Book Review and Discussion Group

April 7                 The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, suggested by

                             Lois, 9 copies in the library

 

May 5                   The Street by Ann Petry, suggested by Liliane, 1 copy in

                             the library, one sound recording there, and 2 copies in

                             Alderman.  Liliane also has a copy.

 

June 2                   Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, suggested by Vicki,
                             12 copies in the library

 

August 4              Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, suggested by Judy, 8 copies

                             in the library and one sound recording.

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Past selections have been:

PNIN by Valdimir Nabokov
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Animal, Bebgetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
Rabbit Run by John Updike
The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (British Title: The Legacy)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Francis Abiola Irele
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
    by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Bad Man Blues: A Portable George Garrett by George Garrett
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barrack Obama 
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Movie Goer by Walker Percy
Gray Fox by Burke Davis
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
State of Denial by Bob Woodward
Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison by Richard N. Cote
The Mighty and the Almighty by Madeleine Korbel Albright
The Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton, suggested by Janet
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, suggested by Ellen
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, suggested by Liliane
The Year of the Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnowa
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Midwife's Tale by Gretchebn Moran Laskkas
Without Reservation:The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
The Forest Lover by  Susan Vreeland
The Way the Crow Flies a novel by Jeffory Archer
The Known World by Edwin Jones
Sweet Caroline by Christopher Anderson
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A Bridge Between Us by Julie Shigekunt
The Devil in The White City by Erik Larson
Before Women had Wings by Connie Fowler
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernst Gaines
Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill
Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Jay Fowler
The Piano Tuner By Daniel Mason
Clara Callan by Richard Bruce Wright
Claire Marvel by John Schwartz
In the Name of Salome: A Novel by Julia Alvarez
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
TheEnglish Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Kitchen Privileges by Mary Higgins Clark
Winston Churchill by John Keegan
The Rose and the Nightingale by Nesta Ramazani
John Adams by David McCullough
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Unwise Passions, a True Story of a Rema by Alan Pell Crawford
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Hours Before Dawn by Jimmy Carter
Felicity by Kristen Rembold
The Woman Within by Ellen Glasgow
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
Interpreter of Maladies by Jumpa Lahiri
Plain Song by Kent Haruf