Thursday, January 4, 2024

Book Club Book list @ 9/2021

 (Updated 1/4/2024)

                              Year 1 September 2007

1.       9/07 The Glass Castle,  by Jeannette Walls

2.       10/07 Kabul Beauty School,  by Deborah Rodriguez

3.       11/07 Loving Frank , by Nancy Horan

4.       1/08 The Dissident,  by Nell Freudenberger

5.       2/08 A Spot of Bother,  by Mark Haddon

6.       3/08 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, by Maggie O’Farrell

7.       4/08 Paint it Black,  by Janet Fitch

8.       5/08 Disgrace,  by J.M. Coetzee

9.       6/08 Echo Maker , by Richard Powers

10.   7/08 My Antonia,  by Willa Cather

                      Year 2

11.   9/08 Kavalier and Clay,  by Michael Chabon

12.   10/08 The Art of Racing In The Rain,  by Garth Sein

13.   11/08 The Good Earth,  by Pearl S. Buck

14.   12/08 Object Lessons,  by Anna Quindlen

15.   1/09 The Flander’s Panel,  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

16.   2/09 The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao,  by Jumot Diaz

17.   3/09 The Seduction of Water,  by Carol Goodman

18.   4/09 Howards End,  by E. M. Forster

19.   5/09 The Book Thief,  by Markus Zusak

20.   6/09 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,  by Jamie Ford

21.   7/09 People of the Book,  by Geraldine Brooks

                     Year 3

22.   9/09 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,  by David Wroblewski

23.   10/09 The Help,  by Kathryn Stockett

24.   11/09 Olive Kitteridge,  by Elizabeth Strout

25.   12/09 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,  by Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows

26.   1/10 The Elegance of the Hedgehog,  by Muriel Barbery

27.   2/10 Nine Parts of Desire,  by Geraldine Brooks

28.   3/10 Traveling with Pomegranates,  by Sue Monk Kidd/Ann Kidd Taylor

29.   4/10 Wickett’s Remedy,  by Myla Goldberg

30.   5/10 Ender’s Game,  by Orson Scott Card

31.   6/10 Lady Chatterley’s Lover,  by D.H. Lawrence

32.   7/10 Pearl of China,  by Anchee Min

                          Year 4

33.   9/10 Let The Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

34.   10/10 Cutting For Stone, by Abraham Verghese

35.   11/10 The Girl Who Played With The Dragon Tattoo, by Steig Larsson

36.   12/10 The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Steig Larsson

37.   1/11 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, by Steig Larsson

38.   2/11 Moloka’i , by Alan Brennert

39.   3/11 An Inconvenient Elephant, by Judy Renee Singer

40.   4/11 The Shadow Of The Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

41.   5/11 Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand

42.   6/11 Little Bee, by Chris Cleave

43.   7/11 The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

                           Year 5

44.   9/11 The Way To Paradise, by Mario Vargas Llosa

45.   10/11 When A Crocodile Eats The Sun, by Peter Goodwin

46.   11/11 Bossy Pants, by Tina Fey

47.   12/11 City of Thieves, by David Benioff

48.   1/12 The Budda In The Attic, by Julia Otsuka

49.   2/12 The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson

50.   3/12 America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, by Mark Steyn

51.   4/12 My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir, by Mark Whitaker

52.   5/12 The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht

53.   6/12 To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

54.   7/12 Defending Jacob, by William Landay

55.   8/12 Biography, choice of biographies

                         Year 6

56.   9/12 Behind The Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo

57.   10/12 Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

58.   11/12 State of Wonder by, Ann Patchett

59.   12/12 Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne

60.   1/13 The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

61.   2/13 City of Women, by David Gilham

62.   3/13 Wild, by Cheryl Strayed

63.   4/13 Round House, by Louisa Erdrich

64.   5/13 The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom

65.   6/13 The Middlestein’s, by Jami Attenberg

66.   7/13 The Aviator’s Wife, by Melanie Benjamin

                               Year 7

67.   9/13 The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout

68.   10/13 The Mountains Echoes, by Khaled Hasseini

69.   11/13 Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

70.   12/13 We are Water, by Wally Lamb

71.   1/14 Secret Daughter, by Shilpi Gowda

72.   2/14 Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler

73.   3/14 Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman

74.   4/14 The Cookoo’s Calling by Robert Galbrath

75.   5/14 The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri

76.   6/14 Under the Starry Sky, by Nancy Horan

77.   7/14 Five Days at Memorial, by Sheri Fink

78.   8/14 The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd

                                Year 8

79.   9/14 Notorious Life, by Kate Manning

80.   10/14 The Valley of Amazement, by Amy Tan

81.   11/14 The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman

82.   12/14 Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

83.   1/15 The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel Brown

84.   2/15 You Should have Known, by Jean Korelitz

85.   3/15 The Children’s Act, by  Ian McEwan

86.   4/15 The Walk Across the Sun, by Corban Addison

87.   5/15 The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson

88.   6/15 Americanah, by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie

89.   7/15 The Boston Girl, by Anita Diamant

90.   8/15 The Residence, by Kate Anderson Brower

                                    Year 9

91.   9/15 The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

92.   10/15 Bettyville, by George Hodgman

93.   11/15 Missoula, by John Krakauer

94.   12/15 Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah

95.   1/16 God Help the Child, by Toni Morrison

96.   2/16 Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

97.   3/16 My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout

98.   4/16 The Door by Magda, Magda Szabo

99.   5/16 The Art of Hearing Heart Beats, by Jan-Philipp Sendker

100.           6/16 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

101.           7/16 Avenue of Mysteries, by John Irving

102.           8/16 M Train, by Patti Smith

                               

                                                Year 10

103.           9/16 Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

104.           10/16 Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

105.           11/16 The Underground Railroad by Colsom Whitehead

106.           12/16 A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

107.           1/17 Midnight in Broad Daylight by Pamela Rosner Sakamoto

108.           2/17 Runaway by Alice Munro

109.           3/17 Commonwealth by Ann Patchet

110.           4/17 Tess of the D’Urbivilles by Thoms Hardy

111.           5/17 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

112.           6/17 The Space Between Us by Thirty Umrigar

113.           7/17 Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

114.           8/17 The Girls by Emma Cline

Year 11

115.           9/17 Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein

116.           10/17 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

117.           11/17 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

118.           12/17 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

119.           1/18 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

120.           2/18 Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel

121.           3/18 [NYC Opera Outing!]

122.           4/18 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

123.           5/18 Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

124.           6/18 Educated by Tara Westover

125.           7/18 To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

126.           8/18 Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

Year 12

127.           9/18 The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn

128.           10/18 The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk

129.           11/18 Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gramm

130.           12/18 There There by Tommy Orange

131.           1/19 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

132.           2/19 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

133.           3/19 The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urea

134.           4/19 UnSheltered by Barbara Kingsilver

135.           5/19 The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

136.           6/19 The Power by Naomi Alderman

137.           7/19 Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb

138.           8/19 Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

Year 13

139.           9/19 Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

140.           10/19 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

141.           11/19 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

142.           12/19 Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin

143.           1/20 Book by Toni Morrison (Reader’s Choice)

144.           2/20 Know My Name by Chanel Miller 

145.           3/20 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

146.           4/20 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

147.           5/20 Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

148.           6/20 A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

149.           7/20 The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

150.           8/20 Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

                                                Year 14

151.           9/20 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

152.           10/20 The Mountains Sing by Que Mai Phan Nguyen

153.           11/20 Street Car Named Desire; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams

154.           12/20 Akin by Emma Donoghue

155.           1/21 The Splendid and The Vile by Erik Larson

156.           2/21 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

157.           3/21 Heavy, An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

158.           4/21 Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout

159.           5/21 The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare

160.           6/21 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

161.           7/21 Inherit The Wind; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee

162.           8/21 The Four Winds by Kirsten Hannah

                                                Year 15

163. 9/21 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

164. 10/21 The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkah

165. 11/21 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

166. 12/21 The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

167. 1/22 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

168. 2/22 The Swim In A Pond In The Rain and Other Short Stories by George Saunders

169. 3/22 Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

170. 4/22 Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman

171. 5/22 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

172. 6/22 The Animal Family by Randall Jerrell

7/22 Skipped – no book

173. 8/22 Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty


Year 16


174. 9/22 Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh


175. 10/22 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich

176. 11/22 Rashomon & In a Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

177. 12/22 The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

1/23 Skipped – no book

178. 2/23 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

179. 3/23 Evening in Paradise, and Others by Lucia Berlin

180. 4/23 The Book of Language by Sue Monk Kidd

181. 5/23 Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

182. 6/23 Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

183. 7/23 Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner

184. 8/23 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah


Year 17

185. 9/23 Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende

186. 10/23 It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

187. 11/23 The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

188. 12/23 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

189. 1/24 Trust by Hernan Diaz

190. 2/24 North Woods by Daniel Mason

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