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