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2016*


2015*


11/15 - Death Sentences, Kawamata Chiaki,
(fic. 1984). Doris. Surrealism-Police state- Ferret out poem that kills. "poem plague"
10/15 - Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir, Wednesday Martin
(non-fic, 2014)  Catty mom-culture via anthropology.

09/15 - Colored dot icon. The Birth of the Pill: how 4 crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution, Jonathan Eig, (non-fic, 2014)

07/14 - A Tale For the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (fic 2013) Fr. Doris. Many worlds. 16 yr old Nao, Zen nun Jiko, Ruth finds diary.

06/15 - Getting More: How you can succeed in work and life, Stuart Diamond, (non-fic, 2012)  
03/15 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gainan (fic, 2014) Stories shield us from childhood evils.
03/15 - All the Light We Can Not See, Anthony Doerr (fic. 2014) WWII  German boy, Blind French girl. pulitzer.
02/15 - The Scarlet Sisters, Myra MacPherson (non-fic, 2014), Infamous feminists: 1870 brokerage firm, ran for president.
01/15 - Colored dot icon. Alice Paul: Claiming Power, J.D.Zahniser & A melia R. Fry (biography, 2014). Early life - becoming Alice.

2014*


12/14 - Colored dot icon. Vietnam Now, David Lamb (non-fic, 2003).
Reporter returns to 1998 Vietnam to discover booming country.

06/14 - Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (non-fic 2012) Easy to swerve away from rational thinking.
05/14 - Colored dot icon. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon (non-fic 2012) - Children and the search for identity.
05/14 - Colored dot icon. Dearie, Julia Child, Bob Spitz (bio, 2013) - 6'3", WWII spy, 1950's high life, 1960's star, 1970's libber
04/14 - Thicker than Water, Leo Waterman (mystery, 2012) - ? Read?

04.14 - Benjamin Franklin's Bastard, Shelly Cabot (hist fic 2014) - He's a loyalist.

03/14 - Colored dot icon. The Rebellion of Jane Clarke, Sally Gunning (hist fic, 2011) 1770 Banished to Boton, soldiers killing boys
03/14 - Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks (hist fic,  2011) - 1660 - Indian boy from Martha's Vinyard to Harvard
03/14 - Colored dot icon. Bound, Sally Gunning (hist fic, 2009) - 1757 Bound to pay dad's debts, stow-away, legal entanglements. 
01/14 - The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (fic, 2013). An orphaned boy with memories of his mom in the underworld of art.

2013*


11/13 - Colored dot icon. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (fic, 2013).
An orphaned boy with memories of his mom in the underworld of art.
11/13 - Gardening for a Lifetime, Sydney Eddison (non-fic, 2010), How to garden wiser as you grow older.
09/13 - The Violinist's Thumb, Sam Kean
, (non-fic, 2012)  Entertaining vignettes explaining the past and latest on DNA.
08/13 - Midnight's Children  Salman Rushdie. (fiction, 1993
Allegory of family tells tale of India's birth.

08/13 - Colored dot icon. Behind the Beautiful Forevers  Katherine Boo. (non fiction, 2012)  Inside Mumbai slum.
02/13 - Colored dot icon. The White Tiger  Aravind Adiga (fic, 2008Booker.  Cocky Indian servant rises to entrepreneur.
01/13 - Gone Girl  Gillain Flynn. (fic, 2012) 
Mystery of dysfunctional missing wife.
01/13 - Colored dot icon. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry  Rachel Joyce. (fic, 2012)  Brit walks to save an old friend.
01/13 - Love, Delhi  Fiona Caulfield. (non- fic, 2010)  Where to buy in Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Varanasi, Rathambhore.

2012*

11/12 -  A First-Rate Madness  Nassir Ghaemi. (non- fic, 2011)  Links Between Leadership & Mental Illness.
10/12 -  Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible  Tim Gunn. (non- fic, 2010)  Carbs, sugar, not calories.
07/12 -  Why We Get Fat (
and what to do about it)  Gary Taubes. (non- fic, 2010)  Carbs, sugar, not calories.
07/12 -  Accidents of Providence  Stacia M. Brown. (
hist fiction, 2012) 1649-Infant death must be revealed.
06/12 -  Bring Up the Bodies  Hilary Mantel.  (
hist fic, 2012)  Anne Bolyn from Thomas Cromwell's view.
05/12 - Dissolution, C.J. Sansome (mystery series 2004) Cromwell's investigator sleuths in a monastery


02/12 - The Cello Suites, Eric Siblin (non-fic, 2009).  Bach, Casals and the search for a Baroque Masterpiece.

2011*

07/11 -  The Love of My Youth  Mary Gordon.  (fiction, 2011)  Looking back after 40 yrs - Rome spots.
06/11 -  A Severed Head  Iris Murdoch.  (
mystery, 1976)  Funny suspenseful infidelity.
06/11 -  Colored dot icon. The Witch in the Well  Sharon Newman.  (
mystery, 2010)  # 10-Final Catherine LeVendeur.
05/11 -  The Outcast Dove  Sharon Newman.  (mystery, 2009)  # 9-Catherine LeVendeur Medieval mystery
04/11 -  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl  Harriet Jacobs.  (non-fic, 1861)  Personal narrative.
04/11 -  The Tiger's Wife  Tea Obrecht.  (fiction, 20
11)  Balkan Dr. searches for her Grandfather's body, spirit
03/11 -  A Discovery of Witches  Deborah Harkness.  (fiction, 20
11)  Oxford research opens witch in her
03/11 -  Faithful Place  Tanya French.  (
mystery, 2010)  Frank goes home, investigates his young love's death
02/11 -  Colored dot icon. The Likeness  Tanya French.  (mys, 2008)  Irish cop Cassie at home impersonating her look-alike.
02/11 -  Stone's Fall  Ian Piers.  (his-fic, 2009)  1909 widow hires him to investigate industrialist-but who is she
01/11 -  Colored dot icon. Mockingjay  Suzanne Collins.  (fiction, 2008)  Futuristic girl wins twisted survival contest.

2010*

08/10 -  Ender's Game  Orson Scott Card.  (scifi, 1985)  #1-Genius-bred Ender defeats aliens. Brother-sister
08/10 -  Shantaram  Gregory David Roberts.  (fiction,
2004)  Bombay slum, mafia, love, betrayal-epic autobio
08/10 -  The American Frugal Housewife  Lydia Maria.  (
non-fiction, 1832)  Hints from Heloise -but in 1832..
07/10 - Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself, Harriet A. Jacobs (autobio 1861)
07/10 -  The Amateur Marriage  Anne Tyler.  (fiction, 2004)  The story of a mismatched marriage.
06/10 -  Colored dot icon. Night  Elie Wiesel.  (
non-fiction, 1958)  Wiesel sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 as a teen
06/10 -  Hidden Treasures:
Masterpieces of American Furniture  Leigh and Leslie Keno.  (non-fic, 2000)
05/10 -  
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest  Steig Larsson. (mystery, 2010)  Lisbeth recovers, breaks out.
05/10 -  True Confections  Katherine Weber.  (fiction, 2010)  New Haven woman & the in-laws candy factory
04/10 -  The Fig Eater  Jody Shields
  (mystery, 2000)  Inspector & wife and the murder of a woman in Vienna, 1910
04/10 - Colored dot icon. Catching Fire  Suzanne Collins. 
(fiction, 2008)  Futuristic girl wins twisted survival contest.
03/10 -  The City of Falling Angels   John Berendt 
(non-fiction, 2005)  Inside the real Venice
03/10 -  The Girl Who Played with Fire  Steig Larsson. 
(mystery, 2004)  Crime in Sweden, politics, VAW.
03/10 - Colored dot icon. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  Steig Larsson.  (
mystery, 2004Crime in Sweden, politics, VAW.
02/10 - Colored dot icon. The Family Crucible 
Augustus Y. Napier, Carl A. Whitaker. (non-fiction, 1988)  Brice family therapy.
02/10 -  The Lost Painting  Jonathan Harr. 
(hist-fiction, 2005)  The quest for a Caravaggio masterpiece.
02/10 - Colored dot icon. Moloka'i  Alan Brennart.  (
hist-fiction, 1997)  Hawaiian girl survives a life banished to leper colony.
02/10 - Colored dot icon. The Hunger Games  Suzanne Collins. 
(fiction, 2008)  Futuristic girl wins twisted survival contest.
01/10 -  Life With Pop  Janis Abrahams Spring, Ph.D. 
(non-fiction, 2009)  5 years of care-giving.

2009*

12/09 - Wolf Hall  Hilary Mantel  (hist-fiction, 2009)  Edward Cromwell, Henry VIII's consigliore, Anne, Moore
11/09 - The Lace Reader  Brunonia Barry  (fiction, 2006)  
Towner Whitney - Modern-day Sale
11/09 - Colored dot icon. Infidel  Ayaan Hirsi Ali  (memoir, 2008)   Jeanne
- Bookgroup
10/09 - The Elegance of the Hedgehog,
Muriel Barbery (fic, '06Outsider concierge, 12 yr. old learn to connect.  
06/09 - Colored dot icon. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight,
Alexandra Fuller (mem, '01)  Growing up white in Africa  
05/09 - Blue Shoes and Happiness,
A. McCall Smith ( fiction, 2006)  Mma Makutsi finds happiness  
04/09 - The Secret Scripture, Sabastian Barry (mystery, 2009) 100 yr old Irish woman imprisoned in mental hospital
03/09 - Twilight Series,
Stephanie Meyer ( fiction, 2005-09Teen vampire love.  Lovely trash.
02/09 - Colored dot icon. The Wordy Shipmates,
Sarah Vowell ( non-fiction, 2008)  Truth about Puritan founders 
01/09 - Colored dot icon. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society,
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie 
              Barrows (fic, 2008) 
01/09 -  'T' is for Trespass,
Sue Grafton (mystery series, 2007) 
01/09 -  The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning,
Maurice Lamm (non-fiction, 2000) 

2008*

09/08 -   Hairdos of the Mildly  Depressed, Doug Crandell (fic, 2008) 
09/08 -   A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ismael Beah (non-fic, 2007) 
09/08 -   'S' is for Silence, by Sue Grafton (mystery, 2005)
08/08 -   Hot Fudge Sundae Blues  Bev Marchall (fiction,  2005). 3
08/08 -   The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt (fiction, 2002) 
07/08 -   The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald, (fiction, 1997)
06/08 -   The World Below, Sue Miller, (fiction, 2001)
05/08 -   Colored dot icon. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks, (fiction, 2008) 
04/08 -   Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  Rebecca Wells (
fiction,  1996). 3
03/08 -   Colored dot icon. My Father's Secret War: a memoir  Lucinda Franks (
non-fiction,  2007). 4
03/08 -   Colored dot icon. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle  Haruki Murakami (fiction, 
1997). 4
02/08 -    My French Whore  Gene Wilder (fiction, 
2007). 3
02/08 -    Generation Ageless  J. Walker Smith and Ann Clurman (Non-fiction, 
2007). 3
02/08 -   Colored dot icon. After Dark  Haruki Murakami (Fiction, 
2007). 4
01/08 -   Woman in Charge: Hillary Clinton  Carl Bernstein (non-fiction, 
2007). 3

2007*

09/07 -   Little Women  Louisa May Alcott (fiction1867). 3
07/07 -   Colored dot icon. Three Cups of Tea  Greg Mortenson (Non-fiction200
6). 3
07/07 -   Colored dot icon. The Glass Castle  Jeannette Walls (memoir200
5). 4
07/07 -   Body Surfing  Anita Shreve (fiction,  200
7). 3
07/07 -   Pompeii  Robert Harris (historical fiction,  200
4). 3
07/07 -   Colored dot icon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rolling, (last of the magical fiction, 2007)  4.5
07/07 -   Triangle 2  Katherine Weber (
historical fiction,  2006). 2
06/07 -   The Tender Bar  J.R. Moehringer (fiction, 
2005). 3
02/07 -   The Book Borrower  Alice Mattison (fiction, 
1999). 3
02/07 -   Nature Girl  Carl Hiaasen (fiction,  2006). 3
02/07 -   Colored dot icon. Home Town  Tracy Kidder (non-fiction,  1988). 4
01/07 -   The Turn of the Screw  Henry James (fiction, 
1898). 3
01/07 -   The Echo Maker  Richard Powers (fiction, 
2006). 3

2006*

11/06 -   Colored dot icon. The Bookseller of Kabul  Asne Seierstad (non-fiction,  2002). 4
11/06 -   Colored dot icon. Fat Girl  Judith Moore (
non-fiction,  2005). 4
11/06 -   Slow Man  J.M. Coetzee (fiction,  200
5). 3
09/06 -   Colored dot icon. One Thousand White Women:
Journals of May Dodd, Jim Fergus,1999 novelized journal
07/06 -   Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress  Dai Sijie (fiction,  200
0). 3
05/06 -   Under the Banner Of Heaven  Jon Krakauer (
non-fiction,  2003). 3
03/06 -   Drop City  T. C.Boyle (
fiction,  2003). 3
03/06 -  Colored dot icon. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies  Alexander McCall-Smith (
Mystery,  2004). 4
02/06 -   The Number  Lee Eisenberg (
Non-Fiction,  2006). 3
02/06 -   Running with Scissors  Augusten Burroughs (
Memoir,  2002). 3
01/06 -   The Full Cupboard of Life  Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction,  200
3). 3
01/06 -   The Secret Life of Bees  Sue Monk Kidd (Fiction,  2002). 3

2005*

10/05 -  Colored dot icon. The Shadow of the Wind  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Fiction,  2001). 4
09/05 -  Colored dot icon. The Time Traveler's Wife  Audrey Niffenegger (
Fiction,  2003). 4
08/05 -   Bangkok 8  John Burdett (Mystery,  2002). 3
08/05 -  Colored dot icon. When the Emperor Was Divine  Julie Otsuka (
Fiction,  2002). 4
08/05 -   The Lake of Dead Languages  Carol Goodman (
Mystery,  2002). 2
08/05 -  Colored dot icon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  Mark Haddon (Fiction,  200
2). 4  
07/05 -   A Brief History of the Human Race  Michael Cook (
Non-Fiction,  2003). 2  
07/05 -   
Colored dot icon.The Ha-Ha  Dave King (Fiction,  2005). 4  
07/05 -   
Colored dot icon.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  J.K. Rowling (Fiction,  2005). 4  
07/05 -   Saturday  Ian McEwan (Fiction,  200
5). 3  
07/05 -   Falling Angels  Tracy Chevalier (Fiction,  200
1). 3  
06/05 -   Blink  Malcolm Gladwell (
Non-Fiction,  2002). 3  
06/05 -   The Kalahari Typing School for Men  Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction,  200
2). 3  
05/05 -   Requiem for a Lost Empire  Andrei Makine (Fiction,  200
1). 3  
04/05 -   
Colored dot icon.The Plot Against America  Philip Roth (Fiction,  2004). 4  
04/05 -   Friday Night Lights  G.H. Bissinger (
Non-Fiction,  1988). 3  
03/05 -   Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell  Susanna Clark (Fiction,  200
4). 2  
03/05 -   Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons  Lorna Landvik (Fiction,  200
3). 3  
02/05 -   Colored dot icon.Birth of Venus  Sarah Dunant  (Fiction,  200
4). 4  
01/05 -    Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life  Caroline Moorehead  (Non-Fiction, 
2003). 3  

2004*

12/04 -   Breakfast of Champions  Kurt Vonnegut  (Fiction,  1973). 3  
12/04 -   Between Silk and Cyanide:
A Codemaker's War  Leo Marks  (Non-Fiction,  1998). 3  
12/04 -   Colored dot icon.And Still We Rise:
Twelve Inner-City Students: Miles Corwin (Non-Fiction,  2000). 4  
11/04 -   Founding Mothers  Cokie Roberts  (
Non-Fiction,  2004). 3  
11/04 -   The Rule of Four  Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason  (
Fiction,  2004). 2  
11/04 -   Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim  David Sedaris  (
Humor Stories,  2004). 3  
10/04 -   Colored dot icon. The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini  (Fiction,  2003). 4  
10/04 -   Colored dot icon. The Known World  Edward P. Jones  (
Historical Fiction,  2003). 4  Pulitzer
09/04 -   Life of Pi  Yann Martel  (Fiction,  200
1). 2
09/04 -   Colored dot icon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay  Michael Chabon  (Fiction,  200
0). 4
08/04 -   Colored dot icon. Mountains Beyond Mountains  Tracy Kidder  (
Non-Fiction,  2003). 4
08/04 -   Three Junes  Julia Glass  (Fiction, 
2002). 4
07/04 -   The Stone Diaries  Carol Shields  (Fiction,  19
93). 3
06/04 -   Colored dot icon. Nine Parts of Desire:
The Hidden World of Islamic Women  Geraldine Brooks  (Non-Fiction,  1995). 4
06/04 -   Middlemarch  George Eliot  (Fiction, 
1871). 3
06/04 -   Middlesex  Jeffrey Eugenides  (Fiction,  2002). 3
05/04 -   Colored dot icon. A Round-Heeled Woman:
My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance  Jane Juska (Non-Fiction,  2002). 4
05/04 -   The Devil in the White City  Erik Larson (
Historic Novel,  2002). 3
05/04 -   Morality for Beautiful Girls  Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction,  200
1). 4
05/04 -   Iron and Silk  Mark Salzman (Non-Fiction, 
1986). 3
03/04 -   Madame Secretary: A Memoir  Madeline Albright (Non-Fiction,  2003). 3
03/04 -   Colored dot icon. The Big House:
A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home  George Howe Colt (Non-Fiction,  2003). 4
03/04 -   Tears of the Giraffe  Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction,  200
0). 4
03/04 -   Incidents in the Rue Laugier  Anita Brookner (Fiction, 
1995). 3
02/04 -   Colored dot icon. The Namesake  Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction,  2003). 4
02/04 -   The Human Stain  Philip Roth (Fiction, 
2000). 3
01/04 -   Colored dot icon. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency  Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction, 
1998).  4
01/04 -   Better Than Prozac  Samuel H. Barondes (Non-Fiction,  2003).  3
01/04 -   Letters to a Young Therapist  Mary Pipher (Non-Fiction,  2003).  3

2003*

12/03 -  Colored dot icon. A Mighty Heart  Mariane Pearl (Non-Fiction,  2003).  4
12/03 -  Colored dot icon. The Fortress of Solitude  Jonathan Lethem (Fiction,  200
3).  4
11/03 -  Looking for Spinoza:
Joy, Sorrow, & the Feeling Brain  Antonio Damasio (Non-Fiction,  2003).  2
11/03 -  Colored dot icon. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank  Thad Carhart (
Non-Fiction,  2001).  4
08/03 -  The Da Vinci Code  Dan Brown (
Fiction,  2003).  3
08/03 -  A Patriot's Handbook  Caroline Kennedy (Non-Fiction,  200
3).  3
07/03 -  The Thief Lord  Cornelia Funke (
Children's Fiction,  2000).  3
07/03 -  Colored dot icon. Why Is It Always About You?  Sandy Hotchkiss (Non-Fiction, 
2002).  4
07/03 -  The Language of Feelings  David Viscott (
Non-Fiction,  1977).  3
07/03 -  Q is for Quarry  Sue Grafton (
Mystery 2002).  3
07/03 -  Self-Esteem.  Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning (Non-Fiction, 200
0).  3
06/03 -  Colored dot icon. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.  J.K. Rowling (Fiction, 200
3).  4
05/03 -  The Metaphysical Club:
Ideas in America.  Louis Menand (Non-Fiction, 2001).  3
05/03 -  Inventing Wonderland
: Victorian Childhood & the Lives of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne, Jackie Wullschlager (Non-Fiction, 1995).  3
04/03 -  The Professor and the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester. (Non-Fiction, 1998).  3
04/03 -  Colored dot icon. John Adams, David McCullough. (
Biography, 2001).  4
02/03 -  The Red Tent, Anita Diamant. (Fiction,
1997).  3
01/03 -  On Writing, Stephen King. (
Memoir, 2000).  3
01/03 -  Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding. (Fiction,
1996).  3
01/03 -  Colored dot icon. Hateship, Friendship,
Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro. (Stories, 2001).  4

2002*

12/02 -  Bee Season, Myla Goldberg. (Fiction, 2000).  3
12/02 -  Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis. (
Non-Fiction, 2001).  2
10/02 -  White Teeth, Zadie Smith. (
Fiction, 2000).  2
10/02 -  Colored dot icon. The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell. (
Essays, 2002).  4
09/02 -  Favorite Son, J. H. Hatfield. (Non-fiction, 200
1).  2
07/02 -  Mary Shelley, Miranda Seymour. (
Non-fiction, 2000).  3
07/02 -  Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat. (
Fiction, 1994).  3
07/02 -  Adios Muchachos, Daniel Chavarria. (
Mystery, 2001).  1
07/02 -  Free Agent Nation, Daniel H. Pink. (
Non-fiction, 2001).  2
06/02 -  The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood. (
Fiction, 2000).  2
04/02 - Colored dot icon. Wild Swans, Jung Chang. (Non-fiction, 199
1).  4
03/02 -  Secrets of the Flesh - a life of Colette, Robin Judith Thurman. (Non-fiction,
1999).  3
03/02 -  The Monk in the Garden, Robin Marantz Henig. (Non-fiction, 200
0).  3
02/02 - Colored dot icon. Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks.
(Non-fiction, 2001).  4
02/02 - Icy Sparks, Gyn Hyman Rubio.
(Fiction, 1998).  2
01/02 - Soul Proprietor, Jane Pollak.
(Non-fiction, 2001).  3
01/02 - The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan. (
Non-fiction, 2001).  3
01/02 - Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie. (Fiction,
1980)Booker. 3

2001

12/01 - True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey. (Fiction, 2000)Booker. 2
12/01 - Hotel Du Lac, Anita Brookner. (Fiction, 1984)Booker. 3
12/01 - Tulip Fever, Deborah Moggach. (Fiction, 1999).  3
11/01 - The Enigma of Arrival, V. S. Naipaul. (Fiction, 1987)Nobel. 2
10/01 - Colored dot icon. Four Wimsey-Vane mysteries, Dorothy Sayers. (Fiction, 1930-37).  4
09/01 - How To Be Good, Nick Hornby. (Fiction, 2001).  3
08/01 - Mark Twain and His World, Justin Kaplan. (Non-fiction, 1974).  3
08/01 - Magician of the Modern, Eugene R. Gaddis. (Non-fiction, 2000).  3
08/01 - Colored dot icon. The Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powers. (Fiction, 1991).  4
07/01 - The Sixteen Pleasures, Robert Hellenga. (Fiction, 1994).  3
07/01 - Two Kinsey Mallhones (N&O), Sue Grafton. (Fiction, 1998&99).  3
07/01 - Enduring Love, Ian McEwan. (Fiction, 1997).  3
07/01 - Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald Buying Guide, Renee Newman. (Non-fiction, 2000).  3
06/01 - Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller. (Fiction, 2000).  3
06/01 - I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was, Barbara, Sher. (Non-fiction, 1994).  3
06/01 - Colored dot icon. Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. (Non-fiction, 1955).  4
06/01 - Colored dot icon. Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier. (Fiction, 1999).  4
05/01 - It's only too late If You Don't Start Now, Barbara, Sher. (Non-fiction, 1998).  3
05/01 - Northanger Abby, Jane Austen. (Fiction, 1818).  3
04/01 - Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay. (Fiction, 1994).  2
03/01 - Genome, Matt Ridley. (Science, 2000). 3
03/01 - Demian, Hermann Hesse. (Fiction, 1917), Nobel. 3
02/01 - Colored dot icon. Genome, Jerry E. Bishop, Michael Waldholz . (Science, 1990). 4
02/01 - As She Climbed Across the Table, Jonathan Lethem. (Fiction, 1997). 3
01/01 - Colored dot icon. The Millstone, Margaret Drabble. (Fiction, 1965). 4
01/01 - The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean. (Non-Fiction, 1998). 3
01/01 - Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel. (Non-Fiction, 1999). 3
01/01 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling. (Fiction, 2000). 3


2000

12/00 - Waiting, Ha Jin. (Fiction, 1999), National. 3
12/00 - Nabokov's Pale Fire, Brian Boyd. (Non-fiction, 1999). 3
11/00 - Le Mariage, Diane Johnson. (Fiction, 2000). 3
10/00 - Colored dot icon. Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor. (Short Stories, 1956). 4
10/00 - Colored dot icon. Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier. (Science, 1999). 4
09/00 - Mother Nature, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. (Science, 1999). 3
08/00 - All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy. (Fiction, 1992), National. 3
08/00 - The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond. (Science, 1982). 3
08/00 - The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank. (Fiction, 1999). 3
08/00 - Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende. (Fiction, 1999). 3
07/00 - Intrusions, Ursula Hegi. (Fiction, 1981). 3
07/00 - Colored dot icon. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink. (Fiction, 1995). 4
06/00 - Larry's Party, Carol Shields. (Fiction, 1997). 3
05/00 - Colored dot icon. The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner. (Science, 1994). 4
05/00 - Colored dot icon. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell. (Non-Fiction, 2000). 4
04/00 - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf. (Fiction, 1927). 3
04/00 - Two Harry Potters, J, K Rowling. (Fiction, 1999). 3
04/00 - Yes We Have NO (The other England), Nik Cohn. (Non-Fiction, 1999). 3
03/00 - A Walk in the Woods (Appalachian Trail), Bill Bryson. (Non-Fiction, 1998). 3
03/00 - Perfect Husbands (and other Fairy Tales) , Regina Barreca. (Fiction, 1993). 2
02/00 - Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross. (Fiction, 1996). 3
02/00 - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov. (Fiction, 1963). 3
01/00 - Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnagut. (Fiction, 1959). 3
01/00 - Colored dot icon. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner. (Fiction, 1971), Pulitzer. 4


1999

12/99 - Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner. (Fiction, 1987). 3
12/99 - Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov. (Fiction, 1972). 3
09/99 - Colored dot icon. Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond. (Science, 1997), Pulitzer. 4
08/99 - Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, Christiane Northrup. (Health, 1998). 3
07/99 - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingslover. (Fiction, 1998). 3
07/99 - The Bone People, Keri Hulme. (Fiction, 1983), Booker, First novel. 3
07/99 - The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan. (Fiction, 1978). 2
06/99 - Colored dot icon. Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes. (Journal, 1996). 4
06/99 - Amsterdam, Ian McEwan. (Fiction, 1998), Booker. 3
06/99 - Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden. (Fiction, 1997), First novel. 3
05/99 - Colored dot icon. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier. (Fiction, 1997), First novel, Nat'l Bk Award. 4

* - Unless otherwise attributed, all summaries are taken from the publisher's summary.  All linked comments are original material.
BookGroup Selections Rated 4 or 5: Colored dot icon.

The Book Thief  Markus Zusak  (fiction, 2007)  Jeanne
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell, (fiction, 2006)
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini, (fiction, 2007)
Persuasion, Jane Austin, (fiction, 1817)
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini, (fiction, 2007)
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen, (fiction, 2006)
Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith  (Memoir set in 1950's Hartford, 2005)
Our Town, Thornton Wilder  (Play, 1938)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Nora Neale Hurston  (Fiction, 1937)
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee  (Fiction, 1961)
Tender at the Bone, Reichl, Ruth  (Fiction, 1998)
Saturday, Ian McEwan (Fiction, 2005)
The Peabody Sisters,  Megan Marshall (Non-Fiction, 2005)
The NamesakeJhumpa Lahiri, (Fiction, 2003)
And Still We Rise: Trials and Triumphs of 12 Inner-City High School Students,  Miles Corwin (Non-fiction, 2000)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini  (Fiction2003)
The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard. (Fiction, 1980).  Ntl Book Critics Circle
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
, Azar Nafisi. (Non-Fiction, 2003)
War and Peace
, Leo Tolstoy. (Fiction, 1869)
The Quiet American, Graham Greene    (Fiction),  1956
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri    (Short stories),  1999
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink    (Fiction),  1999
Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andrei Makine, (Fiction), 1995
A Crime in the Neighborhood, Suzanne Berne, (Fiction), 1997
A Clearing in the Distance, Witold Rybczynski, (Non-Fiction), 1999
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman, (Non-Fiction), 1997
The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro, (Short Stories), 1998
The Hours, Michael Cunningham, (Fiction), 1998
Light in August, William Faulkner, (Fiction), 1930
Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball, (Non-Fiction), 1998
Floating in My Mother's Palm, Ursula Hegi, (Fiction), 1990
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, (Fiction), 1932
The Color of Water, James McBride, (Non-Fiction), 1996
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, (Autobiography), 1990

 


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