Past Book Selections
Ellen
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Conscience and Courage; Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, Eva Fogelman
Eating Pavlova, D. M. Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
We're Right and They're Wrong, James Carville
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (9/98)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (2/99)
Marsha
Angels In America, Tony Kushner
Mating, Norman Rush (6/95)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote
Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor
The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen (6/98)
Cheri and The Last of Cheri, Colette (5/99)
Teresa and Marti
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (T)
Liar's Club, Mary Karr (T)
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire (M)
Banana Rose, Natalie Goldberg (M)
Good Bones and Simple Murders, Margaret Atwood (T)
The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr (M)
Blackwater, Kerstin Ekman (M)
Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill (M)
Bellwether, Connie Willis (5/98) (T)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, (10/98)(M)
Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman (12/98)(T)
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels (4/99) (T)
Barbara and Elena
Midnight at the Garden of Good & Evil, John Berendt (B)
Paula, Isabel Allende (E)
A Right To Privacy (B)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang (B)
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien (E)
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler (B)
+ Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje (B)
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink (1/98)(E)
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson (8/98)(B)
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald (1/99)(E)
Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah (6/99)
Linda
Salinger Fest (A)
Paradise, Toni Morrison (2/98)(L)
Diary of Anne Frank
Vindication, Francis Sherwood (L)
At Weddings and Wakes, (7/98)(A)
B.J.
First Ladies : The Saga of the President's
Wives and Their Power, 1789-1961 by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Journaling
A Debt to Pleasure, John Lancaster
Paradise, Toni Morrison (3/98)
Pushkin Short Stories (11/98)
Ginny
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Sugar Cage, Connie May Fowler
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (3/99)
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Conscience and Courage; Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, Eva Fogelman
Eating Pavlova, D. M. Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
We're Right and They're Wrong, James Carville
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (9/98)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (2/99)
Marsha
Angels In America, Tony Kushner
Mating, Norman Rush (6/95)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote
Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor
The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen (6/98)
Cheri and The Last of Cheri, Colette (5/99)
Teresa and Marti
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (T)
Liar's Club, Mary Karr (T)
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire (M)
Banana Rose, Natalie Goldberg (M)
Good Bones and Simple Murders, Margaret Atwood (T)
The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr (M)
Blackwater, Kerstin Ekman (M)
Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill (M)
Bellwether, Connie Willis (5/98) (T)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, (10/98)(M)
Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman (12/98)(T)
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels (4/99) (T)
Barbara and Elena
Midnight at the Garden of Good & Evil, John Berendt (B)
Paula, Isabel Allende (E)
A Right To Privacy (B)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang (B)
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien (E)
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler (B)
+ Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje (B)
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink (1/98)(E)
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson (8/98)(B)
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald (1/99)(E)
Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah (6/99)
Linda
Salinger Fest (A)
Paradise, Toni Morrison (2/98)(L)
Diary of Anne Frank
Vindication, Francis Sherwood (L)
At Weddings and Wakes, (7/98)(A)
B.J.
First Ladies : The Saga of the President's
Wives and Their Power, 1789-1961 by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Journaling
A Debt to Pleasure, John Lancaster
Paradise, Toni Morrison (3/98)
Pushkin Short Stories (11/98)
Ginny
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Sugar Cage, Connie May Fowler
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (3/99)
American Pastoral, Phillip Roth, Elena (I think) 8/99
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Ellen (9/99?)
Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee - Marsha (10/99?)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham - Jane (2/00)
A Restricted Country, Joan Nestle - Teresa (3/00)
City of God, E. L. Doctorow - Marti (4/00)
The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean - Barbara (5/00)
Local Girls, Alice Hoffman - Chris (6/00)
White Oleander, Janet Fitch - Mary Maddux 7/00
Catfish and Mandala, Andrew Pham - Ellen 8/00
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell- Marsha 9/00
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood - Jane 10/00
The Last Life, Claire Messud- Jill 11/00 and 12/00
didn't meet in 12/00 due to snow.
Paris to the Moon, Adam Glopnik - Gloria 2/01
Trumpet, Jackie Kay - Barbara ?date?
Girl with the Pearl Earring, Barbara 3/01
Disobedience, Jane Hamilton - Marti 4/01
The Powerbook, Jeanette Winterson - 6/01- Lynnie
Comfort Me with Apples, Ruth Reichl - 7/01 - Jill
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Amy Bloom = 8/01 - Teresa
White Teeth, Zadie Smith - 9/01 - Jane
The Clothes They Stood Up In, Alan Bennett - 10/01 - Marsha
The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich - 11/01 - Ellen
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich - Gloria - 12/01
Zami, a New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde - 1/ 02 and 2/02 - Barbara
Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey - 3/02 - Lynnie
Nigger, Randal Kennedy - 4/02 - Jane
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand - 5/02 - Marsha
Flights of Love, Bernhard Schlink - 6/02 and 7/02 - Gloria
White Swan, Black Swan, Adrienne Sharp - 8/02 - Ellen
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg - 9/02 - Teresa
Jim the Boy, Tony Earley - 10/02 - Barbara
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell 11/02 - Lynnie
Lovely Bones, Alice Seabold - 12/02 - Marti
No Book assigned for 01/03
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem - 2/03 - Jane
Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff - 3/03 - Gloria
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger - 4/03 - Ellen
Look at Me, Jennifer Egan - 5/03 - Marsha
The Quiet American, Graham Greene - 6/03 - Teresa
Life of Pi, Yann Martel - 7/03 - Barbara
Lily Dale, Christine Wicker - 8/03 - Lynnie
The Eyre Affaire, Jasper Fforde - 9/03 - Marti
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi - 10/03 - Gloria
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett - 11/03 - no one's book, everyone just wanted to read it
Madam Secretary, Madeleine Albright - Jane - 12/03 & 1/04
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides - Barbara - 2/04
Citizen Cohn, Nicholas Von Hoffman - Marti - 3/2004
Empress Orchid, Anchee Min - Ellen - 4/2004
Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen - Marsha -5/2004
The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong - Teresa - 6/2004
Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward - Jane - 7/2004
Bone-Out from Boneville & The GreatCow Race, Jeff Smith - Lynnie - 8/2004
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson - Barbara - 9/2004
The Book of Salt, Monique Truong - Marti - 10/2004
The Good, the Bad and the Difference, Randy Cohen - Gloria - 11/2004
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini - Ellen - 2/2005
American Gods, Neil Gaiman - Marsha - 3/2005
Love's Executioner, Irvin D. Yalom - Andrea - 4/2005
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth - Barbara - 5/2005
Guru: My Days with Del Close, Jeff Griggs - Lynnie - 6/2005
The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen - Teresa - 8/2005
Freakonomics, Levitt & Dubner - Gloria - 9/2005
The Way The Crow Flies, Anne-Marie MacDonald - Ellen - 10/2005
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathon Safran Foer - Marsha - 11/05
Becoming Justice Blackmun, Linda Greenhouse - Jane - 12/05
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro - Marti - 1/06
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion - Andrea - 2/06
The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer - BB - 3/06
Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link - Lynnie - 4/06
Tomorrow Now, Bruce Sterling - Teresa - 5/06
Who Do You Love: Stories - Gloria - 6/06
Dry: A Memoir - Ellen - 7/06
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo - Marsha - 8/06
Saturday, Ian McEwen - Jane - 9/06
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth - Marti - 10/06
The Stranger, Albert Camus - Andrea 11/06
Runaway, Alice Munro - Jane (@M+T's) 12/06
On Beauty, Zadie Smith - BB - 1/07
The Girl in the Glass, Jeffrey Ford - Lynnie - 2/07
Bushwacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Molly Ivins - Gloria 3/07
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,
Alison Bechdel, Alison Bechdel (Illustrator) - M+T 4/07
Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris - Ellen 5/07
The Man in My Basement, Walter Mosley - Marsha 6/07
After This, Alice McDermott - Andrea 7/07
skipped August
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak - Marti 9/07
skipped October
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky - BB (@Ellen's) 11/07
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A. J. Jacobs - Lynnie (@BB's) 12/07
Skipped January 2008
The Nine – Jeffrey Toobin – Teresa – 2/2008
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon –Gloria - 3/2008
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett – Marti– 4/2008
Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood – Ellen – 5/2008
The Stone Gods – Jeanette Winterson – Marsha – 6/2008
Wild Nights – Joyce Carol Oates – Marti – 7/2008
House Lights – Leah Hager Cohen – Andrea 9/2008 (skipped August)
Then We Came To the End – Joshua Ferris – Lynnie 10/2008
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Norm Chbosky – Teresa – 11/2008
The World To Come – Dara Horn – 12/2008 – Gloria's
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Ellen (9/99?)
Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee - Marsha (10/99?)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham - Jane (2/00)
A Restricted Country, Joan Nestle - Teresa (3/00)
City of God, E. L. Doctorow - Marti (4/00)
The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean - Barbara (5/00)
Local Girls, Alice Hoffman - Chris (6/00)
White Oleander, Janet Fitch - Mary Maddux 7/00
Catfish and Mandala, Andrew Pham - Ellen 8/00
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell- Marsha 9/00
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood - Jane 10/00
The Last Life, Claire Messud- Jill 11/00 and 12/00
didn't meet in 12/00 due to snow.
Paris to the Moon, Adam Glopnik - Gloria 2/01
Trumpet, Jackie Kay - Barbara ?date?
Girl with the Pearl Earring, Barbara 3/01
Disobedience, Jane Hamilton - Marti 4/01
The Powerbook, Jeanette Winterson - 6/01- Lynnie
Comfort Me with Apples, Ruth Reichl - 7/01 - Jill
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Amy Bloom = 8/01 - Teresa
White Teeth, Zadie Smith - 9/01 - Jane
The Clothes They Stood Up In, Alan Bennett - 10/01 - Marsha
The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich - 11/01 - Ellen
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich - Gloria - 12/01
Zami, a New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde - 1/ 02 and 2/02 - Barbara
Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey - 3/02 - Lynnie
Nigger, Randal Kennedy - 4/02 - Jane
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand - 5/02 - Marsha
Flights of Love, Bernhard Schlink - 6/02 and 7/02 - Gloria
White Swan, Black Swan, Adrienne Sharp - 8/02 - Ellen
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg - 9/02 - Teresa
Jim the Boy, Tony Earley - 10/02 - Barbara
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell 11/02 - Lynnie
Lovely Bones, Alice Seabold - 12/02 - Marti
No Book assigned for 01/03
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem - 2/03 - Jane
Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff - 3/03 - Gloria
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger - 4/03 - Ellen
Look at Me, Jennifer Egan - 5/03 - Marsha
The Quiet American, Graham Greene - 6/03 - Teresa
Life of Pi, Yann Martel - 7/03 - Barbara
Lily Dale, Christine Wicker - 8/03 - Lynnie
The Eyre Affaire, Jasper Fforde - 9/03 - Marti
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi - 10/03 - Gloria
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett - 11/03 - no one's book, everyone just wanted to read it
Madam Secretary, Madeleine Albright - Jane - 12/03 & 1/04
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides - Barbara - 2/04
Citizen Cohn, Nicholas Von Hoffman - Marti - 3/2004
Empress Orchid, Anchee Min - Ellen - 4/2004
Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen - Marsha -5/2004
The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong - Teresa - 6/2004
Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward - Jane - 7/2004
Bone-Out from Boneville & The GreatCow Race, Jeff Smith - Lynnie - 8/2004
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson - Barbara - 9/2004
The Book of Salt, Monique Truong - Marti - 10/2004
The Good, the Bad and the Difference, Randy Cohen - Gloria - 11/2004
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini - Ellen - 2/2005
American Gods, Neil Gaiman - Marsha - 3/2005
Love's Executioner, Irvin D. Yalom - Andrea - 4/2005
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth - Barbara - 5/2005
Guru: My Days with Del Close, Jeff Griggs - Lynnie - 6/2005
The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen - Teresa - 8/2005
Freakonomics, Levitt & Dubner - Gloria - 9/2005
The Way The Crow Flies, Anne-Marie MacDonald - Ellen - 10/2005
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathon Safran Foer - Marsha - 11/05
Becoming Justice Blackmun, Linda Greenhouse - Jane - 12/05
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro - Marti - 1/06
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion - Andrea - 2/06
The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer - BB - 3/06
Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link - Lynnie - 4/06
Tomorrow Now, Bruce Sterling - Teresa - 5/06
Who Do You Love: Stories - Gloria - 6/06
Dry: A Memoir - Ellen - 7/06
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo - Marsha - 8/06
Saturday, Ian McEwen - Jane - 9/06
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth - Marti - 10/06
The Stranger, Albert Camus - Andrea 11/06
Runaway, Alice Munro - Jane (@M+T's) 12/06
On Beauty, Zadie Smith - BB - 1/07
The Girl in the Glass, Jeffrey Ford - Lynnie - 2/07
Bushwacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Molly Ivins - Gloria 3/07
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,
Alison Bechdel, Alison Bechdel (Illustrator) - M+T 4/07
Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris - Ellen 5/07
The Man in My Basement, Walter Mosley - Marsha 6/07
After This, Alice McDermott - Andrea 7/07
skipped August
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak - Marti 9/07
skipped October
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky - BB (@Ellen's) 11/07
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A. J. Jacobs - Lynnie (@BB's) 12/07
Skipped January 2008
The Nine – Jeffrey Toobin – Teresa – 2/2008
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon –Gloria - 3/2008
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett – Marti– 4/2008
Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood – Ellen – 5/2008
The Stone Gods – Jeanette Winterson – Marsha – 6/2008
Wild Nights – Joyce Carol Oates – Marti – 7/2008
House Lights – Leah Hager Cohen – Andrea 9/2008 (skipped August)
Then We Came To the End – Joshua Ferris – Lynnie 10/2008
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Norm Chbosky – Teresa – 11/2008
The World To Come – Dara Horn – 12/2008 – Gloria's
The Coffee Trader – David Liss – Mindy 1/2009
The Knife Thrower’s Assistant – Ronnie Claire Edwards – Ellen 2/2009
Nothing to Be Frightened Of – Julian Barnes – Andrea 3/2009
American Girl – Susan Choi – Marti 4/2009
World Made by Hand – James Howard Kuntsler – Gloria 5/09
Flu – Gina Kolata – Teresa 6/09
Crazy for God – Frank Schaeffer – 7/09 - Lynnie
Heart Like Water – Joshua Clark – 8 & 9/09 - Mindy
700 Sundays – Billy Crystal – 10/09 – Andrea
The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood – 11/09 – Ellen
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell – 12/09 – Gloria
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