Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Running Book List of our Monthly Gatherings

This running list of our book club monthly selections is in reverse order. With no commentary attached. Some I recommend. A few I don't. But all in all, every book and book club discussion has been so worthwhile.

Thank you to my dear friends, who are willing to join me in community every month.
Life is quite a ride, isn't it!

10.90  THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FIVE SENSES,  Diane Ackerman
12.90 ANIMAL DREAMS & THE BEAN TREES, Barbara Kingsolver

1.91  FLOWERS IN BLOOD, Gaye Courter
2.91  SORROW’S KITCHEN & THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Zora Nell Hurston
3.91  INCONVENIENT WOMAN & THE TWO MRS GRENVILLES, Dominick Dunne
4.91 POSSESSIONS, A.S. Byatt
5.91  TURBULENT GULF, Liesl Graz
6.91   THE SPY WORE SILK, Aline, Cts of Ramanones
7.91    THE POWER OF ONE, Bryce Courtenay
8.91   THE KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE, Amy Tan
9.91  ST. MAYBE, Anne Tyler & OUTER BANKS, Anne River Siddon
10.91   IMMORTALITY & THE UNBEARABLE  LIGHTNESS OF BEING, Milan Kundera
11.91 MAY YOUR DAYS BE MERRY AND BRIGHT, Susan Koppelman
12.91    A THOUSAND ACRES, Jane Smiley FR MELANCHOLY’S DAUGTHER, Gail Godwin

1.92   IRON JOHN, Robert Bly & THE JOURNEY WITHIN, Gloria Steinem
2.92    Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
3.92      Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
4.92    RISING SUN, Michael Crichton
5.92    YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND, Deborah Tannen, VOX, as optional
7.92     COLONY, Anne Rivers Siddon, PEACHTREE ROAD as optional
8.92      THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, Robert Waller
9.92     VOLCANO LOVER, Susan Sontag
10.92     THE SECRET HISTORY, Donna Tartt,
             GRIFFIN & SABINE’S NOTEBOOK, Nick  Bantock, Optional

1.93    BEFORE AND AFTER, Rosellen Brown,   LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG, Gary Wills
2.93     COWBOYS ARE MY WEAKNESS, Pam Houston
3.93    GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT, HarvilleHendrix
4.93  CHILDREN OF MEN, P.D. James
5.93    A SEASON IN PURGATORY, Dominick Dunne
7.93      WHEN AND WHERE, Anita Shevre &   WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, Esquirel
8.93     DEGREE OF GUILT, John Patterson
9.93      HILLTOWNS, Anne Rivers Siddon
10.93    STRIPTEASE, Carl Hiassen
11.92     AGE OF INNOCENCE, Edith Wharton
12.93     THE MUMMY, Anne Rice
1.94   SMILLA’S SENSE OF SNOW, Peter Hoeg
2.94    DISCLOSURE, Michael Crichton
3.94     LIFE ESTATES, S. Hearon
4.94  THE LONGINGS OF WOMEN, Marge Piercy
5.94    THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, James Redfield
7.94    THE CHAMBER, John Grisham
9.94   THE MAP OF THE WORLD, Jane Hamilton
10.94  SHIPPING NEWS, Annie Proux
11.94  MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER, Marianne Morgan

1.95  CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE, Kaye Gibbons
2.95  NOBODY’S FOOL, Richard Russo
3.95    WISHBONE, Marcia Golub
4.95    FELICIA’S JOURNEY, William Trevor
5.95     ONE TRUE THING, Anna Quinlin
8.95    WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Bronte & BEACH MUSIC, Pat Conroy
9.95        STORMY WEATHER, Carl Hiaasen
10.95      A FATAL LOVE, Louisa May Alcott
11.95     LIZZIE, Dorothy Shavhan
12.95    L ADDER OF YEARS, Ann Tyler

1.96    100 SECRET SENSES, Amy Tan
2.96     THE HORSE WHISPERER, Nicholas Evans
3.96     THE STONE DIARIES, Carol Shields
4.96      SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, David  Gutterson
5.96    IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILLIES, John Updike
9.96   A LIVE COAL IN THE SEA, L’Engle, HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK,  McMillan
10.96    THE DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD, Rebecca Wells
11.96     THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN, Jacquelyn Mitchard
12.96    THIS YEAR WILL BE  DIFFERENT, Mauve  Binchy

1.97     THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje
2.97     THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henry James, Chapters 1-28
3.97   THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henry James, Chapters 29-55
            THE NOTEBOOK, Nicholas Sparks
4.97    SHE’S COME UNDONE, Wally Lamb
5.97      ANGELA’S ASHES, Frank McCourt
6.97     I WAS AMELIA EARHART, Jane Mendelsohn
10.97    COLD MOUNTAIN, Charles Frazier
11.97    THE RAPTURE OF CANAAN, Sheri Reynolds
12.97    THE CHRISTMAS LETTERS, Lee Smith

1.98     LUCKY YOU, Carl Hiassen
2.98       A CERTAIN JUSTICE, P.D. James
3.98     HERE ON EARTH, Alice Hoffman 
4.98      MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, Arthur Golden
5.98      ECCENTRIC NEIGHBORHOODS, Rosario Ferre
6.98     A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR, John Irwing
8.98      THE SIXTEEN PLEASURES, Robert Hellenga
10,98    THE EIGHT, Katherine Neville
11.98   THE LAZARUS CHILD, Robert Mawson
12.98   THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, BarbaraKingsolver

1.99      AMSTERDAM, Jan McEwan
2.99       CHARMING BILLY, Alice McDermott
3.99        THE TESTAMENT, John Grisham
4.99      WHILE I WAS GONE, Sue Miller
5.99     THE READER, Bernhard Schlink
6.99     THE PILOT’S WIFE, Anita Shevre
7.99       THIS MUCH IS TRUE, Wally Lamb
9.99    THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET, Salmon   Rushdie
10.99    WHITE OLEANDER, Janet Fitch
11.99     THE RED TENT, Anita Diamant
12.99    BLINDNESS, Jose Saramago

1.2000  The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
2.0    The Hours, Michael Cunningham
3.0     Before Women Had Wings, Connie May Fowler
4.0    Remembering Blue, Connie May Fowler
5.0   Gertrude & Claudius, John Updike
6.0      Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondatgie
11.0    Four Letters of Love, Niall Williams
12.0     Interpreter of  Maladies,  Jhumpra Lahiri

1.01         Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwartz
2.01       When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
3.01       We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
4.01      Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
5.01      I’M Gone, Jean Echenoz (Gogoncourt Winner)
6.01      Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler
7.01      The Last Time We Met, Anita Shreve
8.01      A Heartbreaking  Work of Staggering Genius,  David Eggers
9.01       Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
10.01    Girl with the Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
            Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
11.01    Ava’s Man, Rick Braggs  (All Over but the Shoutin’)
12.01    Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

1.02      Waiting, Ha Jinn
2.02      Mercy Among the Children, by David Richards
3.02      Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai  and Secret Life of Bees by Kidd
4.02      The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
5.02      The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
6.02      Atonement by Ian McEwan
7.02      Big Stone Gap by Adrianna Trigliani
            Fierce Invalids in Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
8.02      How to be Good by Nick Hornby
9.02      Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10.02    Empire Falls by Richard Russo
11.02    Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
12.02   The Emperor of Ocean Park, by Stephen Carter

1.03          The Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason
2.03      The Three Junes, Julia Glass
3.03      The Last Girls, Lee Smith
4.03          The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
5.03      The Virgin’s Knot,  Holly Payne
6.03      The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
7.03      Blue Shoe, by Anne Lamott
10.03       The Photograph, Penelope Lively
11.03       The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
12.03    Mary, Called Magdalene,  Margaret George

1.04      Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz
2.04      Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
3.04       Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman, Elizabeth Buchan
4.04      The Orchard, Larry Watson
5.04      Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
6.04      Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
7.04      Kiterunner, Khaled Hosseini
8.04      Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler
9.04      The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
10.04    Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
11.04    Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
12.04    Liars and Saints by Maile Maloy

1.05      Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
2.05      The Known World, Edward Jones
3.05      Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
4.05      Line of Beauty, Alan Hollingsworth
5.05      Saturday, Ian McEwan
6.05      The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
7.05      …no book chosen
8.05      The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman
9.05      Time Traveller’s Wife, A.Niffenegger
10.05    Gilead, Marilynn Robinson
11.05    Housekeeping, Marilynn Robinson
12.05    Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

1.06      Out of Egypt, Anne Rice
2.06      Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
3.06      On Beauty, Zadie Smith
4.06      The Accidental, Ali Smith
5.06      Intuition, Allegra Goodman
6.06      The Sea, John Banville
7.06      The Doctor's Daughters, H Wolitzer
8.06      Gentlemen and Players,  Joanne Harris
9.06      Opening meeting
10.06    The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
11.06    March, Geraldine Brooks
12.06    Stolen Child, Keith Donohue

1.07       Next, Michael Crichton
2.07       Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
3.07       The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
4.07       What Was She Thinking, Zoe Heller
5.07       The Namesake, Jhumpar Lahiri
6.07       Suite Francais, Irene Nemirovsky
9.07       Opening Meeting
11.07      Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
12.07     On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan

1.08       Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine Lewycka, Madonnas of Lenningrad, Dean
2.08       The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
3.08       The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
4.08       A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken
5.08       The Gathering, Anne Enright
6.08       Open Discussion
7.08       Open Discussion
9.08       Opening Meeting
10.08     Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
11.08     The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
12.08     A Christmas Family Treasury, Caroline Kennedy

1.09       Home, Marilynn Robinson
2.09       The Hour I first Believed, Wally Lamb
3.09       The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Shaffer and Barrows
4.09       The Piano Teacher, VK Lee
5.09       The Believers, Zoe Heller
6.09       People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
7.09       The Scenic Route, Binnie Kirshenbaum
8.09       Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
9.09       Little Bee, Chris Cleeve
10.09     Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
11.09     White Tiger, Aravid Adiga 
12.09     The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak

1.10       The Private Patient, P.D. James
2.10       Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert
3.10       Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
4.10       Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larson                                                   
5.10       Solar, Ian McEwan 
6.10       The Reliable Wife, Rob Goolrick 
9.10       Open Meeting 
10.10     The Imperfectionist, Tom Rachman 
11.10     Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
12.10     Poetry Circle

1.11       Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
2.11       To the End of the Land, David Grossman
3.11       The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
4.11       Room, Emma Donoghue
5.11       The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
6.11       That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
7.11       A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
9.11       Open Discussion
10.11     The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson
11.11    The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
12.11     Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
              
1.12       Tigers’ Wife, Tea Obreht
2.12       Death Comes to Pemberly, P.D. James
3.12       The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
5.12       Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
6.12       The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan
7.12       How it all Began, Penelope Lively
8.12       Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
9.12       Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
10.12     NW, Zadie Smith
11.12     Christmas Poems

1.13       Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan
2.13       Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Eng Twan
3.13       Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

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