Book Group List 1996-2009

Date Title Type*
Oct. 96 “Stones for Ibara,” Harriet Doerr CF

Jan. 97 “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte K
Feb. 97 “Reef,” Romesh Gunesekera CF
Mar. 97 “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” Julia Alvarez CF
May 97 “I Was Amelia Earheart,” Jane Mendelsohn CF
Jun. 97 “The Bingo Palace,” Louise Erdrich CF
Jul. 97 “Pastwatch,” Orson Scott Card SF
Aug. 97 “The Heart of a Woman,” Maya Angelou CF
Sep. 97 “The Shipping News,” E. Annie Proulx CF
Oct. 97 “The Hundred Secret Senses,” Amy Tan CF
Dec. 97 “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Alexandre Dumas K

Jan. 98 “Stones From the River,” Ursula Hegi CF
Feb. 98 “Cry, Thy Beloved Country,” Alan Paton K
Mar. 98“Mormon Country,” Wallace Stegner NF
Apr. 98 “Ishmael,” Danial Quinn SF
May 98 “One True Thing,” Anna Quindlen CF
Jun. 98 “Alias Grace,” Margaret Atwood CF
Jul. 98 “The Clinic,” Jonathan Kellerman M
Aug. 98 “The Island of the Day Before,” Umberto Eco CF
Sept. 98 “Cold Mountain,” Charles Frasier CF
Oct. 98 “A Chorus of Stones, the Private Life of War,” Susan Griffin NF
Nov. 98 “The Age of Innocence,” Edith Wharton K
Dec. 98 “Memoirs of a Geisha,” Arthur Golden CF

Jan. 99 “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” John Irving CF
Feb. 99 “The Reader,” Bernhard Schlink CF
Mar. 99 “Animal Husbandry,” Laura Zigman CF
Apr. 99 “A Cup of Tea,” Amy Ephron CF
May 99 “A Confederacy of Dunces,” John Kennedy O’Toole CF
Jun. 99 “Love Thy Neighbor, a Story of War,” Peter Maas NF
Jul. 99 “Tuesdays with Morrie,” Mitch Albom NF

“Interstellar Pig,” William Sleator JF
Aug. 99 “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” Willa Cather K
Sep. 99 “West with the Night,” Beryl Markham B
Oct. 99 “The Shelter of Each Other,” Mary Pipher, PhD. NF
Nov. 99 “The Samurai’s Garden,” Gail Tsukiyama CF
Dec. 99 “Aphrodite,” Isabelle Allende NF

Jan. 00 “Persuasion,” Jane Austen K
Feb. 00 “Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea,” Elie Wiesel B
Mar. 00 “The Loop,” Nicholas Evans CF
Apr. 00 “The Hours,” Michael Cunningham CF
May 00 “Reader’s Choice,” Mark Salzman
Jun. 00 “Joe Gould’s Secret,” Joseph Mitchell CF
Jul. 00 “Waiting for Barbarians,” J. M. Coetzee CF
“An Environment for Murder,” Rod Decker M
Aug. 00 “Plainsong,” Kent Haruf CF
Sept. 00 “The River Midnight,” Lilian Nattel CF
Oct. 00 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Victor Hugo K
Nov. 00 “The Brothers K,” David James Duncan CF
Dec. 00 “Siddhartha,” Hermann Hess CF

Jan. 01 “White Teeth,” Zadie Smith CF
Feb. 01 “An Anthropologist on Mars,” Oliver Sacks NF
Mar. 01 “A Gesture Life,” Change-rae Lee CF
Apr. 01 “Absolution by Murder (a Sister Fidelma Mystery),” Peter Tremanye M
May 01 “Two Old Women,” Velma Wallis NF
Jun. 01 “Tulip Fever,” Deborah Moggach CF
Jul. 01 “East of the Mountains,” David Guterson CF
Aug. 01 “Dracula,” Bram Stoker K
Sep. 01 “Let us Now Praise Famous Men,” James Agee NF
Oct. 01 “Longitude,” Dava Sobel NF
Nov. 01 “Bless Me, Ultima,” Rudolfo Anaya CF
Dec. 01 “Tales of the City,” Armistead Maupin CF

Jan. 02 “The Power of One,” Bryce Courtenay CF
Feb. 02 “The Sprit Catches You and You Fall Down,” Anne Fadiman NF
Mar. 02 Letters From Yellowstone,” Diane Smith CF
Apr. 02 “Honeymoon in Purdah,” Alison Wearing NF
May 02 “The Professor and the Madman,” Simon Winchester CF
Jun. 02 “Seabiscuit,” Laura Hillenbrand NF
Jul. 02 “Growing Up,” Russell Baker NF
Aug. 02 “Fifth Business,” Robertson Davies CF
Sep. 02 “Geek Love,” Katherine Dunn CF
Oct. 02 “Empire Falls,” Richard Russo CF
Nov. 02 “How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson...,” Mark Twain K
Dec. 02 “Salem Falls,” Jodi Picoult CF

Jan. 03 “Straight on Til Morning,” Mary S. Lovell B
Feb. 03 “Small Wonder,” Barbara Kingsolver CF
Mar. 03 “The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton,” Mark Begiebing CF
Apr. 03 “Pinstripes and Pearls,” Judith Richards Hope NF
May 03 “Next,” Michael Lewis NF
Jun. 03 “Nickle and Dimed,” Barbara Ehrenreich NF
Jul. 03 “Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind,” Ann B. Ross CF
Aug. 03 “The Eyre Affair,” Jasper FForde CF
Sep. 03 “Angels and Demons,” Dan Brown CF
Oct. 03 “Middlesex,” Jeffrey Eugenides CF
Nov./Dec.03 “The Tin Drum,” Gunther Grass K

Jan. 04 “The Life of Pi,” Yann Martel CF
Feb. 04 “The Lobster Chronicles,” Linda Greenlaw NF
Mar. 04 “Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons”, Lorna Landvik CF
Apr. 04 “Middletown America…”, Gail Sheehy NF
May 04 “Trinity,” Leon Uris CF
June 04 “The Disobedience of Water “, Sena Jeter Naslund CF
July 04 “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Sijie Dai CF
Aug 04 “The Secret Life of Bees“, Sue Monk Kid CF
Sep 04 “The Piano Tuner“, Daniel Mason CF
Oct 04 “Waiting for Snow in Havana…“, Carlos Eire B
Nov 04 “Being Dead”, Jim Crace CF
Dec 04 “Madame Bovary”, Gustave Flaubert K

Jan 05 “Butch Cassidy A Biography”, Richard Patterson B
Feb. 05 “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime”, Mark Haddon CF
OR “Three Junes”, Julia Glass CF
Mar. 05 “The Color of Water”, James McBride NF
Apr. 05 “The Progress Paradox”, Gregg Easterbrook NF
May 05 “Every Second Counts”, Lance Armstrong NF
June 05 “Sight Hound”, Pam Houston CF
OR “Cloud Atlas”, David Mitchell CF
July 05 “The Screwtape Letters”, C.S. Lewis K
Aug. 05 “The Power of the Dog”, Thomas Savage CF
Sep. 05 “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, Carson McCullers CF
Oct. 05 “The Optimist’s Daughter”, Eudora Welty CF
Nov. 05 “The Shadow of the Wind”, Carlos Ruiz Zafon CF
Dec. 05 “Winter Dance”, Gary Paulsen NF

Jan. 06 “Running with Scissors”, Augusten Burroughs NF
Feb. 06 “Love in the Time of Cholera”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez K
Mar. 06 “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, Azar Nafisi NF
Apr. 06 “Red Water”, Judith Freeman HF
May 06 “When the Emperor was Divine”, Julie Otsaki CF
June 06 “A Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, Melissa Bank CF
July 06 “The Children of Willesden Lane…”, Mona Golabek NF
Aug 06 “Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight”, Alexandra Fuller B
Sep 06 “Atonement”, Ian McEwan F
Oct 06 “Founding Mothers, The Women Who Raised our Nation”, Cokie Roberts NF
Nov 06 "The Seduction of Water", Carol Goodman F
Dec 06 “Small Change, the Secret Life of Penny Buford”, J. Belinda Yandell F

Jan 07 “A House of Sight and Shadow”, Nicholas Griffin HF
Feb 07 continued…
Mar 07 “Moll Flanders”, Daniel Defoe K
April 07 "The Great Fire", Sarah Hazzard CF

May 07 "The Haunting of Hill House", Shirley Jackson CF

June 07 "A Fine Balance", Rohinton Mistry CF

July 07 "Water for Elephants", Sara Gruen CF
OR "A Pirate Looks at Fifty", Jimmy Buffett B

August /Sept 07 "Team of Rivals", Doris Kearns Goodwin NF

October 07 "The House on Mango Street", Sandra Cisneros CF

November 07 "The Memory Keepers Daughter", Kim Edwards CF

December 07 "The Red Tent", Anita Diamant, CF

January 08 "DROWN", Junot Diaz, CF

February 08 "Eat, Pray, Love", Elizabeth Gilbert, NF

March 08 "Into the Wild", Jon Krakhauer, NF

OR "Trespass" by Amy Irvine, NF

April 08 "Loving Frank", Nancy Horan, HF

May 08 "The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid", Bill Bryson, B

June 08 "The Air We Breathe", Andrea Barrett, HF

July 08 "The Fig Eater", Jodi Shields, CF

August 08 "Snowflower and the Secret Fan", Lisa See, CF

September 08 "Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest",

----> Sandra Day O'Connor, NF
October 08 "Broken for You", Stephanie K ollos, CF

November 08 "The Heretics Daughter", Kathleen Kent, CF

December 08 "Under the Bridge/Bajo el Puente", Rosario Sanmiguel, CF

January 09 "Black Like Me", Howard Griffin, CF

February 09 READER's CHOICE (pick a book)

March 09 "Returning to Earth", Jim Harrison, CF

April 09 "Dreamers of the Day", Mary Doria Russell, HF

May 09 " Skeletons on the Zahara", Dean King, F

June 09 "A Mercy", Toni Morrison, F

July 09 "Infidel", Ayaan Hirsi Ali

August 09 "The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted; and Other Small Acts of Liberation", Elizabeth Berg

September 09, "A Ship of Gold in Deep Blue Sea", by Gary Kinder

October 09

Type: B (biog.), CF (Contemporary Fiction), JF (Juvenile Fic.), K (Classic), M (Mystery), NF (Non-fic.), SF Science Fic.), HF (Historical Fiction)