Book Club List #7
Cambridge, MA – Parents of BB&N Class of 2005
2012
A Visit by the Goon Squad by Jennifer Eagan
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
2011
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
The Imperfectionists by Thomas Rachman
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
2010
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Katish: Our Russian Cook by Wanda Frolov
Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Run by Ann Patchett
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
2008
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
To My Dearest Friends by Patricia Volk
What is the What by Dave Eggers
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
2007
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Inheritance of Loss by Desai Kiran
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwars
The Heiress of Water by Sandra Rodriguez Barron
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
2006
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
A Woman in Berlin – Anonymous
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
March by Geraldine Brooks
A Handmaiden’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo
Black and Blue by Anna Quinlan
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
2005
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Known World by Edward Jones
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenbegger
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
The White Rose by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Pieces from Berlin by Michael Pye
Embers by Sandor Marai
Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
2004
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2003
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lovely Bones by Marcia Seabold
Interpreter of Maladies by Jumpha Lahiri
Three Junes by Julia Glass
The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham