Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Book Choices - Fall 2004 to Spring 2011!

Once in a while someone asks me for the list of books that we've discussed since Hannah, Rachel, Jenn Burnett and I started the book club in the fall of 2004. Since I just updated it for another book clubber whom I met at the kids' music school, I thought I'd share it here too ... enjoy!

2004
Clara Callan (Richard B. Wright)
The World According to Garp (John Irving)

2005
No Logo (Naomi Klein)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
Boy's Life (Robert McCammon)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
Crow Lake (Mary Lawson)
Birds Without Wings (Louis de Bernieres)

2006
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
The Girls (Lori Lansens)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi (Jacqueline Park)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Rebecca Wells)

2007
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
Riding the Bus with My Sister (Rachel Simon)
My Name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok)
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
Rockbound (Frank Parker Day)
The Big Over-Easy (Jasper Fforde)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)

2008
Midwives (Chris Bohjalian)
Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear (Katharine Weber)

The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
No Great Mischief (Alistair MacLeod)
Stones from the River (Ursula Hegi)
Plainsong (Kent Haruf)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)
Refiner's Fire (Mark Helprin)

2009
The Lost Garden (Helen Humphreys)
Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Belle Falls (Sherri Vanderveen)
Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)

Mutant Message Down Under (Marlo Morgan)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows)
An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Kay Redfield Jamison)
Remembering the Bones (Frances Itani)
The Book Thief (Marcus Zusak)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
That Old Ace in the Hole (Annie Proulx)

The Other Side of the Bridge (Mary Lawson)

Beatrice and Vergil (Yann Martel)

Drowning Ruth (Christina Schwarz)

The Space Between Us (Thrity Umrigar)

What They Wanted (Donna Morrissey)

2011

The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)

The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa)

Sarah’s Key (Tatiana de Rosnay)