Reading List Fall 1999 to the Present: Updated 10/29/15
Late Fall 1999
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Turbulent Souls by Stephen Dubner Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson Midwives by Chris Bohjalian Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts Fall 2000 Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver While I Was Gone by Sue Miller The Innocents Within by Robert Daley The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah Wait'Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin The Ladies' Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis The Human Stain by Philip Roth The Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Fall 2001 The Lost Legends of New Jersey by Frederick Reiken The Plain Truth by Jodi Piccoult In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns (Goodwin) The Ghost of Hannah Mendes by Naomi Ragen The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Fall 2002 The Pact by Jodi Piccoult Empire Falls by Richard Russo Panther in the Basement by Amoz Oz Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende The Emperor Of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvares The Hours by Michael Cunningham One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Fall 2003 East of Eden by John Steinbeck Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Attonement by Ian McEwan The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Embers by Sandor Marai The Other Boelyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Fall 2004 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Daisy Miller by Henry James We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Fall 2005 The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Plot Against America by Philip Roth A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld Ester and Ruzya by Masha Gessen Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd Fall 2006 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See March by Geraldine Brooks The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigian The Three Junes by Julia Glass Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos |
Fall 2007 Expecting Adam by Martha Beck Night by Elie Wiesel Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler 5/12/08 Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 6/30/08 Away by Amy Bloom 8/4/08 Fall 2008 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon 9/15/08 The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama 10/27/08 Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean 12/1/08 American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld 1/19/09 Loving Frank by Nancy Horan 2/23/09 The Shack by Wm. Paul Young 3/30/09 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 5/11/09 Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 7/13/09 Fall 2009 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 9/14/09 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 11/2/09 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 12/14/09 Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom Monday, 1/18/10 The Help by Kathryn Stockett 3/1/10 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 4/12/10 Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows 5/24/10 The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman TUESDAY 7/13/10 Fall 2010 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - 9/27/10 A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick 11/8/10 Little Bee by Chris Cleave - 12/13/10 The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - 1/17/11 Cutting for Stone by Abrahamn Verghese - 3/28/11 This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper - 4/25/11 Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano - 6/6/11 Day After Night by Anita Diamant - 8/15/11 Fall 2011 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - 9/26/11 The Paris Wife by Paula McLain - 11/7/11 The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer - 12/12/11 Beneath a Marble Sky: A Love Story by John Shors 1/16/12 The Man In the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado 2/27/12 The Devil in the White City, Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Eric Larson 4/16/12 Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult 5/21/12 Fall 2012 Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago 8/13/12 State of Wonder by Ann Patchett 10/8/12 The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom 11/12/12 The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 12/10/12 Defending Jacob by William Landay - 1/21/13 11/22/63 by Stephen King -3/4/13 Freeman by Leonard Pitt Jr. - 4/15/13 The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton - 6/10/13 Fall 2013 The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan - 8/15/13 Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter - 9/23/13 Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline - 10/28/13 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - 12/9/13 Wonder by R. J. Palacio - 1/20/14 Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh- 3/10/14 The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman - 4/28/14 My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor - 6/9/14 Fall 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 8/11/14 The Submission by Amy Waldman - 9/15/14 The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - 10/27/14 The Mapmaker's Daughter by Laurel Corona- 12/1/14 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 1/19/15 The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty - 3/16/15 Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt - 5/11/15 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown - 7/20/15 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - 8/31/15 Fall 2015 |