Thursday, March 28, 2013

Books We Have Read as a group


Recent books are at the bottom of list:



 No date – “Losing the Garden” by Laura Waterman

***No date –“Glass Castle” – Jeanette Walls

***October 22, 2006 – “Three Cups of Tea” – Greg Mortenson

***No date – “Kite Runner”

No date – “Namesake”

***No date – “A Fine Balance” Rohinton Mistry

No date – “A Thousand White Women”

***No date -  “Bel Canto” by Anne Patchett

***2005 – Broken for You – Stephanie Kallos

***December 2005 – Shadow of the Wind

November 19, 2006 -   "History of Love" by Nicole Kraus

December 10, 06   "The Painted Drum" by Louise  Erdrich.   

***January 7, 2007    "The Five Quarters of the Orange" by Joanne Harris

***February 11, 2007 "Suite Francaise", by Irene Nemirovsky

 March 4, 2007  "A Short History of  Tractors in Ukrainian" by Marina Lewycka

***April 2007 -  "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

***April 29, 2007   "Waiting" by Ha Jian

*** June 3, 2007 -   "My Antonia" by Willa Cather

July 1, 2007 - "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.  

***July 29, 2007 - "Gentlemen & Players" by Joanne Harris

***September 23, 2007    "Astrid and Veronika" by Linda Olsson

***October 2007  Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth".

***October 21, 2007 - "In the Lake of the Woods" by Tim O'Brien 

November 17, 2007   , "Peyton Place" – Six Burner Café after “Spitfire Grill”

January 6, 2008   "Keeping Faith" by Jodi Picoult

February 3, 2008 “In the Fall” Jeffrey Lent

***March 2, 2008 – “Crossing to Safety” Wallace Stegner

April 6, 2008- Sunday at 3:00 PM  Jeffrey Lent at the Silver Center followed by dinner at Six Burner Bistro
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April 27, 2008 "These is My Words" by Nancy Turner

***June 1, 2008 -    "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving.

July 6, 2008   Jeffrey Lent's "Lost Nation". 

August 10, 2008  "The Last Chinese Chef" by Nicole Mones  

September 14, 2008, “Crow Lake” by Mary Lawson

October 5, 2008  "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami  

November 2, 2008   Consumption" by Kevin Patterson. 

December 7, 2008. “Some Can Whistle”

January 4, 2009  “Loving Frank”

February 1, 2009 -  “Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral”

***March 1, 2009 – “When the Crocodile Eats the Sun” – Peter Godwin (memoir)

***April 1, 2009 – “East of Eden”, John Steinbeck

***May 30, 2009 – “The Reader”, Berhard Schlink

June 28, 2009 – “Sassy Tree”

July 26, 2009 – “Garden in the Dunes”

***August 30, 2009 – “The Life and Death of Charlie St. Cloud” 

September 27, 2009 – “Pope Joan”

October 25, 2009 – “The Scalpel and the Silver Bear”

November, 2009 – no meeting

December 6, 2009 – “The Housekeeper and the Professor”

***January 31, 2010 – “Olive Kitteridge”

February 28, 2010 – “Sin in the Second City”

March 28, 2010 –  “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers

April 18, 2010 – “Main Street” by Sinclair Lewis

***May 16, 2010 – “Cellist of Sarajevo” by Stephen Galloway

June 27, 2010 – “Mists of Avalon”

July 25, 2010 – “We Took to the Woods” by Louise Dickinson Rich

August 29, 2010 – “Ines of My Soul” – Isabel Allende

***September 26, 2010 -  “The Help” – 

October 31, 2010 – "A Tale of Two Valleys" by Alan Deutschman,

November 2010 – No meeting

***December 5, 2010 – “Power of One” – Bryce Courtenay

January 30, 2011 – Reservation Blues –  Sherman Alexie

***February 27, 2011 – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford

***March 27, 2011 – “Strength in What Remains” by Tracy Kidder

April, 2011 – no meeting

***May 15, 2011 – “Water for Elephants” by Sarah Gruen

June 26, 2011 – “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot

July 31, 2011 – “The Widow’s War” by Sarah Gunning

***August 21, 2011 – “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand”

September 25, 2011 – “The Girl who Fell from the Sky”

***October 30, 2011 – “The Bells” by Richard Harvell

***December 4, 2011 – “Kindred” by Octavia Butler

January 29, 2012 – “The Wives of Henry Oades – a Novel” by Johanna Moran

***February 25, 2012 – “Breakfast with Buddha”

March 25, 2012 – Ann Patchett  “State of Wonder”

April 29, 2012 – James McBride “ The Color of Water”

May 20, 2012 -  The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister

July 1, 2012 – Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd

July 29, 2012 – Old Filth by Jane Gardam

***August 26, 2012 – “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez

***September 30 – “Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury

October 28, 2012 – “Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society

December 1, 2012 – “11/22/63” – by Stephen King

Jan;uary 27, 2013 – “The Sense of an Ending” by Julian Barnes

February 24, 2013 – “Their Eyes were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

March 24, 2013 – “Lower River” by Paul Therouix

April 2013 – No meeting

***May 19, 2013 – “Clara and Mr. Tiffany”  by Susan Veerland

***June30, 2013 – “The Art of Hearing Heartbeats”

*** - Books liked by Kathy Didier

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