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The book club gets together once a month to meet with each other and discuss their latest book selections. Meetings take place at 7PM on the third Wednesday of the month.

Upcoming in 2009
March 18, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
April 15, The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (former Smith College President)
May 20, Possession by A. S. Byatt

Below is a list of past meetings and the titles discussed.

2009
Feb 18, The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Jan 21, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

2008
Nov 19, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Sept tbd, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
July 16, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
June 18, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
May 14, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
April 16, Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
March 19, The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
February 20, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
January 23, East of Eden by John Steinbeck

2006-2007
December (no meeting)
November 14, Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg
July, My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
June 28, On Beauty by Zadie Smith
May 23, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape by Barry Lopez
April 25, The Places in Between
March 21, The Hobbitt by J.R.R. Tolkien
February 21, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
January 17, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
November 15, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
October 18, March by Geraldine Brooks (Civil War-era fiction featuring the Little Women father, Mr. March)
September 20, Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
July 20, Vintage Munro by Alice Munro
June 21, Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester
May 17, Saturday by Ian McEwan
April 19, Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson
March 15, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
February 8, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
January 15, True Notebooks by Mark Salzman

2005
November 16, The Control of Nature by John McPhee
October 18, Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks
September 14, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
July 13, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
     and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
April 20, Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
March 16, Three Junes by Julia Glass
February 16, Persepolis I and Persepolis II by Marjane Satrapi
January 19, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2004
November 17, The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
October 20, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
September 14, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
July 21, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
June 23, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
May 12, A Woman's Education by Jill Ker Conway
April 21, Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
March 10, Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
February 11, Blessings by Anna Quindlen.
January 14, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

2003
November 18, Longitudes and Attitudes, by Thomas Friedman
October 15, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
September 16, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
July 15, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
June 18, Dakota by Kathleen Norris
May 13, Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
April 22, Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
March 19, The Hours by Michael Cunningham
February 19, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
January 22, Choose your own work by Ernest Hemingway

2002
November 20, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
October 15, The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
September 15, John Adams by David McCullough
August 20, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sajie
July 16, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

For more information contact book club organizer, Anne Flegel [email protected]

 


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