Book Club List #4
Belmont, MA – Twenty-five Years Together
Not sure when read:
Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolff
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Beloved Toni Morrison
Anna Karennina Leo Tolstoy
A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf
The Bridges of Madison County James Walker
The Dubliners James Joyce
The Hiding Place Trezza Azzopardi
The Sound of Waves Yukio Mishiama
The Country Girls Edna O’Brien
Ahab’s Wife Sena Jeter Naslund
In the Beauty of the Lilies John Updike
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
As of January, 2002 or thereabouts
A Long Fatal Love Chase Louisa May Alcott
A Month in the Country J.L. Carr
An American Requiem James Carroll
Annie John Jamaica Kincaid
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow
Breathing Lessons Ann Tyler
Caucasia Denzy Senna
Charming Billy Alice McDermott
Cod Mark Kurlansky
Cold Mountain James Frazier
Daughter of Fortune Isabel Allende
Disgrace J.M. Coetze
Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisters Rebecca Wells
Emma Jane Austin
Enduring Love Ian McEuan
Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J. K. Rawling
Hotel DuLac Brookner
House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
Howard’s End E.M. Forester
Human Stain Philip Roth
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Islam Karen Armstrong
Joys of Motherhood Buch Emecheta
Kate Atkinson
Last Orders Graham Swift
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Moo James Smiley
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Wolf
My Son’s Story Nadime Gordimer
Nine Parts of Desire Geraldine Brooks
No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin
Object Lessons Ann Quindlen
Old Bones
Open Secrets Alice Munro
Possessions Byatt
Quartet in Autumn Barbara Pym
Restauration Rose Tremain
Segu Maryse Conde
Smiley’s Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
Still Life A.S. Byatt
The Atonement Ian McEwan
The Awakening Kate Chopin
The Beggar Maid Alice Munro
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Color of Water James McBride
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Jewett
The Diviners Margaret Lawrence
The English Patient Ondaatie
The Family Orchard Nomi Eve
The Ginger Tree Oswald Wynd
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Ladies of Misalonghi
The Lighthouse Virginia Wolf
The Map of Love Ahdaf Soueif
The Photographer’s Wife Robert Sole
The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester
The Red Tent Diane Diamant
The Remains of the Day Ishiguru
The River King Alice Hoffman
The Road to Corrain Jill Kerr Conway
The Samurai’s Garden Gail Tsukiyama
The Sheltering Sky Boules
The Snapper Roddy Doyle
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner
The Stone Diaries Carol Shield
The Unbelieveable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
The Unconsoled Ishiguru
Three Junes Julia Glass
True North Jill Kerr Conway
Tuesdays with Morrie William Kennedy
Waiting Ha Jin
West with the Night Markham
Wild Swans Jung Chang
2003
American Chica Marie Arana
The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Alice in Exile Piers Paul Reid
2004
Revere Beach Boulevard Ronald Murillo
A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot
The DaVinci Code Dan Brown
Pigeon Feathers John Updike
100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Marquez
A Gesture Life Chang Lee
The Belles of New England Moran
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
Half A Life V.S. Naipaul
Women About Town Laura Jacobs
2005
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseni
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Mark Haddon
Bringing Down the House Ben Mezrich
Runaway Alice Munroe
Pinochio Collodi
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles Haruki Murakami
The Morality Play Barry Unsworth
House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubois
2006
Leaving Mother Lake Yang Erche Nama & Christine Mathieu
Snow Orhan Pamuk
Gilead Robinson, Marilynne
A Private View Anita Brookner
Pat Conroy’s Cookbook Pat Conry
Wind, Sand, and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Death in Venice Thomas Mann
2007
The Peabody Sisters Megan Marshall
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
The Places In Between Rory Stewart
Suite Francais Irene Nemirovsky
Desert Queen Janet Wallach
A Short History of the Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
The Day of the Scorpion Paul Scott
2008
African Laughter Doris Lessing
The Book of Salt Monique Truong
Christine Falls John Banville
Song of the Lark Willa Cather
Intuition Allegra Goodman
(About lab in Cambridge)
The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard
(@2 sisters orphaned in Australia, move to England,@ their romances and betrayal)
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson
2009
The Rector’s Daughter F.M. Mayor
(19th c. Victorian single woman and her life)
Someone Knows My Name Lawrence Hill
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
(@life on an English island during Nazi occupation)
An Unfinished Season Ward Just
(@well-to do 19 yr old Chicago boy’s summer in between senior year and college)
Brother, I’m Dying Edwinge Danticot
Lark and Termite Jayne Anne Phillips
The Help Kathryn Stockett
2010
The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
The Children’s Book A.S. Byatt
The Glass Room Simon Mawer
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
(@lives of people under tightrope between Twin Towers)
Brooklyn Colm Toiban
(@Irish girl who came to US, works, meet boy, and returns to Ireland for her sister’s funeral)
2011
The Island Beneath the Sea Isabel Allende
(@lives of French landowner and slave girl in Haiti and what happens when slaves revolt
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Helen Simonson
(@retired British major in English village who falls in love w/Pakistani widow and how neighbors and family react.)
Breaking Clean Judy Blunt
(@girl growing up on a farm in Montana and her life as a farmer’s wife)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet David Mitchell
(@Dutch East India Co. man on island off Japan who falls in love w/Japanese girl and her abduction to cult temple)
The Tiger’s Wife Tea Obreht
The Greater Journey David McCullough
(@American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, etc @1850 -1900 who feel it is important to go to Paris.
The Late Homecomer Kao Kalia Yang
(@Hmong family who fled Laos and came to the US as told by the daughter)
River of Darkness Rennie Airth
Inspector Madden Mystery @ finding the killer of women whose throat is cut by bayonet
In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larsen
@American ambassador to Germany in 1933
2012
The Barbarian Nurseries Hector Tobar
@wealthy white family in LA and their Mexican housekeeper
Caleb’s Crossing Geraldine Brooks
@2 Native American boys who went to Harvard in 17th century
Still Life Louise Penny
An Inspector Gamache novel @ murder of woman in small village in Canada
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
Continuation of Wolf Hall about Henry VIII, Oliver Cromwell, and Ann Bolyn