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Local Book Group Choices by Month, Starting January 2009

Updated March 4, 2010

Old Book Group Selections

2002–2008 (author) 2002–2008 (date)

Non-fiction titles are in Bold. Children's titles have a juv after the title and Young Adult has a YA .

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2010 Choices, by month

February

Author Title
Aswany, Alaa The Yacoubian Building
Auster, Paul New York Trilogy
Blum, Jenna Those Who Save Us
Danticat, Edwidge Brother, I'm Dying
De Bernières A Partisan's Daughter
Ebershoff, David The 19th Wife
Ferris, Joshua Then We Came To the End
Ford, Jamie Hotel On the Corner Of Bitter and Sweet
Gardam, Jane Old Filth
Liss, David Coffee Trader
Moran, Michelle Cleopatra's Daughter
O'Flynn, Catherine What We Lost
Patchett, Ann Bel Canto
Riordan, Rick The Lighting Theif juv
Sedaris, David When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Shaffer, Mary Ann Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Stone, Jeff Tiger juv
Theroux, Paul Dark Star Safari
Updike, John The Centaur
Updike, John Rabbit, Run
Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle
Zarr, Sara Sweethearts YA

January

Author Title
Ali, Monica In the Kitchen
Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid's Tale
Auster, Paul Man In the Dark
Benioff, David City Of Thieves
Blum, Jenna Those Who Save Us
Brooks, Geraldine Year Of Wonders
Conrad, Joseph Heart Of Darkness
Godwin, Peter When A Crocodile Eats the Sun
Hampl, Patricia The Florist's Daughter
Just, Ward Exiles In the Garden
Larson, Erik Devil In the White City
Lee, Janice The Piano Teacher
Lewycka, Marina Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
Machiavelli, Niccolò The Prince
Osborne, Frances The Bolter
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo Painter Of Battles
Petterson, Per Out Stealing Horses
Picoult, Jodi Handle With Care
Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now YA
Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale
Sher, Abby Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir Of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (among other things)
Trollope, Anthony The Way We Live Now
Umrigar, Thirty Space Between Us
Vande Velde, Vivian Three Good Deeds juv
Willis, Sarah Some Things That Stay
Wroblewski, David The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle

2009 Choices, by month

December

Author Title
Ackerman, Diane The Zookeepers's Wife
Beston, Henry The Outermost House
Child, Julia My Life In France
Ebershoff, David The 19th Wife
Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex
García Márquez, Gabriel Memories Of My Melancholy Whores
Gardam, Jane Old Filth
Greer, Andrew Sean Story Of a Marriage
Halberstam, David October 1964
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan Infidel
Hulme, John The Glitch In Sleep juv
Korman, Gordon Schooled YA
Malamud, Bernard The Magic Barrel
Miller, Sue The Senator's Wife
Patchett, Ann The Magician's Assistant
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos Shadow Of the Wind
Zülfü, Livaneli Bliss

November

Author Title
Anderson, Laurie Speak YA
Barreca, Regina It's Not That I'm Bitter
Bernstein, Paula Identical Strangers
Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace
Cooper, Helene The House at Sugar Beach
Doig, Ivan Whistling Season
Gee, Sophie Scandal of the Season
Gordon, Ernest Through the Valley of the Kwai
Hobbs, Will Go Big or Go Home juv
Lahiri, Jhumpa Unaccustomed Earth
Le Carré, John The Secret Pilgrim
Marx, Patricia Him, Her, Him Agian, the End of Him
Mercier, Pascal Night Train to Lisbon
O'Neill, Joseph Netherland
Orwell, George Burmese Days
Robinson, Marilynne Home
Updike, John Terrorist
Winthrop, Elizabeth Counting On Grace juv
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October

Author Title
Bernstein, Paula Identical Strangers: A Memoir Of Twins Separated and Reunited
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brooks, Geraldine March
Crosley, Sloane I Was Told There's Be Cake
Edwards, Selden The Little Book
Fadiman, Anne The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Hardy, Thomas The Return Of the Native
Hazzard, Shirley Transit Of Venus
Horan, Nancy Loving Frank
Horn, Dara The World to Come
Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns
King, Stephen Different Seasons
Kushner, Rachel Telex From Cuba
Martin, Ann A Dog's Life: the Autobiography Of a Stray juv
Mistry, Rohinton Such a Long Journey
Moore, Lorrie Who Will Run the Frog Hospital
Olsson, Linda Astrid and Veronika
Petterson, Per Out Stealing Horses
Vida, Vendela Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Watson, Larry Montana 1948

September

Author Title
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Half Of a Yellow Sun
Balakian, Peter Black Dog Of Fate
Brooks, Geraldine People Of the Book
Ghosh, Amitav Sea Of Poppies
Goldman, William Princess Bride (30th Edition)
Hammett, Dashiell The Thin Man
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go
Kingsolver, Barbara The Prodigal Summer
Knapp, Caroline Drinking: A Love Story
Murakami, Haruki Kafka On the Shore
Shorto, Russell Island In the Center Of the World
Simpson, Mona Anywhere But Here
Smith, Ali Hotel World
Stewart, Trenton Lee Mysterious Benedict Society juv
Zusak, Marcus The Book Thief

August

Author Title
Blum, Jenna Those Who Save Us
Bohjalian, Chris The Double Bind
Brooks, Geraldine Year of Wonders
Child, Julia My Life in France
Collins, James Beginner's Greek
Lodge, David Deaf Sentence
Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead
Matalon Lagnado, Lucette The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Moehringer, J.R. The Tender Bar
Satrapi, Marjane Persépolis
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July

Author Title
Chabon, Michael The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Horan, Nancy Loving Frank
Levitt, Steven and Dunbar, Stephen Freakonomics
McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
O'Faolin, Nuala My Dream of You
Shors, John Beneath a Marble Sky
Shriver, Lionel The Post-Birthday World
Waxman, Sharon Loot
Yates, Richard Revolutionary Road

June

Author Title
Camus, Albert The Plague
Davies, Peter Ho The Welsh Girl
Díaz, Junot The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Ebershoff, David The 19th Wife
Enright, Anne The Gathering
Gardam, Jane People of Privilege Hill
Hamid, Mohsin Reluctant Fundamentalist
Jones, Edward The Known World
Korman, Gordon This Can't Be Happening at Macdonalf Hall! juv
Lockhart, E. Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks juv
McBride, James Song Yet Sung
Mortenson, Greg Three Cups of Tea
Otsuka, Julie When the Emperor Was Devine
Park, Linda Sue Archer's Quest juv
Pears, Iain The Dream of Scipio
Proulx, Annie The Shipping News
Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale
Weber, Katherine Triangle
Zusak, Marcus Book Thief

May

Author Title
Amirrezvani, Anita Blood Of Flowers
Bloom, Amy Away
Brooks, Geraldine People Of the Book
Díaz, Junot The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Domingue, Ronlyn Mercy Of Thin Air
Gruen, Sara Water For Elephants
Hicks, Robert The Widow Of the South
Horan, Nancy Loving Frank
Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns
Lahiri, Jhumpa Unaccustomed Earth
Lawson, Mary Crow Lake
Mortimer, John Rumpole Of the Bailey
Pamuk, Orhan Istanbul
Ryan, Pam Muñoz Riding Freedom juv
Shriver, Lionel The Post-Birthday World
Steinbeck, John The Pearl
Stendhal The Red and The Black (Moncrieff Translation)
Stoppard, Tom Arcadia
Thornton, Lawrence Imagining Argentina
Wroblewski, David Story Of Edgar Sawtelle
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April

Author Title
Alvarez, Julia In the Time Of the Butterflies
Bennett, Alan Uncommon Reader
Blum, Jenna Those Who Save Us
Brooks, Geraldine People Of the Book
Bryson, Bill A Walk In the Woods
Caldwell, Bo The Distant Land of My Father
Childress, Mark Crazy in Alabama
Ciment, Jill Tattoo Artist
Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime
Egan, Jennifer Keep
Furst, Alan The Spies of Warsaw
Gladwell, Malcolm Blink
Horan, Nancy Loving Frank
Korman, Gordon Swindle juv
Lee, Min Jin Free Food For Millionaires
Lowry, Lois The Giver juv
McBride, James The Color Of Water
McBride, James Song Yet Sung
Munro, Alice Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Oates, Joyce Carol We Were the Mulvaneys
O'Farrell, Maggie After You'd Gone
Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres
Smith, Zadie White Teeth
Spinelli, Jerry Wringer juv
Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath
Updike, John Rabbit Run
Wallner, Michael April In Paris
Walls, Jeanette Glass Castle

March

Author Title
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Purple Hibiscus
Amirrezvani, Anita Blood Of Flowers
Balzac, Honoré de Eugénie Grandet
Clements, Andrew No Talking juv
Curtis, Christopher Elijah Of Buxton juv
Dai, Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Doerr, Harriet Stones for Ibarra
Edwards, Kim Memory Keeper's Daughter
Franks, Lucinda My Father's Secret War
Kamp, David United States of Arugula
Kuhlman, Evan Last Invisible Box juv
Kundera, Milan Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Larson, Eric Devil In the White City
Lord, Cynthia Rules juv
Maugham, W. Somerset The Moon and Sixpence
McCullough, David John Adams
Schmidt, Gary Wednesday Wars juv
Shalev, Meir A Pigeon and a Boy
Silber, Joan The Size Of the World
Stegner, Wallace Angle Of Repose
Wiggins, Marianne Evidence Of Things Unseen
Wodicka, Tod All Shall Be Well, All Shall Be Well...

February

Author Title
Amado, Jorge Tent Of Miracles
Boyle, T. Coraghessan Tortilla Curtain
Brooks, Geraldine March
Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side Of Paradise
Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying
Giff, Patricia Eleven juv
Gordimer, Nadine July's People
Howells, William Dean Rise of Silas Lapham
Kushner, Rachel Telex From Cuba
Landvik, Lorna Angry Housewives Eating Bons Bons
Lavigne, Michael Not Me
Mason, Daniel Piano Tuner
Mirvis, Tova The Outside World
Moriarity, Laura The Center Of Everything
Patchett, Ann Run
Petterson, Per To Sibera
Powers, Richard Echo Maker
Prize Stories : The O. Henry Awards 1999
Sofer, Dalia The Septembers Of Shiraz
Vargas Llosa, Mario The War Of the End Of the World
Zusak, Markus The Book Thief

January

Author Title
Balzac, Honoré de Old Goriot
Dash, Mike Tulipomania
Duffy, Peter The Bielski Brothers
Gilchrist, Ellen Sarah Conley
Hegi, Ursula The Worst Thing I've Done
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Vegetable Miracle
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter Of Maladies
Marciano, Francesca Rules Of the Wild
Marton, Kati The Great Escape
Moehringer, J.R. Tender Bar
Olsson, Linda Astrid and Veronika
Parkhurst, Carolyn Dogs Of Babel
Penney, Stef The Tenderness Of Wolves
Seierstad, Åsne Bookseller Of Kabul
See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Tsukiyama, Gail The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Umrigar, Thrity Space Between Us
Zusak, Markus The Book Thief
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