Upcoming Books:

September 10, 2013: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

October 8, 2013: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin

November 12, 2013: "BYOB" (bring your own book): members will each select their own book to read and then come tell the group about their selection.

December 10, 2013: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse ~ and our annual holiday celebration ~ bring a treat to share & come join us!

Complete Reading List

2008

Jan. 22nd: Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thorton Wilder

Feb. 26th: On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

March 25th: All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren

April 22nd: Mandella: A Critical Life, by Tom Lodge

May 27th: Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet

June 24th: Pontoon: a Lake Wobegon Novel, by Garrison Keillor

July 22nd: Le Divorce, Le Mariage or L’Affaire, by Diane Johnson

Aug. 26th: The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler

Sept. 23rd: From Baghdad with Love, by Jay Kopelman

Oct. 28th: When Elephants Weep, by J. Masson Moussaieff

Nov. 25th: The Lady and the Panda, by Vicki Croke

Dec. 23rd: No Meeting

2009

Jan, 27th: The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Feb. 17th: Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson

Mar. 17th: Persuasion, by Jane Austen

Apr 21th: Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama

May 19th: Franklin and Lucy, by Joseph E. Persico

Jun 16th: John Adams, by David G. McCullough

July 8th: Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

Aug. 12th: Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do and What It Says About Us, by Tom Vanderbilt

Sept. 2nd: I'm a Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson

Oct. 7th: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah

Nov. 4th: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Dec. 2nd: In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, by Jean Shepherd

2010

Jan. 5th: Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, by MaryAnn Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Feb. 2nd: The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein

March 9th: Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

April 13th: Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan

May 11th: Animal Farm, by George Orwell

June 8th: The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan

July 13th: Making Toast, by Roger Rosenblatt

Aug. 10th: The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by Caroline Alexander

Sept. 14th: Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy, by Jostein Gaarder

Oct. 12th: The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria

Nov. 9th: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

Dec. 14th: A History of the World in Six Glasses, by Tom Standage

2011

Jan. 11th: The Smart Swarm, by Peter Miller

Feb. 8th: The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

Mar. 8th: Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortensen

Apr. 12th: The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

May 10th: Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin

Mar. 8th: Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortensen

Apr. 12th: The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

May 10th: Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin

June 14: The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomatox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers, By John C. Waugh

July 12: Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation, by Sheila Weller

August 9: Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card

September 13: At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson

October 11: The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss, by Edmnd De Waal

November 8: Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff

December 13: The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse

2012

January 10, 2012: Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, by Lisa See

February 14, 2012: Cousin Bette, by Honore de Balzac

March 13, 2012: Those Who Save Us, by Jenna Blum

April 10, 2012: Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell

February 14, 2012: Cousin Bette, by Honore de Balzac

March 13, 2012: Those Who Save Us, by Jenna Blum

April 10, 2012: Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell

May 8, 2012: The Sherlockian, by Graham Moore

June 12, 2012: The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss

July 10, 2012: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

August 14, 2012: What is Left the Daughter, by Howard Norman

September 11, 2012: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker

October 9, 2012: The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien

November 13, 2012: Hard Times, by Charles Dickens

December 11, 2012: Very Good, Jeeves, by PG Wodehouse

2013: 

January 8: Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

February 12: 11/22/63 by Stephen King

March 12: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemac Lemmon

April 9: Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

May 14: Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichi 

June 11: Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts 

July 9: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (optional: plus the continuation: Shadows on the Grass)

August 13:  Beach Music by Pat Conroy

September 10:  Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

October 8: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin

November 12: "BYOB" (bring your own book): members will each select their own book to read and then come tell the group about their book.

December 10: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse