Local Book Group Choices 2002-2004, by Month
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Choices
Updated January 12, 2005
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2004 Choices, by month
December, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Year of Wonders |
| Cather, Willa |
My Antonia |
| Chandler, Raymond |
The Big Sleep |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Eire, Carlos M.N. |
Waiting for Snow in Havana |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
| Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
| Grant, Ulysses S. |
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–time |
| Hendra, Tony |
Father Joe |
| Hijuelos, Oscar |
Mr. Ives' Christmas |
| Horn, Dara |
In the Image |
| Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Jenny, Zoe |
The Pollen Room |
| Kelley, Douglas |
The Captain's Wife |
| Kowalski, William |
Eddie's Bastard |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Melville, Herman |
Typee |
November, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Ali, Monica |
Brick Lane |
| Burroughs, Augusten |
Running with Scissors |
| Coelho, Paulo |
The Alchemist |
| Conrad, Joseph |
Heart of Darkness |
| Eire, Carlos M. N. |
Waiting For Snow In Havana |
| Greene, Graham |
The Honorary Consul |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time |
| Jones, Edward P. |
The Known World |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Secret Life of Bees |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Maalouf, Amin |
The Rock of Tanios |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| Otsuka, Julie |
When the Emperor Was Divine |
| Parkhurst, Carolyn |
The Dogs of Babel |
| Patchett, Ann |
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship |
| Russo, Richard |
The Whore's Child and Other Stories |
| Salzman, Mark |
The Laughing Sutra |
| Smith, Martin Cruz |
December 6 |
| Tyler, Anne |
The Amateur Marriage |
October, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Ali, Monica |
Brick Lane |
| Brombert, Victor |
Trains of Thought |
| Chevalier, Tracy |
Falling Angels |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee |
Sister of My Heart |
| Epstein, Daniel Mark |
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
The Virgin Suicides |
| Grealy, Lucy |
Autobiography of a Face |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Maugham, W. Somerset |
Christmas Holiday |
| McCall Smith, Alexander |
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
Middle Age: a Romance |
| Roth, Philip |
The Ghost Writer |
| Sacks, Oliver |
An Anthropologist on Mars |
| Seiffert, Rachel |
The Dark Room |
| Siegel, James |
Derailed |
| Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
| Steinbach, Alice |
Without Reservations |
| Swift, Graham |
Waterland |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace |
Vanity Fair |
| Vanderbes, Jennifer |
Easter Island |
| Wharton, Edith |
Collected Stories |
September, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Anson, Robert Sam |
Best Intentions |
| Ashton-Warner, Sylvia |
Spinster |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Year of Wonders |
| Cisneros, Sandra |
Caramelo |
| Eire, Carlos |
Waiting for Snow in Havana |
| Gornick, Vivian |
Fierce Attachments |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time |
| Hesse, Hermann |
Siddhartha |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Seabiscuit |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Bean Trees |
| Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Mason, Daniel |
The Piano Tuner |
| Niffenegger, Audrey |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Simpson, Joe |
Touching the Void |
| Yezierska, Anzia |
Bread Givers |
August, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
Novels and Stories, 1920-22 |
| Greene, Graham |
Our Man in Havana |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Lehane, Dennis |
Shutter Island |
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
Lolita |
| Quindlen, Anna |
Blessings |
July, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Austen, Jane |
Mansfield Park |
| Birmingham, Stephen |
The Rothman Scandal |
| Botsford, Gregory |
A Life of Privilege, Mostly |
| Burroughs, Augusten |
Running With Scissors |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Life and Times of Michael K. |
| Grøndahl, Jens Christian |
Silence in October |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
Kim |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Randall, Alice |
The Wind Done Gone |
| Roy, Arundhati |
The God of Small Things |
| Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina |
June, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Atwood, Margaret |
The Robber Bride |
| Bellow, Saul |
Herzog |
| Chesterton, G.K. |
St. Francis of Assisi |
| Chesterton, G.K. |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Disgrace |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara |
Nickel and Dimed |
| Grealy, Lucy |
Autobiography of a Face |
| Hijuelos, Oscar |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| Jin, Ha |
The Crazed |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Larson, Erik |
Devil in the White City |
| McCullers, Carson |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
Lolita |
| Naipaul, V.S. |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
| Pogrebin, Letty Cottin |
Three Daughters |
| Simpson, Joe |
Touching the Void |
| Trillin, Calvin |
Travels with Alice |
| Warren, Robert Penn |
All the King's Men |
May, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Disgrace |
| Di Robilant, Andrea |
A Venetian Affair |
| Eggers, Dave |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
| Faulks, Sebastian |
Birdsong |
| Flagg, Fannie |
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! |
| Fuller, Alexandra |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight |
| Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
| Joyce, James |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Koul, Sudha |
Tiger Ladies |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Lebrecht, Norman |
The Song of Names |
| Lee, Chang-Rae |
A Gesture Life |
| Lurie, Alison |
Foreign Affairs |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| O'Hara, John |
Appointment in Samarra |
| Patchett, Ann |
The Patron Saint of Liars |
| Phillips, Arthur |
Prague |
| Silva, Daniel |
The English Assassin |
| Steinfels, Peter |
A People Adrift |
| Wolff, Tobias |
This Boy's Life |
| Yehoshua, Abraham |
The Liberated Bride |
April, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Alvarez, Julia |
In the Name of Salome |
| Anderson, Walter |
Meant To Be |
| Appelfeld, Aharon |
The Conversion |
| Bellow, Saul |
Mr. Sammler's Planet |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Elizabeth Costello |
| Delillo, Don |
The Names |
| Eliot, George |
The Mill on the Floss |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
The Virgin Suicides |
| Gleeson, Janet |
The Arcanum |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
Kim |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| McCall Smith, Alexander |
The #1 Ladies Detective Agency |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| McGhee, Alison |
Shadow Baby |
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
Lolita |
| O'Connor, Flannery |
Wise Blood |
| Packer, Ann |
The Dive from Clausen's Pier |
| Salinger, J.D. |
Franny and Zooey |
| Volk, Patricia |
Stuffed |
| Waters, Mary Yukari |
The Laws of Evening |
| Wilder, Thornton |
Our Town |
March, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Albright, Madeleine |
Madam Secretary |
| Berg, Elizabeth |
True to Form |
| Binchy, Maeve |
Circle of Friends |
| Burroughs, Augusten |
Running with Scissors |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
| Faulkner, William |
As I Lay Dying |
| Greeley, Andrew |
The Great Mysteries |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
| Hardy, Thomas |
Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Herriot, James |
The Lord God Made Them All |
| Hijuelos, Oscar |
A Simple Habana Melody |
| Johnson, Charles |
Middle Passage |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Lessing, Doris |
The Golden Notebook |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Nuland, Sherwin |
Lost in America |
| O'Faolain, Nuala |
Are You Somebody |
| Perrotta, Tom |
The Wishbones |
| Picoult, Jodi |
Plain Truth |
| Shields, Carol |
Unless |
| Wharton, Edith |
A Mother's Recompense |
February, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Armstrong, Lance |
It's Not About the Bike |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Year of Wonders |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
The Idiot |
| Essex, Karen |
Kleopatra |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope |
The Bookshop |
| Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
| Frey, James |
A Million Little Pieces |
| Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
| Hegi, Ursula |
Sacred Time |
| Jiles, Paulette |
Enemy Woman |
| Martin, Steve |
The Pleasure of my Company |
| Martin, Steve |
Shopgirl |
| McEwan, Ian |
Amsterdam |
| Nuland, Sherwin |
Lost in America |
| Pears, Iain |
The Dream of Scipio |
| Pogrebin, Letty Cottin |
Three Daughters |
| Pollan, Michael |
The Botany of Desire |
| Quindlen, Anna |
Blessings |
| Santiago, Esmeralda |
When I was Puerto Rican |
| Sebald, W.G. |
Austerlitz |
| Wharton, Edith |
The House of Mirth |
January, 2004
| Author |
Title |
| Barker, Pat |
Regeneration |
| Boll, Heinrich |
Billiards at Half-past Nine |
| Bryson, Bill |
I'm a Stranger Here Myself |
| Chaon, Dan |
Among the Missing |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Drabble, Margaret |
The Seven Sisters |
| Dreiser, Theodore |
Sister Carrie |
| Dubus, Andre |
House of Sand and Fog |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
| Greene, Graham |
The Heart of the Matter |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time |
| Hammill, Pete |
Snow in August |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
The Sun Also Rises |
| Kushner, Lawrence |
Honey From the Rock |
| Lurie, Alison |
Foreign Affairs |
| Mason, Daniel |
The Piano Tuner |
| Mott, Daniel (trans.) |
The Essential Kabbalah |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Mukherjee, Bharati |
Desirable Daughters |
| Nafisi, Azar |
Reading Lolita in Tehran |
| Pagels, Elaine |
The Gnostic Gospels |
| Tan, Amy |
The Bonesetter's Daughter |
| Walker, Rebecca |
Black, White & Jewish |
| Weisgall, Deborah |
A Joyful Noise |
2003 Choices, by month
December, 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Bloom, Stephen |
Postville |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Nine Parts of Desire |
| Bryson, Bill |
A Walk in the Woods |
| Carroll, James |
Toward a New Catholic Church |
| Chabon, Michael |
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh |
| Courtenay, Bryce |
The Power of One |
| Cross, Donna Woolfolk |
Pope Joan: a novel |
| Ford, Ford Madox |
The Good soldier |
| Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
When We Were Orphans |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Lamott, Anne |
Blue Shoe |
| Landvik, Lorna |
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| McEwan, Ian |
Enduring Love |
| Nuland, Sherwin |
Lost in America |
| O'Carroll, Brendan |
The Mammy |
| Orwell, George |
Homage to Catalonia |
| Twain, Mark |
Innocents Abroad |
November, 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Nine Parts of Desire |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Disgrace |
| Cormier, Robert |
8 Plus 1: Stories |
| Cunningham, Michael |
The Hours |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Everything is Illuminated |
| Haslett, Adam |
You Are Not A Stranger Here |
| Holme, Timothy |
Vile Florentines |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| Mason, Daniel |
The Piano Tuner |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| Minot, Susan |
Evening |
| O'Brien, Flann |
The Poor Mouth |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Schwarz, Christina |
Drwoning Ruth |
| Shteyngart, Gary |
The Russian Debutante's Handbook |
| Suberman, Stella |
The Jew Store |
| Trollope, Anthony |
Barchester Towers |
| Trollope, Anthony |
The Warden |
| Tsukiyama, Gail |
Dreaming Water |
| Tsukiyama, Gail |
Night of Many Dreams |
| Wharton, Edith |
House of Mirth |
October, 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Bryson, Bill |
A Walk in the Woods |
| Carter, Stephen L. |
The Emperor of Ocean Park |
| Crile, George |
Charlie Wilson's War |
| Dillard, Annie |
The Living |
| Fuller, Alexandra |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight |
| Goodman, Allegra |
Kaaterskill Falls |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
| Hustvedt, Siri |
What I Loved |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Secret Life of Bees |
| Mukherjee, Bharati |
Desirable Daughters |
| Murdoch, Iris |
The Red and the Green |
| Roth, Philip |
American Pastoral |
| Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Everything is Illuminated |
| Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Angle of Repose |
| Suberman, Stella |
The Jew Store |
| Voltaire |
Candide |
September, 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Bayley, John |
Elegy for Iris |
| Blunt, Judy |
Breaking Clean |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
If the River was Whiskey |
| Chabon, Michael |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Disgrace |
| Dai, Sinjie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
| Kaplan, Hester |
The Edge of Marriage |
| Kawabata, Yasunari |
Sound of the Mountain |
| Kertesz, Imre |
Fateless |
| Lee, Chang-Rae |
Native Speaker |
| Quindlen, Anna |
Blessings |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Angle of Repose |
| Tsukiyama, Gail |
The Samurai's Garden |
| Walbert, Kate |
The Gardens of Kyoto |
August, 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Adams, Henry |
The Education of Henry Adams |
| Brookner, Anita |
Altered States |
| Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockinbird |
| Shields, Carol |
Unless |
July, 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Harris, Joanne |
Five Quarters of the Orange |
| Waters, Mary Yukari |
The Laws of Evening: Stories |
June, 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Cahill, Thomas |
The Gifts of the Jews |
| Cisneros, Sandra |
Caramelo, or Puro Cuento |
| Diamant, Anita |
Good Harbor |
| Egan, Jennifer |
Look at Me |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
| Faber, Michael |
The Crimson Petal and the White |
| Garcia, Cristina |
Dreaming in Cuban |
| Lawson, Mary |
Crow Lake |
| Lee, Chang-Rae |
A Gesture Life |
| Lewis, Michael |
The New New Thing |
| McCall Smith, R.A. |
The #1 Ladies Detective Agency |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Patchett, Ann |
The Magician's Assistant |
| Quindlen, Anna |
Blessings |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Trollope, Anthony |
An Eye for an Eye |
| Wharton, Edith |
The Custom of the Country |
May 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Anderson, Joan |
A Year by the Sea |
| Feiler, Bruce |
Walking the Bible |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Franklin, Benjamin |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
Secret Life of Bees |
| Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Maxwell, William |
So long, See you Tomorrow |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Pears, Iain |
The Dream of Scipio |
| Robbins, David |
Scorched Earth |
| Sebald, Winfired Georg |
Austerlitz |
| Seth, Vikram |
An Equal Music |
| Shaara, Michael |
The Killer Angels |
| Vreeland, Susan |
The Passion of Artemisia |
April 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Chabon, Michael |
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
| Chevalier, Tracy |
Girl With a Pearl Earring |
| Enger, Leif |
Peace Like a River |
| Hahn-Beer, Edith |
The Nazi Officer's Wife |
| Irving, John |
A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Secret Life of Bees |
| King, Laurie |
Folly |
| Kundera, Milan |
Identity |
| Lewis, Bernard |
What Went Wrong |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| McDermott, Alice |
Charming Billy |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Oz, Amos |
The Same Sea |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Schlink, Bernhard |
The Reader |
| Winchester, Simon |
The Map That Changed the World |
March 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Alhadeff, Gini |
The Sun At Midday |
| Atwood, Margaret |
The Blind Assassin |
| Borges, Jorge Luis |
Labyrinths:Selected Stories |
| Carter, Stephen L. |
The Emperor of Ocean Park |
| Chang, Pang Mei Natasha |
Bound Feet and Western Dress |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Davis, Sampson |
The Pact |
| Donoghue, Emma |
Slammerkin |
| Goldberg, Myla |
Bee Season |
| Grealy, Lucy |
Autobiography of a Face |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Seabiscuit |
| James, Henry |
The Portrait of a Lady |
| Kafka, Franz |
The Castle |
| McCullough, David |
John Adams |
| McDermott, Alice |
Child of My Heart |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Packer, Ann |
The Dive From Clausen's Pier |
| Roiphe, Ann |
Lovingkindness |
| Roth, Philip |
The Human Stain |
| Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
| Udall, Brady |
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint |
| Williams, Niall |
Four Letters of Love |
February 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Nine Parts of Desire |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Gogol, Nicholai |
Dead Souls |
| Goodman, Allegra |
Kaaterskill Falls |
| Gordimer, Nadine |
Pickup |
| Gur, Batya |
Murder Duet |
| Japrisot, Sebastian |
A Very Long Engagement |
| Kennedy, William |
Roscoe |
| Lamott, Anne |
Rosie |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| O'Faolain, Nuala |
My Dreams of You |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Ragen, Naomi |
The Sacrifice of Tamar |
| Sackville-West, Victoria |
All Passion Spent |
| Tyler, Anne |
Back When We Were Grownups |
January 2003
| Author |
Title |
| Auchincloss, Louis |
The Book Class |
| Barker, Pat |
Regeneration |
| Berger, Joseph |
Displaced Persons |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Nine Parts of Desire |
| Carter, Stephen |
The Emperor of Ocean Park |
| Cunningham, Michael |
The Hours |
| Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
| Franzen, Jonathan |
The Corrections |
| Friedman, Samuel |
Jew vs. Jew |
| Gross, John J. |
A Double Thread |
| Herrera, Hayden |
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo |
| Hogan, Susan |
Solar Storms |
| Mailer, Norman |
Gospel According to the Son |
| McCullough, David |
John Adams |
| McEwan, Ian |
Innocent |
| Min, Anchee |
Red Azalea |
| O'Brien, Tim |
In the Lake of the Woods |
| Packer, Ann |
The Dive From Clausen's Pier |
| Roth, Philip |
The Human Stain |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Salzman, Mark |
Lying Awake |
| Tsukiyama, Gail |
The Samurai's Garden |
| Wiesenthal, Simon |
The Sunflower |
2002 Choices, by month
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December 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Ansary, Tamin |
West of Kabul, East of New York |
| Atwood, Margaret |
The Blind Assassin |
| Beerbahm, Max |
Zuleika Dobson |
| Bellow, Saul |
Collected Stories 2001 |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Nine Parts of Desire |
| Dubus, Andre |
House of Sand and Fog |
| Ford, Richard |
Sportswriter |
| Haruf, Kent |
Plainsong |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
When We Were Orphans |
| Maguire, Gregory |
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| O'Brien, Tim |
The Things They Carried |
| O'Faolain, Nuala |
My Dream of You |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Waugh, Evelyn |
The Loved One |
November 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
World's End |
| Carr, Caleb |
The Angel of Darkness |
| Dickens, Charles |
Great Expectations |
| Franzen, Jonathan |
The Corrections |
| Goldsmith, Martin |
The Inextinguishable Symphony |
| Hellenga, Robert |
Sixteen Pleasures |
| Henley, Patricia |
Hummingbird House |
| Hull, Jonathan |
Losing Julia |
| Patchett, Anne |
Bel Canto |
| Rushdie, Salman |
Shame |
| Sebald, Alice |
The Lovely Bones |
| Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Tsukiyama, Gail |
The Samurai's Garden |
October 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Cather, Willa |
Death Comes For the Archbishop |
| Chabon, Michael |
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
| Dickens, Charles |
Martin Chuzzlewit |
| Graham, Katharine |
Personal History |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Small Wonder |
| Lee, Chang-rae |
A Gesture Life |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| McEwan, Ian |
Enduring Love |
| Miller, Sue |
While I Was Gone |
| Morton, Brian |
Starting Out In The Evening |
| Nattel, Lilian |
The River Midnight |
| Nouwen, Henri |
The Return of the Prodigal Son |
| O'Toole, John Kennedy |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Packer, Ann |
The Dive From Clausen's Pier |
| Rich, Frank |
Ghost Light |
| Suri, Manil |
The Death of Vishnu |
| Tyler, Anne |
Back When We Were Grownups |
September 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Aciman, Andre |
Out of Egypt |
| Auster, Paul |
Moon Palace |
| Calisher, Hortense |
Sunday Jews |
| Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Heilbrun, Carolyn |
The Last Gift of Time |
| Mann, Thomas |
Buddenbrooks |
| McLaughlin, Emma |
The Nanny Diaries |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| O'Faolain, Nuala |
My Dream of You |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Pritchett, V.S., ed. |
Oxford Book of Short Stories |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Saramago, Jose |
Blindness |
| Schappell, Elissa |
Use Me |
| Trollope, Joanna |
Marrying the Mistress |
| Undset, Sigrid |
Kristin Lavransdatter |
| Winchester, Simon |
The Professor and the Madman |
August 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Frayn, Michael |
Headlong |
| Gaines, Ernest J. |
A Lesson Before Dying |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth |
Wives and Daughters |
| Goldberg, Myla |
Bee Season |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne |
The Country of the Pointed Firs |
| Marai, Sandor |
Embers |
| McEwan , Ian |
Amsterdam |
| Philbrick, Nat |
In The Heart Of The Sea |
July 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Auster, Paul |
Moon Palace |
| Craig, Charmaine |
The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy |
| Hegi, Ursula |
Stones From the River |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
Secret Life of Bees |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
| Naipaul, V. S. |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
| Orner, Pete |
Esther Stories |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
My Name Is Red |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Picoult, Jodi |
Pact |
| Reichl, Ruth |
Comfort Me With Apples |
| Trollope, Anthony |
The Warden |
June 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Bourdain, Anthony |
Kitchen Confidential |
| Bryson, Bill |
A Walk In The Woods |
| Colette |
Retreat From Love |
| Cooley, Martha |
The Archivist |
| Crafts, Hannah |
The Bondwoman's Narrative |
| Ford, Richard |
The Sportswriter |
| Haien, Jeannette |
All Of It |
| Hajdu, David |
Positively 4th Street |
| Huston, Nancy |
The Mark of the Angel |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Prodigal Summer |
| Kung, Hans |
The Catholic Church: A Short History |
| Maguire, Gregory |
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister |
| Miller, Sue |
While I Was Gone |
| Pollan, Michael |
The Botany of Desire |
| Pym, Barbara |
Some Tame Gazelle |
| Sebald, Winifred Georg |
Austerlitz |
| Sebald, Winifred Georg |
Emigrants |
| Shields, Carol |
Swann |
| Tyler, Ann |
Back When We Were Grownups |
| Updike, John |
Gertrude and Claudius |
May 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Suri, Manil |
The Death of Vishnu |
| Huddle, David |
La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl |
| Baxter, Charles |
The Feast of Love |
| Bloom, Stephen G. |
Postville |
| Frazen, Jonathan |
The Corrections |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
We Were the Mulvaneys |
| Naipaul, V.S. |
A Bend in the River |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
The Unconsoled |
| O'Connor, Sandra Day |
Lazy B |
| DeBernieres, Louis |
Corelli's Mandolin |
| Twain, Mark |
The Innocents Abroad |
| Hays, David |
Today I Am a Boy |
| Goldberg, Myra |
Bee Season |
| Melville, Herman |
Billy Budd |
| Bunting, Josiah |
All Loves Excelling |
| Neuhaus, Richard |
As I Lay Dying |
| Dubus, Andre |
House of Sand and Fog |
| Fox, Paula |
Desperate Characters |
| Reichl, Ruth |
Tender at the Bone |
April 2002
| Author |
Title |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Crossing to Safety |
| Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited |
| Welty, Eudora |
The Optimist's Daughter |
| Pushkin, Aleksandr |
Complete Prose Tales of A. S. Pushkin |
| Liss, David |
A Conspiracy of Paper |
| Roth, Philip |
The Human Stain |
| Karr, Mary |
The Liar's Club |
| Winchester, Simon |
The Professor and the Madman |
| DelBanco, Nicholas |
What Remains |
| Dubus, Andre |
House of Sand and Fog |
| Howells, William Dean |
The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| Hershon, Joanna |
Swimming |
| Walker, Rebecca |
Black, White and Jewish |
| Fuller, Alexander |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs |
| Zukav, Gary |
The Seat of the Soul |