Book Discussion List 1995-2008
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Ambrose, Stephen - Undaunted Courage
Alexie, Sherman - Reservation Blues
Bandele, Asha - Prisoner's Wife
Brown, Judy - Choice
Coetzee, J.M - Disgrace
Cogan, Pricilla - Winona’s Web
Conway, Jill K - Road from Coorain
Conway, Jill K - True North
Cunningham, Steven - Hours
Doig, Ivan - This House of Sky
Edwards, Kim - Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggers, Dave - Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Enger, Leif - Peace Like a River
Faulkner, William - Light in August
Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women
Franzen, Jonathan - Corrections
Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain
Fuller, Alexandra - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Gaines, Ernest - Lesson Before Dying
Glass, Julia - Three Junes
Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
Graham, Katherine - Personal History
Guterson, David - Snow Falling on Cedars
Guterson, David - Our lady of the forest
Hamil, Pete - Snow in August
Harr, Jonathan - Civil Action
Harrison, Jim - True North
Hart, Elva Trevino - Barefoot heart
Haruf, Kent - Plainsong
Haushofer, Marlen - The Wall
Hedges, Chris - War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Hegi, Ursula - Stones from the River
Hillenbrand, Laura - Seabiscuit
Hoffman, Alice - Here on Earth
Hosseini, Khaled - Kite Runner
Ibsen, Henrik - Enemy of the People
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Remains of the Day
Jones, Edward P. - Known World
Kidd, Sue Monk - Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara - Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver, Barbara - Prodigal Summer
Lahiri, Jhumpa - Namesake
Larson, Erik - Devil in the White City
Lowry, Lois - Number the Stars
Lowry, Lois - The Giver
Mahfouz, Naguib - Palace Walk
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
Mason, Daniel - Piano Tuner
Massaquoi, Hans - Destined to Witness
McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran
Naslund, Sena Jeter - Ahab's Wife
Norman, Howard A - Bird Artist
O'Brien, Tim - Things They Carried
Packer, Ann - Dive From Clausen’s Pier
Patchett, Ann - Bel Canto
Peck, Richard - In Search of Stones
Criss Cross - Lynne Rae Perkins
Picoult, Jodi - My sister's keeper
Potok, Chaim - Chosen
Raymo, Chet - Dork of Cork
Redfield, James - Celestine Prophesy
Reynolds, Sherri - Rapture of Canaan
Robinson, Marilynne - Gilead
Roth, Philip - Human Stain
Rowling, J. K - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Salzman, Mark - Soloist
Sebold, Alice - Lovely Bones
Seierstad, Asne - Bookseller of Kabul
Smith, Zadie - On Beauty
Sowell, Thomas - Race and Culture
Stegner, Wallace - Angle of Repose
Tannen, Deborah - You Just Don’t Understand
Trevor, William - Story of Lucy Gault
Watson, Lawrence - Montana 1948
Wells, Rebecca - Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Welty, Eudora - Optimist’s Daughter
Wharton, Edith - House of Mirth
Whelan, Gloria - Homeless Bird
Wilkins, Roger - Jefferson’s Pillow
Woolf, Virginia - Room of One’s Own
Reading list 2007-08
September – Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
October – God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
November - Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
January – Lost Mother - Mary McGarry Morris
February – Girl in the Green Glass Mirror - Elizabeth McGregor
March – In the Beauty of the Lilies - John Updike
April – Omnivore’s Dilemma - Michael Pollan
May - Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
Books for 2008-09
September 24 Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
October 22 Rest of Her Life Laura Moriarty
November 19 On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan
January 28 Trip to the Stars Nicholas Christopher
February 25 The Ha-Ha Dave King
March 25 The Quiet American Graham Greene
April 22 People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
May 27 Gift of Rain Tan Twan Eng