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Here's a list of the books our book clubs have read. Use their
selections to find books that might interest you.
Thursday morning book group
| 2008 |
Book |
Author |
| January |
Journal of a Solitude |
May Sarton |
| February |
Snowflower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
| March |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| April |
In the Time of the Butterflies |
Julia Alvarez |
| May |
The Golden Notebook |
Doris Lessing |
| June |
A Dry White Season |
Andre Brink |
| July |
Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh |
Linda Colley |
| August |
Little Heathens |
Mildred Kalish |
| September |
The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
| October |
Loving Frank |
Nancy Horan |
| November |
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox |
Maggie O'Farrell |
| December |
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven |
Fannie Flagg |
| 2009 |
Book |
Author |
| January |
Here If You Need Me |
Kate Braestrup |
| February |
The Zookkeeper's Wife |
Diane Ackerman |
| March |
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship |
Ann Patchett |
| April |
Digging to America |
Anne Tyler |
| May |
The Bluest Eye |
Toni Morrison |
| June |
Dreams from my Father |
Barack Obama |
| July |
Guernsey Literary
& Potato Peel
Pie Society |
Shaffer/Barrows |
| August |
Wednesday's Sisters |
Meg Clayton |
| September |
The White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga |
| October |
Those Who Save Us |
Jenna Blum |
| November |
Wish You Well |
David Baldacci |
| December |
A Christmas Memory |
Truman Capote |
Monday evening book group
| 2008 |
Book |
Author |
| January |
Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
| February |
The Ultimate Gift |
Jim Stovall |
| March |
The Sparrow |
Mary Doria Russell |
| April |
The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
| May |
Loving Frank |
Nancy Horan |
| June |
The Good Earth |
Pearl S. Buck |
| July |
Little Heathens |
Mildred Kalish |
| August |
Identical Strangers |
Elyse Schein |
| September |
Moloka'I |
Alan Brennert |
| October |
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing |
M.T. Anderson |
| November |
Three Cups of Tea
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Greg Mortensen |
| December |
The Christmas Train |
David Baldacci |
| 2009 |
Book |
Author |
| January |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
| February |
The History of Love |
Nicole Krauss |
| March |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Betty Smith |
| April |
The Book Thief |
Mark Zusak |
| May |
I Capture the Castle |
Dodie Smith |
| June |
Nothing but the Truth |
Avi |
| July |
Guernsey Literary
& Potato Peel
Society |
Shaffer/Barrows |
| August |
Book of Lost Things |
John Connolly |
| September |
Skeletons at the Feast |
Chris Bohjalian |
| October |
The Help |
Kathryn Stockett |
| November |
Blindness |
Jose Saramago |
| December |
A Christmas Memory |
Truman Capote |
Coffee and Crime mystery book group
October 2008: Psychological suspense. Suggested authors: Ruth Rendell, Carol O'Connell and
Mary Higgins Clark. Suggested titles:
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, Absent Friends by S.J. Rozan,
The Alienist by Caleb Carr, Boy in the Water by
Stephen Dobyns.
November 2008: Foreign authors. Suggested titles:
Red Mandarin Dress by Xiaolong Qiu (China), Jar City by
Indridason Arnaludr (Iceland), The
Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri (Italy), What is Mine by
Anne Holt (Norway) or The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(Spain).
December 2008: Holidays can be murder. Suggested titles: The New
Year's Eve Murder by Lee Harris, All Through the Night
by Mary Higgins Clark, Winter of Discontent by Jeanne M. Dams,
A Christmas Mystery in Provence by Mary-Jane Deeb, Shakespeare's
Christmas by Charlaine Harris, one of the Christmas books by Anne
Perry.
January 2009: Science
fiction mysteries. Illegal Alien by Robert Sawyer, Pattern
Recognition by William Gibson, one of the Baley & Olivaw books
by Isaac Asimov (Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn),
Immortality by Kevin Bohacz.
February 2009: Legal thrillers.
The Quiet Game by Greg Iles, Degree of Guilt by
Richard North Patterson, Gone but Not Forgotten by
Phillip Margolin, Compelling Evidence by Steve Martini,
Criminal Intent by Sheldon Siegel, Eye of the Beholder
by Davis Ellis, Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline.
March 2009:
True Crime. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Master
Detective: The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker, America’s
Real-Life Sherlock Holmes by John Reisinger, Stranger
Beside Me by Ann Rule, Midnight in the Garden of Good and
Evil by John Berendt, The Beautiful Cigar Girl by
Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and The Invention of Murder
by Daniel Stashower, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A
Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale.
April 2009:
Female private investigators. Troubles of Fools (Carlotta
Carlyle series) by Linda Barnes, Baltimore Blues (Tess
Monaghan series) by Laura Lippman, The Spellman Files by
Lisa Lutz, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander
McCall Smith, Edwin of the Iron Shoes (Sharon McCone
series) by Martha Muller, Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski
series) by Sara Paretsky.
May 2009: Art mysteries. Loot by
Aaron Elkins,
Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle, The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte,
The Forger by Paul Watkins.
June 2009: Wedding mysteries.
Any books in the Wedding Planner series by
Deborah Donnelly, Steps to the Altar by Earlene
Fowler, Bride and Groom by Susan Conant and
The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson.
July 2009: Murder on the high seas. Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin,
Murder Walks the Plank by Carolyn G. Hart, Surface Tension by Christine Kling.
August 2009: Comic capers. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (first in
series) by M. C. Beaton,
Jane Jeffry series by Jill Churchill, Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey,
Sick Puppy, Basket Case or Nature Girl by
Carl Hiaasen, Get Shorty by
Elmore Leonard.
September 2009: Crime in the great
outdoors: park rangers, fish & game, and
ecological causes. Anna Pigeon series by Nevada Barr, Rachel Porter series
by Jessica Speart, Alix Thorssen series by Lise
McClendon, The Bluejay Shaman by Lise McClendon,
A Finer End by
Deborah Crombie (takes place in Scotland), books by Sue Henry or Dana
Stabenow (set in Alaska) or by Ben Rehder (set in
Texas).
October 2009: Funeral Homes and
undertakers. Recommended authors/titles: The Busy
Body, by Donald Westlake, a classic 1966 comedy
about grave-robbing and mortuary shenanigans, books in
the Hitchcock Sewell series by Tim Cockey, books in the
Callie Parrish series by Fran Rizer.
November 2009: Culinary mysteries.
Recommended authors/titles: books in the China Bayles
series by Susan Wittig Albert, the Hemlock Falls series
by Claudia Bishop, the Goldy Schulz series by Diane Mott
Davidson, the Gourmet Detective series by Peter King.
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