The Library Book Discussion Group has discussed many books over the years. Here is a partial listing:
2007
"The Big Read" - Fahrenheit 451
A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
2006
March : a novel by Geraldine Brooks
Blue Sky Dream : A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace by David Beers
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
The Lost Mother by Mary McGarry Morris
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Kitchen Boy : a novel of the last Tsar by Robert Alexander
The Keeper's Son by Homer Hickam
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
A Year in Provence by Peter MayleFunny in Farsi : a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, by Firoozeh Duma
2005
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Quest for Liberty by Robert H. Rowe
Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
Lost Boys: why our sons turn violent and how we can save them by James Garbarino
(Up for discussion in July!) Your favorite book!
World of Pies by Karen Stolz
Under the Snow by Kerstin Ekman
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Journey Home by Olaf Olafsson
2004
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
Hunger Moon by Suzanne Matson
The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Nine Parts of Desire: the Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys
2003
Life Estates by Shelby Hearon
Veronica Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsuikiyama
Road from Coorain by Jill Conway
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud
The Queen's Man by Sharon Penman
Ava's Man by Rick Bragg
2002
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Bound Feet Western Dress by Natasha Pang-Mei Chang
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
The Hiding Place by Corrie TenBoom
Last Orders by Graham Swift
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Year by Sue Hubbell
July 7th by Jill McCorkle
Dust Tracks on the Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Growing Up by Russell Baker
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres
2001
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Cider House Rules by John Irving
Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Isles of Shoals in Lore & Legend by Lyman Rutledge
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
2000
The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Curtis
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman
Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
Names of the Mountains by Reeve Lindbergh
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
Poisonwood Bible by Barabara Kingsolver
Awakening by Kate Chopin
Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
1999
Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
Cora Fry's Pillow Talk by Rosellen Brown
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewelyn
Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sisters of Fortune by Nancy Heffernan
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Till Morning Comes by Han Suyin
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
1998
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moorehead
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Claven
Jip by Katherine Paterson
Mandala by Pearl Buck
Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Updated 01/24/08