Upcoming Selections                                       ______________

August 12^th The Falls by Joyce Carol Oats

 

September 9^th  Last Orders by Graham Swift

 

October 13^th The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

 

 

 

Previous Discussions_____________________________________________

 

2008

Sky Burial by Xinran. July. 

Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton. June.

Signed Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy. May. Discussion led by Joe and Mary Beth Harper.

White Noise by Don DeLillo. April.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. March.

Winter of our Discontent by Steinbeck. February.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. January. Discussion led by Joe and Mary Beth Harper.

 

2007

Staggerford  by Jon Hassler. November. Discussion led by John and Rae Joyce Marsyla.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. October. Discussion led by Joe and Mary Beth Harper.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. September. Discussion led by Len and Charlotte Henschel.

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie. August

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. July

The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. June

The March by E.L. Doctorow. May

Saturday by Ian Mcewan.  April.

The Quiet American by Graham Greene. March.

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. February.

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. January.

 

2006

Never Let me Go by Kazuro Ishiguro.   November.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. October.

The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck  September

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, trans. by Lucía Graves. August

Embers by Sandor Marai, trans. Carol Brown Janeway. July

Atonement by Ian McEwan. June

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. May. Discussion led by Joe Higgins.

Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls April

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. March

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. February.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. January

 

2005

Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith. November

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. October

Paul Jones’ The Known World. September

Sarah Dunant’sThe Birth of Venus. August

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. July

Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake. June

Dennis Bock’s The Ash Garden. May.

Robert Clark’s In the Deep Midwinter. April.

John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces. March.

         Discussion led by Michael Mullen.

Carl Hiaasen’s Skinny Dip. February.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 100 Years of Solitude. January.

 

2004

Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. November.

Nabokov’s Lolita. October.

Louise Erdrich’s Master Butchers Singing Club. August.

Isabel Allende’s Portrait in Sepia. July.

Dia Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. June.

Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. May.

      Discussion led by Michael Mullen.

Nicholas Shakespeare’s The Dancer Upstairs. April

Stephen King’s The Long Walk. March

D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover. February

Richard Russo’s Empire Falls. January.

 

2003

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. November. 

Andre Dubus III’s House of Sand and Fog. October

Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. September.

Sue Monk Kidd’s Secret Life of Bees. August

Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael.  July. Discussion led by Michael Mullen.

Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin. June.

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi May 2003.

Joanne Harris’ Four Quarters of the Orange April 2003.

John Le Carre’s The Constant Gardener.  March 2003.

Robert James Waller’s A Thousand Country Roads. February 2003.

Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. January 2003.

 

2002

Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things. November 2002.

Manil Suri’s Death of Vishnu October  2002.

John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer September 2002.

Steve Martin’s Shopgirl  August 2002.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov July 2002.

Anne Tyler’s Back When We Were Grownups. June 2002.

Luis Sepulveda’s The Old Man Who Read Love Stories. May 2002.

Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. April 2002.

Michael Connelly’s A Darkness More than Night. March 2002.

Elizabeth Berg’s Open House. February 2002.

Italo Calvin’s Invisible Cities. January 2002.

 

2001

Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth. November 2001.

Lauren Belfer’s City of Light. October 2001.

(J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. September 2001—dropped 9/11)

Bernice McFadden’s Sugar. August 2001.

Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger. July 2001

David Lurie’s Disgrace. June 2001.

Dava Sobel’s Galileo’s Daughter. May 2001.

Tracy Chevalier’s Girl With the Pearl Earring. April 2001.

John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius. March 2001.

J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. February 2001.

Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune. January 2001.

 

2000

Lori Marie Carlson’s The Sunday Tertulia. December 2000. 

Kent Haruf’s Plainsong. November 2000.

Jose Saramago’s Blindness. October 2000.

John Grisham’s The Brethren. September 2000.
Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible. August 2000.
Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being.  July 2000.

Graham Greene's End of the Affair. June 2000.
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. May 2000.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. April 2000.
Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker. February 2000.
Nora Zeal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.  January 2000.

 

1999
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. November 1999.
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. October 1999.
D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow. September 1999.