• The Late Homecomer        Kao Kalia Yang
  (@Hmong family who fled Laos and came to the US as told by the daughter)
• River of Darkness            Rennie Airth
• Inspector Madden Mystery @ finding the killer of women whose throat is cut by bayonet
• In the Garden of Beasts        Erik Larsen
  @American ambassador to Germany in 1933

2012

• The Barbarian Nurseries        Hector Tobar
  @wealthy white family in LA and their Mexican housekeeper
• Caleb’s Crossing            Geraldine Brooks
  @2 Native American boys who went to Harvard in 17th century
• Still Life                Louise Penny
• An Inspector Gamache novel @ murder of woman in small village in Canada
• Bring Up the Bodies            Hilary Mantel
• Continuation of Wolf Hall about Henry VIII, Oliver Cromwell, and Ann Bolyn