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Here's what we've read in the past!

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2008  
August 13 Like Normal People by Karen Bender
July 9 Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
June 11 The Nick Adams Stories  by Ernest Hemingway
May 14 Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
April 9 Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
March 12 The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
February 13 The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
January 9 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
 

2007

 

December 12 Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
November 14 The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
October 10 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
September 12 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
August 8 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
July 11 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
June 13 Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
May 9 Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
  Dark of the Moon by PJ Parrish
April 11 Digging to America by Anne Tyler

March 14

Light on Snow by Anita Shreve

February 14

The Wedding by Dorothy West

January 10

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

 

 

2006

 

December 13

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

November 8

In the Land of Second Chances by George Shaffner

October 11        

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

September 13    

A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton

August 9

The Bottoms by Joe Lansdale

July 12

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

June 14

Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman

May 30

Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

May 10

Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

April 25

Undertaking by Thomas Lynch

April 12

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

March 28

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

March 8

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

February 28

All the Presidents Children by Doug Wead

February 8

Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown

January 31

The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher

January 11

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

 

 

2005

 

November 29

An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

November 9

Trees by Conrad Richter

October 25

Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenslaw

October 12

Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver

September 27

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

September 14

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

August 30

All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg

August 10

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

July 26

Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon

July 13

So Big by Edna Ferber

June 28

Population 485 by Michael Perry

June 8

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

May 31

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

May 11

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

April 26

Funny in Farsi by Dumas Firoozeh

April 13

Moo by Jane Smiley

March 29

Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon

March 9

Regeneration by Pat Barker

February 22

A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

February 9

Book of Joe by Jonathan Trapper

 

 

2004

 

November 30

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

November 10

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

October 26

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

October 13

Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey

September 28

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

September 8

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

August 14

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

July 14

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrehreich

June 9

Not the End of the World by Christopher Brookmyre

May 12

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

April 14

The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken

February 11

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

January 14

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

 

 

2003

 

November

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

October

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

 

 
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