Book Club L

Our Past Book Club books

2000

• February 2000           Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama (St. Martin’s Press, 1991)
• March 2000     Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott (Fawcett Books, 1994)
• April 2000        Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (Tor Books, September 1998)
• May 2000         Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments (Anchor Books, February 1994)
• June 2000       The Bone People by Keri Hulme  (Viking Press, October 1986)
• July 2000         Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood edited by Camile Peri and Kate Moses
• August 2000    From Strength to Strength by Sara Henderson (St. Martins Press, April 2000)
• Sept 2000        Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• October 2000 The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver
• Nov      2000    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Dec     2000    The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

2001

• January 2001             The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• February 2001             Married to a Stranger by Nahid Rachlin
• March 2001     The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.
• April 2001        A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story  by David Eggers
• May 2001         The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
• June 2001       Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• July  2001        Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Aug   2001       A Woman’s Path : Women’s Best Spiritual… (Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, Anne Lamott,  & more)
• Sept 2001        West with the Wind by Beryl Markham
• October 2001 How Stella Got her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
• Nov 2001         The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Dec 2001        The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

2002

• Jan 2002         Shop Girl by Steve Martin
• Feb 2002         Big Purple Mommy: Nurturing Our Creative Work, Our Children, and Ourselves by Colleen Hubbard
• March 2002     The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 566 pages
• April 2002        All New People by Anne Lamott 166 pages
• August 2002    Skellig by David Almond 182 pages
• Oct 2002         Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley 876 pages
• Nov 2002         One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 304 pages
• Dec 2002        Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis 336 pages

2003

• Jan 2003    The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma McLaughlin and  Nicola Kraus  352 pages
• Feb 2003         Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Helen Fielding 368 pages
• Mar 2003         Sarah: Women of Genesis Orson Scott Card 352 pages
• Apr 2003          Emma Jane Austen 384 pages
• May 2003         The Giver Lois Lowry 208 pages
• June 2003       Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand 432 pages
• July 2003         The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou 272 pages
• August 2003    Bellwether by Connie Willis
• Sep 2003         Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
• October 2003 Firestorm by Nevada Barr
• Nov 2003         The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)   by C.S. Lewis
• Dec 2003        Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

2004

• January 2004 Catch me If you Can by Frank Abagnale Jr.
• February 2004  In Code: A young woman’s Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
• March 2004     Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
• April 2004        Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
• May 2004         The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
• June 2004       Holes by Louis Sachar
• July 2004         Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Sep 2004         Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• October 2004 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
• Novem 2004    Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Dec 2004        A Newbery Christmas: Fourteen Stories of Christmas by Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh (ed)

2005

• January 2005 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• February:         The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• March:              The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
• April:                 Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M Forster
• May:                  About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• June:                 Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• July:                  The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• August:            Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
• September      The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• October           Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
• November       Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

2006

• January 2006 The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
• February          God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• March:             The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter by Katherine Ellison
• April:                The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• May:                 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
• June:               Spirits in the Wire by Charles de Lint
• July:                 The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory
• August:            Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• September      I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• October           Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
• November       The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• December       The Wave by Todd Strasser

2007

• January 2007 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• February          Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• March              The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
• April                 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• May                  Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
• June                The Prince of Morning Bells by Nancy Kress
• July                  Earth by David Brin
• October           Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• November       The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

2008

• January 2008 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• February:         The Faith Club by Idliby,  Oliver & Warner
• March:             What is the What by Dave Eggers
• April:                The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
• June:               Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir by Carolyn Jourdan
• July:                 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• August:            Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• October:          If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• November:      Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction by David Sheff
• December:      The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow

2009

• January 09:     Not a Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland with http://www.siliconvalleyreads.org/
• February          Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
• March               The Visible World by Mark Slouka
• April                 Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• May                  Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• June                Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
• July                  Welcome to Biotech Nation by Moira A. Gunn, Ph.D.
• August             Looking for Alaska by John Green
• September      Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope
• October            The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• November       Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2010

• January Julie & Julia by Julie Powell;  My Life in France by Julia Child
• February        Love Walked In by Marisa de Los Santos
• March              The Book Thief by Mark Zusak
• April                 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
• May                   Unwind by Neal Shusterman
• June                  Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• July                   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• August              Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• September      Real Life and Liars by Kristina Riggle
• October            Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• November       The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
• December         Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen

(From 2009 on, links  point to my reviews)