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Book Club Number One

 

The first Tuesday of each month the Library's Tuesday Night Book Club gathers to discuss our most recent read. This book club is currently at capacity.

 

 

2013 Reading List

 

The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich

 

The Sea by John Banville

 

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

 

Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin

 

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

 

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

 

The Thousand Autumn's of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

 

The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb

 

Why Men Lie by Linden MacIntyre

 

Room by Emma Donaghue

 

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley

 

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

 

 

 

2012 Reading List:

 

The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys

 

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

 

The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory

 

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

 

Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones

 

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

 

House Rules by Jodi Piccoult

 

Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

 

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

 

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

 

Mercy Among the Children by David Adam Richards

 

 

2011 Reading List:

 

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

 

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

 

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

 

The Birth House by Ami McKay

 

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

 

Saturday by Ian McEwan

 

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

 

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

 

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Wells

 

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

 

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

 

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

 

Mercy Among the Children by David Adam Richards

 

 

 

2010 Reading List:

 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

 

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

 

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

 

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

 

Mortal Fear  by Greg Iles

 

Atonement by Ian McEwan

 

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

 

 

 

2009 Reading List:

 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

 

Deafening by Frances Itani

 

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

 

The Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper

 

Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens


A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

 

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

 

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

 

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Laura Landvik

 

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam

 

Small Island by Andrea Levy

 

 

 

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Book Club Number Two

 

The second Tuesday of each month the Library's newest Tuesday Night Book Club gathers to discuss our most recent read. This book club is currently at capacity.


2013 Reading List

 

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

 

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

 

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

 

The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

 

Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin

 

The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb

 

Blindness by Jose Saramago

 

The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich

 

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

 

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley

 

Room by Emma Donaghue

 


2012 Reading List:

 

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

 

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

 

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

 

In the Skin of the Lion by Michael Ondaatje

 

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland

 

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

 

The Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat

 

Sarah's Key by Tatiana Rosnay

 

The Magus by John Fowles

 

The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

 

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

 

 

 

2011 Reading List:

 

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

 

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

 

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

 

Hominids by Robert Sawyer

 

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis

 

The Elegance of Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

 

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

 

 

 

 

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