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2016
01/16 - The
Secret River, Kate Grenville (hist
fic 2014). 1800 Australian
prisoner and family settle indian land. Karen
2015
12/15 - Just
Mercy , by Brian Stevenson (non-fic 2014). Juvenile justice
system. Darcy
11/15 -  The
Birth of the Pill: 4 crusaders reinvent sex
and launched a revolution, Jonathan Eig, (non-fic, 2014) Carolyn
10/15 - My
Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor, (non-fic ) memoir by
Justice of the Supreme Court. Judy
09/15 - Doctor
Thorne, by
Anthony Trollope. (fic, 1857) Mary
06/15 - Vietnam
Now:
A Reporter Returns, by David Lamb.
Carolyn
05/15 - The
Good Earth, Pearl
S. Buck (fic. 1931) Agricultural life of a family in old
China. SusanL
04/15 - Dancing
to the Precipice, Lucie
delaTour duPin, Eyewitness to Fr
Revolution,
Caroline
Moorehead. Nancy
03/15 - Disappeared, Anthony
Quinn, (mystery, 2012) Belfast, IRA.
Willajeanne
02/15 - Gertrude
Bell: Queen of the Desert, Georgina
Howell (biography,
1988) Maped out Iran in 1890s.
Karen
01/15 - The
Widow's War, Sally
Gunning
(hist.
fic 2006). A
Revolutionary War widow survives on the Cape.
Judy
2014
12/14 - Looking
for Strangers:
The
True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood,
Dori Katz
(Memoir,
2013) Sheryl
11/14 -
The
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruis Zafon,
(fic,
2001) Mysterious library in 1945 Barcelona.
Ann
10/14 - The
Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
(fic.
2011) Malaysia,
1949 -
solice in Japanese garden. Mary
09/14 -
Lean
In, Sheryl Sandberg (non-fic, 2013) Advice for young
women at work. Darcy
06/14 -
cancelled
05/14 - On
Hitler's Mountain by Irmgard Hunt (non-fic., 2006) legacy of a
Nazi childhood. Nancy
04/14 - The
Righteous Mind:
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics&
Religion, Jonathan Haidt (NF, 2012) SusanL
03/14 -
Dear
Life, Alice Munro
(short stories, 2012 ) Anna
02/14 - A
Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry, (fiction, 2011). Jeanne
01/14
- Emily Dickinson bio and poetry
2013
12/13 - Looking
for Strangers: The True
Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood,
Dori Katz, (Memoir, 2013).
Sheryl
11/13 - God's
Hotel, Victoria
Sweet (Memoir, 2013) Hospital
for indigents in SF hits modern medicine. Judy
10/13 - The
White Tiger, Aravind Adiga,
(fic, 2008) India: about raw human nature everywhere. Booker. Carolyn
09/13 - Jane
Austen, Carol Shields (nf
- 2010) Biography of Jane Austen
+ Austen book. Mary
06/13 - The
Good Girls Revolt:, Lynn Povich (nf,
2012) Newsweek Women Sued
their Bosses, Changed the Workplace. Darcy
05/13
- Moo,
Jane Smiley (f, 2009)
Satire of university life, Midwestern Ag U. Nancy
04/13 - The
House at Sugar Beach, Helene Cooper
(nf, 2009), Liberian royalty to Black in U.S. sister left back. SueL
03/13 - The
Swerve:How World Became Modern,
Stephen Greenblatt. (nf, 2012) Lucretius
inspired Renaissance: world
02/13 - Please
Look After Mom, Kyung-Sook Shin
(nf, 2011) Korean
mom invisible.
Judy
01/13
- The
Sandcastle Girls,
Chris Bohjalian,
(f, 2012) Armenian holocaust in Syria, Karen
2012*
12/12 - Strapless,
Deborah Davis (nf,
2004) Madame X and
the Scandal That Shocked Bell Epoque Paris
11/12
- Crooked
Letter, Crooked Letter,
Tom Franklin (f, 2011), Jeanne.
Two boys in rural Mississippi face tragedy.
10/12
- I'd
Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had,
, Tony Danza (nf, 2012), Actor
teaches for a year..
09/12
- The
Bell Ringers,
Henry
Porter (f, 2010),
Mary. Spy
novel about being spied upon.
05/12
- The
Warmth of Other Suns,
Isabel Wilkerson (nf, 2010),
Darcy. 3
recall their part of great migration North
04/12 - Old
Filth, Jane Gardham (fiction, 2004), Nancy.
Respected lawyer of the
Raj remembers his true life
03/12 -
This
House of Sky, Ivan Doig (memoir, 1992), SusanL My dad:
sheep farming on Montana homesteads
02/12
- All
Passion Spent, Vita Sackville-West, (fiction,
1931), Karen. At 80, Lady Slade breaks free.
01/12 -
For
Better: Science of Happy
Couples Can Help Your Marriage, by
Tara
Parker-Pope (nf, 2011). Judy
2011*
12/11 - A
Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca
Solnit, (essays,
2005). Sheryl. Getting
lost to find yourself
11/11 - Mudbound,
Hillary Jordan,
(non-fic,
2008). Jeanne.
Black WWII vet back in the rural South.
10/11 - The
Hunger Games, Suzanne
Collins,
(fic,
2008). Carolyn. Post-apocalypse-teens must play to the death
09/11 - Blackbird
House, Alice
Hoffman, (fic,
2004). Mary.
Stories
about an old house on the cape
06/11 - The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,
Rebecca Skloot,
(non-fic,
2010). Darcy.
Prolific gene story
05/11 - Dissolution,
C.
J. Sansom, Nancy
04/11 - 13
rue Therese, Elena Mauli Shapiro, Karen
03/11 - Strength
in What Remains, Tracy Kidder, (nf
) Judy
02/11 - When
A Billion Chinese Jump:How China Will Save Mankind-Or
Destroy It, Jonathan Watts,
Anna
01/11 - In
the Woods, Tana
French,
(mystery 2004) Jeanne. Police partners investigate a
murder in rural Ireland.
2010*
12/10 - Cutting
for Stone , Abraham Verghese. Lane
11/10 - The
History of Love, Nicole
Krauss, Lindsey
10/10 - Olive
Kitteridge, Elizabeth
Strout, Carolyn
09/10 - The
Ends of the Earth, W. S. Merwin, Mary
06/10 - The Help,
Kathryn
Stockett
05/10 - Mr.
Pip, Lloyd Jones, (fiction, 2008)
White
teacher stays on war-torn island: reads Dickens to the kids.
04/10 - Weekend
in NYC.
03/10 - Peace
Like a River, Leif Enger, (fiction, 2002) Judy
02/10 - Your favorite NYC book
01/10 - The
Secret
Scripture
Sebastian Barry (Hist. Fiction, 2008) Lindsey
2009*
12/09 - The
Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed (biography, 2008)
Lane
11/09 - Infidel
Ayaan
Hirsi Ali (memoir,
2008)
Jeanne
10/09 - People
of the Book
Geraldine Brooks (hist. fiction, 2008) Carolyn
09/09 - Hannah
Coulter
Wendell Berry (fiction, 2004) Mary
07/09 - The
Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin
Hamid Burch
06/09 - Love
in the Driest Season, Neely Tucker (fiction,
2006) Darcy
05/09 - What do you do with your old books? - discussion, Nancy
04/09 - Outliers:
The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell, (non-fiction,
2008) Carolyn
03/09 - Founding
Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation,
Cokie Roberts, (n-f 2009) Karen
02/09 - The
Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolen, (non-fiction, 2007),
Mary
01/09 - New
England White, Stephen Carter, (fiction,
2007), Lane
2008*
12/08 - The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers (fiction, 1940)
Lindsey
11/08 - Post
American World Fareed Zakaria (non-fiction, 2008)
Darcy (Anna's choice)
10/08 - The
Book Thief Markus Zusak (fiction, 2007) Jeanne
09/08 - Away Amy Bloom (fiction) Mary
06/08 - You
Just Don't Understand Deborah
Tannen, (non-fiction) Judy
05/08 - Black
Swan Green, David
Mitchell,
(fiction, 2006)
04/08 - The
Glass Castle
Janette Walls,
(non-fiction, 2007)
03/08 - Written
by Herself : Autobiographies of American Women,
Jill Ker Conway,
(non-fiction, 1992)
02/08 - The
Bastard of Istanbul, Elif
Shafak,
(fiction, 2007)
01/08 - Persuasion, Jane
Austen,
(fiction, 1817)
2007*
12/07 - A
Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini,
(fiction, 2007)
11/07 - Water
for Elephants, Sara Gruen, (fiction,
2006)
10/07 - The
Known World, Edward B. Jones, (fiction,
2003)
09/07 - March,
Geraldine Brooks, (historical novel,
2005)
06/07 - Girls
of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith (Memoir set in 1950's Hartford, 2005)
05/07 - Our
Town, Thornton Wilder (Play, 1938)
04/07 - Memory
Keepers Daughter, Kim Edwards (Fiction, 2006)
03/07 - The
Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad (non-fiction,
2002)
02/07 - Their
Eyes Were Watching God, Nora Neale Hurston (Fiction, 1937)
01/07 - The
Inner Voice, Renee Fleming (Non-Fiction,
2004)
2006*
12/06 - The
Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh (Fiction, 2006)
11/06 - To
Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (Fiction, 1961)
09/06 - Tender
at the Bone, Reichl, Ruth (Fiction, 1998)
06/06 - The
Pickup, Nadine Gordimer (Fiction,
2001)
05/06 - Brokeback
Mountain, Annie Proulx (Novella,
1999)
04/06 - Exit
Lines, Reginald Hill (Mystery,
1991, reissue)
03/06 - Gilead,
Marilynne Robinson (Fiction,
2002)
02/06 - When
the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka (Fiction,
2002)
01/06 - Wicked:
The life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,
Gregory Maguire (Fiction, 1995)
2005*
12/05 - Fidelity:
Five Stories, Wendell Berry (Short
Stories, 1993)
11/05 - Saturday,
Ian McEwan (Fiction, 2005)
10/05 - The
Peabody Sisters, Megan Marshall (Non-Fiction, 2005)
09/05 - The
Summer Guest ,
Justin Cronin (Fiction, 2004)
06/05 - A
Round-Heeled Woman:
Late-Life Adventures in Sex & Romance,
Jane Juska (Non-Fiction, 2002).
05/05 - Small
Island, Andrea Levy, (Fiction,
2001)
04/05 - Poems
New and Collected,
Wislawa
Szymborska, (Poetry,
2001)
03/05 - Her
Fork in the Road, Lisa Bach, (Non-Fiction,
2001)
02/05 - The
Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri, (Fiction,
2003)
01/05 - And
Still We Rise:
Trials- Triumphs of 12 Inner-City High Sch Students,
Miles Corwin (N-fiction, 2000)
2004*
12/04 - The
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Fiction,
2003)
11/04 - Red
Dust, Gillian Slovo (Fiction,
2001)
10/04 - Father
Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, Tony Hendra (Non-Fiction,
2004)
09/04 - By
the Lake, John McGahern (Fiction,
2002)
07/04 - The
No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction,
1998)
06/04 - The
Transit
of Venus, Shirley Hazzard. (Fiction, 1980).
National Book Critics Circle
05/04 - Crow
Lake,
Mary Lawson. (Fiction, 2002).
04/04 - Reading
Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi. (Non-Fiction,
2003).
03/04 - The
Great Wave, Christopher Benfey. (Non-Fiction,
2003).
02/04 - A
Problem from Hell, Samantha Power. (Non-Fiction,
2003). Pulitzer
01/04 - Prodigal
Summer, Barbara Kingsolver. (Fiction, 2000).
2003*
12/03 - The
Other Boleyn Girl, Philappa Gregory. (Historical
Fiction, 2002).
11/03 - Year
of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks. (Historical
Fiction, 2001).
10/03 - The
Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown. (Fiction, 2003).
09/03 - War
and Peace, Leo Tolstoy. (Fiction, 1869).
06/03 - The
Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell. (Non-Fiction,
2000).
05/03 - Wild
Swans, Jung Chang. (Non-Fiction, 1991).
04/03 - The
Quiet American, Graham Greene. (Fiction, 1956).
03/03 - Solar
Storms, Linda Hogan. (Fiction, 1997).
02/03 - A
Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert. (Fiction,
1869).
01/03 - Magician
of the Modern, Eugene R. Gaddis. (Biography,
2000).
2002*
12/02 - Atonement,
Ian McEwan, (Fiction,
2002)
11/02 - Aging
Well, George Vaillant, (Science,
2002)
10/02 - Bel
Canto, Ann Patchett, (Fiction,
2002)
09/02 - The
Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary S. Lovell, (Biography,
2002)
07/02 - The
Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan, (Non-fiction,
2001)
06/02 - Everything
That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, (Short
Stories, 1956)
05/02 - In
Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden, Kathleen Cambor, (Fiction,
2000)
04/02 - Interpreter
of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, (Short Stories, 1999) Pulitzer
03/02 - Kundun,
Mary Craig, (Non-Fiction, 1997)
02/02 - The
Reader, Bernhard Schlink (Fiction,
1999)
01/02 - Dreams
of My Russian Summers, Andrei Makine (Fiction,
1998)
2001
12/01 - Anil's
Ghost, Michael Ondaatje (Fiction,
2000)
11/01 - A
Crime in the Neighborhood, Suzanne Berne (Fiction,
1997)
10/01 - Housekeeping,
Marilynne Robinson (Fiction,
1997)
09/01 - Behind
the Scenes at the Museum, Kate
Atkinson (Fiction,
1997)
06/01 - A
Clearing in the Distance, Witold Rybczynski (Non-Fiction,
1999)
05/01 - One
Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Fiction, 1970), Nobel.
04/01 - The
Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
(Non-Fiction, 1997), Critics' Circle.
03/01 - The
Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro (Short
Stories, 1998), Critics' Circle.
02/01 - Letters
and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Non-Fiction,
1945)
01/01 - Disgrace,
J.M.Coetzee (Fiction, 1999), Booker.
2000
12/00 - Pale
Fire, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Fiction,
1962)
11/00 - Pay
It Forward, Catherine Ryan Hyde (Fiction,
1999)
10/00 - Poisonwood
Bible, Barbara Kingslover (Fiction,
1998)
09/00 - Kristin
Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset (Fiction,
1928), Nobel.
07/00 - The
Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn (Non-Fiction,
1997)
06/00 - The
Last September, Elizabeth Bowen (Fiction,
1929)
05/00 - The
Hours, Michael Cunningham (Fiction,
1998), Pulitzer, Faulkner.
04/00 - They
Used to Call Me Snow White...but I Drifted, Regina Barreca
(Non-fiction, 1992)
03/00 - Anagrams,
Lorrie Moore (Fiction, 1997)
02/00 - The
End of the Affair, Graham Greene (Fiction,
1951)
01/00 - Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling (Fiction,
1998)
1999
12/99 - The
Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch (Fiction,
1973), Booker.
11/99 - As
I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (Fiction,
1932), Nobel.
10/99 - Light
in August, William Faulkner (Fiction,
1930), Nobel.
09/99 - Slaves
in the Family, Edward Ball (Non-fiction,
1998), National.
06/99 - Floating
in My Mother's Palm, Ursula Hegi (Fiction,
1990)
05/99 - Personal
History, Katharine Graham (Autobiography,
1997), Pulitzer.
04/99 - The
Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Arnim (Fiction,
1923)
03/99 - Le
Divorce, Diane Johnson (Fiction,
1997)
02/99 - Island
of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks (Science,
1996)
01/99 - The
Weight of Water, Anita Shreve
(Fiction, 1997)
1998
12/98 - Friend
of My Youth, Alice Munro (Fiction,
1990)
11/98 - Beloved,
Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1996),
Pulitzer, Nobel.
10/98 - Regeneration,
Pat Barker (Fiction, 1992)
09/98 - Duplicate
Keys, Jane Smiley (Fiction, 1984)
06/98 - God
of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (Fiction,
1997), Booker.
05/98 - Alias
Grace, Margaret Atwood (Fiction,
1996)
04/98 - Mrs.
Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
(Fiction, 1932)
03/98 - The
Color of Water, James McBride
(Biography, 1996)
02/98 - The
Wings of the Dove, Henry James
(Fiction, 1930)
01/98 - Poetry Selections, Member
favorites
1997
12/97 - Operating
Instructions, Anne Lamotte
(Fiction, 1993)
11/97 - Undaunted
Courage, Stephen Ambrose
(History, 1996)
10/97 - Angela's
Ashes, Frank McCourt
(Autobiography, 1997), Pulitzer.
09/97 - "..and
ladies of the club", Helen Hoover Santmyer
(Fiction, ~1930)
Past
Books
00/00 - Ulysses,
James Joyce (Fiction, 1922)
00/00 - Emma,
Jane Austen (Fiction, 1816)
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