Local Book Group Choices 2002-2018, by Month
Updated February 2019
Children’s titles have a juv after the title and Young Adult has a YA . Non-fiction titles are in Bold.
2018 Choices, by month
2017 Choices, by month
2016 Choices, by month
2015 Choices, by month
2014 Choices, by month
December
| Author |
Title |
| Benjamin, Melanie |
Aviator’s Wife |
| Cooper, James Fenimore |
The Last of the Mohicans |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Gogol, Nicolai |
Dead Souls |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Joyce, Rachel |
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
| Kerman, Piper |
Orange is the New Black |
| McEwan, Ian |
Enduring Love |
| Moyes, Jojo |
Me Before You |
| Ozeki, Ruth |
A Tale for the Time Being |
| St. Aubyn, Edward |
The Patrick Melrose Novels |
| Smith, Patti |
Just Kids |
| Strayed, Cheryl |
Wild |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
The Burgess Boys |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario |
Death in the Andes |
| Zevin, Gabrielle |
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry |
November
| Author |
Title |
| Benioff, David |
City of Thieves |
| Bryson, Bill |
In a Sunburned Country |
| Franks, Lucinda |
My Father’s Secret War |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
The Bully Pulpit |
| Gordon, Mary |
The Liar’s Wife |
| Gorokhova, Elena |
A Mountain of Crumbs |
| Iles, Francis |
Before the Fact |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Invention of Wings |
| Koch, Herman |
The Dinner |
| Krauss, Nicole |
The History of Love |
| Messud, Claire |
The Woman Upstairs |
| Morris, Seymour |
Supreme Commander: MacArthur’s Triumph in Japan |
| Paine, Thomas |
Common Sense |
| Patchett, Ann |
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Crossing to Safety |
| Walls, Jeanette |
The Silver Star |
| Yousafzai, Malala |
I am Malala |
| Zevin, Gabrielle |
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry |
October
| Author |
Title |
| Atkinson, Kate |
Life After Life |
| Chayil, Eishes |
Hush YA |
| Chaiaverini, Jennifer |
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker |
| Desai, Kiran |
The Inheritance of Loss |
| Eliot, George |
Middlemarch |
| Erdrich, Louise |
The Plague of Doves |
| Forsyth, Frederick |
Icon |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth |
The Signature of All Things |
| Harris, Robert |
An Officer and a Spy |
| Jones, James |
From Here to Eternity |
| Klein, Christina Baker |
Orphan Train |
| Joyce, Rachel |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
| McCullers, Carson |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| McEwan, Ian |
Saturday |
| Moore, Liz |
Heft |
| Revoyr, Nina |
Wingshooters |
| Semple, Maria |
Where’s You Go, Bernadette? |
| Tan, Amy |
The Valley of Amazement |
| Yousafzai, Malala |
I Am Malala |
September
| Author |
Title |
| Brontë, Anne |
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall |
| Cheever, Susan |
E.E. Cummings: a Life |
| De Waal, Edmund |
Hare With Amber Eyes |
| Hardy, Thomas |
Jude the Obscure |
| Harrison, Jim |
The River Swimmer |
| Ivey, Eowyn |
The Snow Child |
| Massie, Robert K. |
Catherine the Great |
| McCullough, David |
The Greater Journey |
| Moyes, Jojo |
Me Before You |
| Roth, Philip |
Nemesis |
| Schwartz, Lynne Sharon |
Two-part Inventions |
| Straub, Emma |
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures |
| Thurber, James |
13 Clocks |
| West, Morris |
The Shoes Of the Fisherman |
| Wolitzer, Meg |
The Interestings |
August
| Author |
Title |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
| Lethem, Jonathan |
Dissident Gardens |
| Messud, Claire |
The Woman Upstairs |
| Moore, Edward Kelsey |
Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat |
| Moriarty, Liane |
Husband’s Secret |
| Worth, Jennifer |
Call the Midwife |
July
| Author |
Title |
| Adiche, Chimamanda Ngozi |
Americanah |
| Dubus, Andre |
Dirty Love |
| Dubus, Andre |
Townie |
| Gladstone, Brooke |
The Influencing Machine |
| Henry, O. |
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry |
| Hoffman, Alice |
The Museum of Extraordinary Things |
| Ivey, Eowyn |
The Snow Child |
| Jonasson, Jonas |
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared |
| Patchett, Ann |
What Now? |
| Truong, Monique T.D. |
Bitter In the Mouth |
June
| Author |
Title |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi |
Half a Yellow Sun |
| Benaron, Naomi |
Running the Rift |
| Gardam, Jane |
Old Filth |
| Harding, Paul |
Tinkers |
| Heinrich, Bernd |
Summer World |
| Heinrich, Bernd |
Winter World |
| Li, Yiyun |
Kinder Than Solitude |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| McCann, Colum |
Transatlantic |
| McDermott, Alice |
After This |
| Messud, Claire |
The Woman Upstairs |
| Moyes, Jojo |
Me Before You |
| Palacio, R.J. |
Wonder juv |
| Patchett, Ann |
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage |
| Shalev, Meir |
A Pigeon and a Boy |
| Strayed, Cheryl |
Wild |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
The Burgess Boys |
May
| Author |
Title |
| Atkinson, Kate |
Case Histories |
| Atkinson, Kate |
Life After Life |
| Danticat, Edwidge |
Claire Of the Sea Light |
| Dubas, Andre |
Dirty Love |
| Egan, Jennifer |
A Visit From the Goon Squad |
| Ford, Richard |
Independence Day |
| Forna, Aminatta |
Hired Man |
| Grass, Gunter |
The Tin Drum |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Johnson, Adam |
Orphan Master’s Son |
| Kostick, Conor |
Epic YA |
| Kurlansky, Mark |
Salt: a World History |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Lowland |
| Landay, William |
Defending Jacob |
| Lee, Chang-rae |
Native Speaker |
| Mahfuz, Najib |
Miramar |
| McNeal, Tom |
To Be Sung Underwater |
| Odets, Clifford |
The Country Girl |
| Ozeki, Ruth |
A Tale For the Time Being |
| Picoult, Jodi |
The Storyteller |
| Shalev, Meir |
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner |
| Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
April
| Author |
Title |
| Erens, Pamela |
The Virgins |
| Faulkner, William |
As I Lay Dying |
| Foster, Thomas C. |
How to Read Literature Like a Professor |
| Harrison, A. S. A. |
The Silent Wife |
| Hazzard, Shirley |
The Transit de Venus |
| hoffman, Alice |
The Dovekeepers |
| Kincaid, S. J. |
Insignia YA |
| Koestler, Arthur |
Darkness at Noon |
| Lepore, Jill |
Book of Ages |
| Lively, Penelope |
How It All Began |
| Lowry, Lois |
The Giver juv |
| Maitland, Leslie |
Crossing the Borders of Time |
| Márai, Sándor |
Embers |
| Massie, Robert |
Catherine the Great |
| McCann, Colum |
This Side of Brightness |
| McDermott, Alice |
Someone |
| Moss, Barbara R. |
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Rattigan, Terence |
Browning Version |
| Sacks, Oliver |
An Anthropologist On Mars |
| Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| Stedman, M. L. |
The Light Between Oceans |
| Tyler, Anne |
The Beginner’s Goodbye |
March
| Author |
Title |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi |
Americanah |
| Bacon, Charlotte |
There is Room For You |
| Baldacci, David |
The Christmas Train |
| Cleave, Chris |
Gold |
| De Waal, Edmund |
The Hare With Amber Eyes |
| Dick, Philip K. |
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep |
| Du Maurier, Daphne |
My Cousin Rachel |
| Erdrich, Louise |
The Round House |
| Ford, Richard |
Canada |
| Houuellebecq, Michel |
The Elementary Particles |
| Kerman, Piper |
Orange is the New Black |
| Mcdermott, Alice |
Someone |
| Ozeki, Ruth L. |
A Tale For the Time Being |
| Quindlen, Anna |
Lots Of Candles. Plenty Of Cake |
| Simsion, Graeme |
The Rosie Project |
| Stedman, M. L. |
The Light Between the Oceans |
| Tomkins, Calvin |
Living Well is the Best Revenge |
February
| Author |
Title |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Moveable Feast |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Unbroken |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Howley, Hugh |
Wool |
| Johnson, Adam |
The Orphan Masters’ Son |
| Lamb, Wally |
I Know This Much is True |
| Lively, Penelope |
How It All Began |
| McLain, Paula |
The Paris Wife |
| Murakami, Haruki |
A Wild Sheep Chase |
| Netzer, Lydia |
Shine Shine Shine |
| Oz, Amos |
Scenes From Village Life |
| Rachman, Tom |
Imperfectionists |
| Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| Stedman, M. L. |
The Light Between Oceans |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
The Burgess Boys |
| Tartt, Donna |
The Secret History |
| Walter, Jess |
Beautiful Ruins |
January
| Author |
Title |
| Barnes, Julian |
Sense Of an Ending |
| Bulawayo, NoViolet |
We Need New Names |
| Collins, Wilkie |
Moonstone |
| Ford, Richard |
Canada |
| Haddon, Mark |
Red House |
| Johnson, Adam |
The Orphan Master’s Son |
| Karr, Mary |
The Liar’s Club |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Flight Behavior |
| Maxwell, William |
So Long, See You Tomorrow |
| Munro, Alice |
Dear Life |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter |
Four Spirits |
| Némirovsky, Irène |
Fire In the Blood |
| Olson, Lynne |
Citizens Of London |
| Saunders, George |
Tenth Of December |
| Sayers, Dorothy |
The Nine Tailors |
| Semple, Maria |
Where’d You Go Bernadette |
| Sobel, Dava |
Longitude |
| Sotomayor, Sonia |
My Beloved World |
| Stedman, M. L. |
The Light Between Oceans |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
The Burgess Boys |
| Wouk, Herman |
The Caine Mutiny |
2013 Choices, by month
December
| Author |
Title |
| Bergreen, Laurence |
Over the Edge Of the World |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Caleb’s Crossing |
| Butler, Robert Olen |
Good Scent From a Strange Mountain |
| Coplin, Amanda |
Orchardist |
| Faulks, Sebastian |
Bridsong |
| Flynn, Gillian |
Gone Girl |
| Joyce, Rachel |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry |
| O’Connor, Anne Marie |
Lady In Gold |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Russo, Richard |
Elsewhere |
| Sandberg, Sheryl |
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead |
| Sándor, Márai |
Embers |
| Semple, Maria |
Where’d You Go, Bernadette |
| Shreve, Anita |
The Last Time They Met |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
The Burgess Boys |
| Sullivan, John Jeremiah |
Pulphead |
| West, Kasie |
Pivot Point YA |
| Zusak, Marcus |
The Book Thief YA |
November
| Author |
Title |
| Aw, Tash |
Five-star Billionaire |
| Baker, Ellen |
Keeping the House |
| Benjamin, Melanie |
Aviator’s Wife |
| Brunt, Carol Rifka |
Tell the Wolves I’m Home |
| Conklin, Tara |
The House Girl |
| DeWaal, Edmund |
The Hare With Amber Eyes |
| Forester. Victoria |
The Girl Who Could Fly juv |
| Gutman, Dan |
Mrs. Roopy is Loopy! juv |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Unbroken |
| Moyes, jojo |
Me Before You |
| O’Brien, Edna |
Country Girl |
| O’Brien, Tim |
In the Lake Of the Woods |
| Orwell, George |
1984 |
| Picoult, Jodi |
Mercy |
| Plath, Sylvia |
The Bell Jar |
| Scroggins, Deborah |
Emma’s War |
| Silber, Joan |
Fools |
| Stedman, M.L. |
The Light Between the Oceans |
| Tintera, Amy |
Reboot YA |
October
| Author |
Title |
| Ahmed, Qanta |
In the Land Of Invisible Women |
| Beston, Henry |
Outermost House |
| Christie, Agatha |
The Witness For the Prosecution |
| De Waal, Edmund |
The Hare With the Amber Eyes |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
The Language of Flowers |
| DuMauier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
| Egan, Jennifer |
A Visit From the Goon Squad |
| Goldblatt, Mark |
Twerp juv |
| Gutman, Dan |
Mr. Klutz is Nuts juv |
| Larson, Erik |
In the Garden of Beasts |
| Levy, Deborah |
Swimming Home |
| McPhee, John |
Looking for Help |
| O’Dell, Tami |
Fragile Beasts |
| Rowley, Hazel |
Franklin and Eleanor |
| Schroff, Laura |
Invisible Thread |
| See, Lisa |
Dreams of Joy |
| Silver, Marisa |
Mary Coin |
| Stedman, M.L. |
The Light Between the Oceans |
| Towles, Amor |
Rules of Civility |
| Trevor, William |
Love and Summer |
| Wallace, David Foster |
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again>/strong> |
| Yancy, Rick |
The 5th Wave YA |
September
| Author |
Title |
| Bryson, Bill |
At Home |
| Diaz, Junot |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| DiCamillo, Kate |
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane juv |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
Language of Flowers |
| Freudenberger, Nell |
The Newlyweds |
| Gutman, Dan |
Miss Daisy is Crazy juv |
| Hawley, Noah |
The Good Father |
| Highsmith, Patricia |
The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| Johnson, Adam |
The Orphan Master’s Son |
| Johnson, Steven |
Ghost Map |
| Khadra, Yasmina |
The Attack |
| Lu, Marie |
Legend YA |
| MacLachlan, Patricia |
Waiting for the Magic juv |
| Mantel, Hilary |
Wolf Hall |
| Müller, Herta |
The Land of Green Plums |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter |
Ahab’s Wife, or, The Star-gazer: a novel |
| Obreht, Téa |
Tiger’s Wife |
| Paulsen, Gary |
Notes From the Dog juv |
| Sackville, Amy |
Still Point |
| Sotomayor, Sonia |
My Beloved World |
| Steinbeck, John |
East of Eden |
| Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi |
Gang Leader For a Day |
| Wilkerson, Isabel |
The Warmth of Other Suns |
| Wright, Lawrence |
Going Clear |
| Zevin, Dan |
Dan Gets a Minivan |
August
| Author |
Title |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
Talk Talk |
| Frost, Mark |
The Palasin Prophecy YA |
| Johnson, Adam |
Orphan Master’s Son |
| Jonasson, Jonas |
The 100-year-old Man Who Climed Out of the Window and Disappeared |
| Kurlansky, Mark |
Cod |
| Mantel, Hilary |
Wolf Hall |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| Philbrick, W.R. |
Freak the Mighty juv |
| Sobel, Dava |
Galileo’s Daughter |
| Walter, Jess |
Beautiful Ruins |
July
| Author |
Title |
| Bracken, Alexandra |
The Darkest Minds YA |
| Cotterill, Colin |
Coroner’s Lunch |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
Language of Flowers |
| Dillard, Annie |
The Maytrees |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
| Harris, Robert |
Pompeii |
| Hoffman, Alice |
The Dovekeepers |
| Koch, Herman |
The Dinner |
| Selzer, Richard |
Mortal Leesons: Notes on the Art of Surgery |
| Towles, Amor |
Rules of Civility |
June
| Author |
Title |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
People Of the Book |
| Chiaverini, Jennifer |
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker |
| Clare, Cassandra |
City Of Bones YA |
| Ciezadlo, Annia |
Day Of Honey |
| Du Maurier, Daphne |
Frenchman’s Creek |
| Du Maurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
| Du Maurier, Daphne |
The Scapegoat |
| Fountain, Ben |
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk |
| Greenway, Alice |
White Ghost Girls |
| Haruf, Kent |
Plainsong |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Unbroken |
| Howe, Be Ryer |
My Korean Deli |
| Joyce, James |
A Portrait Of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Karr, Mary |
The Liars’ Club |
| Kazin, Alfred |
A Walker In the City |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Secret Life Of Bees |
| Klein, Alexander |
The Counterfeit Traitor |
| Levitt, Steven D. |
Freakonomics |
| Messud, Claire |
The Emperor’s Children |
| Munro, Alice |
Dear Life: Stories |
| Roth, Philip |
American Pastoral |
| Solomon, Andrew |
Far From the Tree |
| Stowe, Harriet Beacher |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Walter, Jess |
The Financial Lives Of Poets |
May
| Author |
Title |
| Bahari, Maziar |
Then They Came For Me |
| Barnes, Julian |
The Sense Of an Ending |
| Binchy, Maeve |
Minding Frankie |
| Chbosky, Stephen |
The Perks Of Being a Wallflower YA |
| Connors, Philip |
Fire Season |
| De Waal, Edmund |
The Hare With the Amber Eyes |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
The Language Of Flowers |
| Eire, Carlos |
Waiting For Snow in Havana |
| Ephron, Nora |
Crazy Salad |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
No Ordinary Time |
| Gordimer, Nadine |
No Time Like the Present |
| Green, John |
The Fault in Our Stars |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night Time |
| Harbach, Chad |
The Art Of Fielding |
| Hellman, Lillian |
Watch On the Rhine |
| Jaffe, Eric |
The King’s Best Highway |
| Landay, William |
Defending Jacob |
| Larson, Eric |
In The Garden Of Beasts |
| Lively, Penelope |
How It All Began |
| O’Brien, Tim |
The Things They Carried |
| Revis, Beth |
Across the Universe YA |
| Tropper, Jonathan |
This Is Where I leave You |
April
| Author |
Title |
| Aboulela, Leila |
Lyrics Alley |
| Anderson, M.T. |
Feed YA |
| Asch, Frank |
Mr. Maxwell’s Mouse juv |
| Barnes, Julian |
Sense Of an Ending |
| Du Maurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
| Gogol, Nikolai |
Dead Souls |
| Grant, Michael |
Gone YA |
| Hamilton, Patrick |
Angel Street |
| Harbach, Chad |
The Art Of Fielding |
| Helprin, Mark |
Winter’s Tale |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
| Kenison, Katrina |
Magical Journey |
| Lagnado, Lucette |
The Arrogant Years |
| Lawrence, Jerome |
Inherit the Wind |
| Mirvis, Tova |
Ladies Auxilary |
| Morgenstern, Erin |
The Night Circus |
| Morrison, Toni |
Home |
| Morrison, Toni |
Love |
| Mueenuddin, Daniyal |
In Other Rooms Other Wonders |
| Park, Linda Sue |
A Long Walk to Water juv |
| Reichl, Ruth |
Tender At the Bone |
| Rowling, J.K. |
Casual Vacancy |
| Saunders, George |
Pastoralia |
| Schwalbe, Will |
The End Of Your Life Book Club |
| Semple, Maria |
Where’s You Go, Bernadette |
| Suberman, Stella |
Jew Store |
| Welty, Eudora |
The Optimists Daughter |
March
| Author |
Title |
| Alexander, Caroline |
Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition |
| Conway, Jill |
Road From Coorain |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
The Language Of Flowers |
| Doig, Ivan |
The Bartenders Tale |
| Ephron, Nora |
I Feel Bad About My Neck |
| Greene, Melissa Fay |
Temple Bombing |
| Larson, Erik |
In the Garden Of Beasts |
| Mallon, Thomas |
Henry and Clara |
| McCarthy, Mary |
The Group |
| Moore, Wes |
The Other Wes Moore |
| Obrecht, Téa |
The Tiger’s Wife |
| Oliver, Lauren |
Delirium YA |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Patchett, Ann |
State of Wonder |
| Pears, Iain |
Stone’s Fall |
| Petterson, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
| Polities, Taylor M. |
The Rebel Wife |
| Shepard, Sadia |
Girl From Foreign |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
Olive Kitteridge |
| Trevor, William |
Two Lives |
| Twain, Mark |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Wharton, Edith |
House of Mirth |
February
| Author |
Title |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Caleb’s Crossing |
| De Waal, Edmund |
The Hare With Amber Eyes |
| Faulkner, William |
The Sound and the Fury |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Haigh, Jennifer |
Faith |
| Lightman, Alan |
Mr g |
| Mantel, Hilary |
Wolf Hall |
| Martin, Jacqueline Briggs |
Snowflake Bentley juv |
| Moehringer, J.R. |
Tender Bar |
| Némirovsky, Irène |
The Wine Of Solitude |
| Norris, Elizabeth |
Unraveling YA |
| Patchett, Ann |
Truth & Beauty |
| See, Lisa |
Shanghai Girls |
| Sendker, Jan-Philipp |
Art Of Hearing Heartbeats |
| Smith, Dodie |
I Capture the Castle YA |
| Smith, Roland |
Peak YA |
| Stead, Rebecca |
When You Reach Me |
| Stephenson, Neal |
Snow Crash |
| Strayed, Cheryl |
Wild |
| Sullivan, J. Courtney |
Maine |
| Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe |
The Leopard |
| Wilkerson, Isabel |
Warmth Of Other Suns |
| Wolitzer, Meg |
The Wife |
January
| Author |
Title |
| Barnes, Julian |
The Sense Of an Ending |
| Behrman, S.N. |
Duveen |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Caleb’s Crossing |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
The Marriage Plot |
| Ford, Richard |
Canada |
| García Márquez, Gabriel |
A Hundred Years Of Solitude |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
To Have and to Have Not |
| Joyce, James |
A Portrait Of the Artist As a Young Man |
| Kurlansky, Mark |
Salt: a World History |
| Lee, Shang-rae |
The Surrendered |
| Mankell, Henning |
Shadow Girls |
| Mantel, Hilary |
Wolf Hall |
| Martin, Jacqueline Briggs |
Snowflake Bentley juv |
| McCall Amith, Alexander |
Tears Of the Giraffe |
| McNeal, Tom |
To Be Sung Underwater |
| Némirocsky, Irène |
Suite Francaise |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Gilead |
| Roth, Veronica |
Divergent YA |
| Rushdie, Salman |
Satanic Verses |
| See, Lisa |
Dreams Of Joy |
| See, Lisa |
Shanghai Girls |
| Solomons, Natasha |
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English |
| Strayed, Cheryl |
Wild |
| Swanson, James |
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer juv |
| Traver, Robert |
Anatomy Of a Murder |
| Walter, Jess |
Beautiful Ruins |
2012 Choices, by month
December
| Author |
Title |
| Bennett, Alan |
Uncommon Reader |
| Catchpool, Michael |
The Cloud Spinner juv |
| Christie, Agatha |
Murder On the Orient Express |
| Condie, Ally |
Matched YA |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
Language Of Flowers |
| Eliot, George |
The Mill On the Floss |
| Greene, Melissa Fay |
The Temple Bombing |
| Hamid, Mohsin |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Hoffman, Alice |
Red Garden |
| Jones, Lloyd |
Mister Pip |
| Knebel, Gletcher |
Seven Days In May |
| Maynard, Joyce |
Good Daughters |
| Remarque, Erich Maria |
All Quiet On the Western Front |
| Russell, Karen |
Swamplandia! |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Telgemeir, Raina |
Smile juv |
| Tóibín, Colm |
Brooklyn |
| Torres, Justin |
We the Animals |
| Umrigar, Thrity |
Space Between Us |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Galapagos |
| Waldman, Amy |
The Submission |
November
| Author |
Title |
| Barnes, Julian |
The Sense Of an Ending |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Year Of Wonders |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
Language Of Flowers |
| Donoghue, Emma |
Room |
| Egan, Jennifer |
A Visit From the Goon Squad |
| Eire, Carlos |
Waiting For Snow in Havana |
| Grady, James |
Six Days of the Condor |
| Harbach, Chad |
The Art Of Fielding |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Unbroken |
| Holub, Joan |
Who Was Jim Henson? juv |
| Hornby, Nick |
Fever Pitch |
| Kennedy, Douglas |
The Moment |
| Krauss, Nicole |
Great House |
| Larsen, Eric |
In the Garden Of Beasts |
| Lore, Pittacus |
I Am Number 4 YA |
| McCullough, David |
The Great Bridge |
| Otsuka, Julie |
Buddah In the Attic |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
My Name Is Red |
| Patchett, Ann |
State Of Wonder |
| Pearl, Matthew |
Dante Club |
| Revoyr, Nina |
Age Of Dreaming |
| Roth, Veronica |
Divergent YA |
| Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief YA |
October
| Author |
Title |
| Banks, Russell |
Lost Memory Of Skin |
| Barnes, Julian |
Nothing To Be Frightened Of |
| Barnes, Julian |
The Sense of an Ending |
| Boling, Dave |
Guernica |
| Cox, Judy |
The Secret Chicken Society juv |
| Ellroy, James |
The Black Dahlia |
| Halldór |
Independent People |
| Hiaasen, Carl |
Scat juv |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Unbroken |
| Hoffman, Beth |
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
The Remains Of the Day |
| James, P.D. |
Death Comes to Pemberley |
| Joyce, James |
The Dubliners |
| Larson, Erik |
In the Garden of Beasts |
| MacLean, Alistair |
Guns Of Navarone |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| Mills, Lauren |
The Rag Coat juv |
| Obreht, Téa |
The Tiger’s Wife |
| Patchett, Ann |
State Of Wonder |
| Patel, Eboo |
Acts Of Faith |
| Rodriguez, Deborah |
A Cup Of Friendship |
| Salamon, Julie |
Wendy and the Lost Boys |
| Towles, Amor |
Rules Of Civility |
| Wilkerson, Isabel |
The Warmth Of Other Suns |
September
| Author |
Title |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse |
Wintergirls YA |
| Bard, Elizabeth |
Lunch in Paris |
| Barnes, Julian |
The Sense of an Ending |
| Blake, Sarah |
Postmistress |
| Calvino, Italo |
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler |
| Chang, Jung |
Wild, Swans |
| Gutman, Dan |
Miss Child has Gone WIld! juv |
| Harbach, Chad |
The Art of Fielding |
| Hegi, Ursula |
Children and Fire |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and Other Stories |
| Irving, John |
In One Person |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Massie, Robert |
Catherine the Great |
| McHenry, Jael |
The Kitchen Daughter |
| Morpurgo, Michael |
An Elephant in the Garden juv |
| Schiff, Stacy |
Cleopatra |
| Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Sullivan, J. Courtney |
Maine |
| Tropper, Jonathan |
This is Where I Leave You |
August
| Author |
Title |
| Davies, Robertson |
Fifth Business |
| Eire, Carlos M.N. |
Waiting For Snow in Havana |
| Hamilton, Gabrielle |
Blood, Bones and Butter |
| James, P.D. |
Death Comes to Pemberley |
| McCarthy, Mary |
The Group |
| Ward, Jesmyn |
Salvage the Bones |
July
| Author |
Title |
| Bâ |
So Long a Letter |
| Buckley, Christopher |
Losing Mum and Pup |
| Ellroy, James |
The Black Dahlia |
| Gowda, Shilpi Somaya |
Secret Daughter |
| Hellman, Lillian |
Children’s Hour |
| Hustvedt, Siri |
The SUmmer Without Men |
| Lai, Thanhha |
Inside Out and Back Again juv |
| Lewis, Michael |
Liar’s Poker |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| Odets, Clifford |
The Country Girl |
| Schiff, Stacy |
Cleopatra a Life |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis |
Prep |
| Wiggins, Marianne |
Evidence of Things Unseen |
June
| Author |
Title |
| Banks, Russell |
Continental Drift |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Caleb’s Crossing |
| Buchan, John |
The Thirty-nine Steps |
| Buyea, Rob |
Because Of Mr. Terupt juv |
| Cormier, Robert |
I Am the Cheese YA |
| Dean, Debra |
Madonnas Of Leningrad |
| Donoghue, Emma |
Room |
| Egan, Jennifer |
A Visit From the Goon Squad |
| Ford, Jamie |
Hotel On the Corner Of Bitter and Sweet |
| Joyce, James |
Dubliners |
| McInerney, Jay |
The Good Life |
| Moore, Liz |
Heft |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
Mudwoman |
| Obreht, Téa |
Tiger’s Wife |
| Pinkwater, Daniel |
Mrs. Noodlekugel juv |
| Shenk, Joshua |
Lincoln’s Melancholy |
| Shriver, Lionel |
We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| Thompson, Jean |
The Year We Left Home |
| Toibin, Colm |
Brooklyn |
| Towles, Amor |
Rules Of Civility |
| Umrigar, Thrity |
The Space Between Us |
| Watson, S.J. |
Before I Go to Sleep |
| Wolfe, Thomas |
Look Homeward Angel |
May
| Author |
Title |
| Adiga, Aravind |
Last Man in Tower |
| Anton, Maggie |
Rashi’s Daughter, Book II. Miriam |
| Banks, Russell |
The Darling |
| Barbery, Muriel |
Elegance Of the Hedgehog |
| Conroy, Pat |
My Reading Life |
| Donoghue, Emma |
Room |
| Fleischman, Sid |
Bandit’s Moon juv |
| Gardam, Jane |
Crusoe’s Daughter |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly |
Maggie’s Door juv |
| Goldman, Judy |
Early Leaving |
| Grunwald, Lisa |
Irresistible Henry House |
| Haigh, Jennifer |
Faith |
| Heller, Zoe |
What Was She Thinking: Notes On a Scandal |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Moveable Feast |
| Hilton, James |
Lost Horizon |
| James, Henry |
Turn Of the Screw |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Lacuna |
| Krakauer, Jon |
Under the Banner Of Heaven |
| Lewycka, Marina |
A Short History Of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| Lucette, Lagnado |
The Arrogant Years |
| Malamud, Bernard |
The Natural |
| Manchester, William |
A World Lit Only By Fire |
| Moore, Alan |
Watchman |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
The Family Moskat |
| Spiegalman, Art |
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale |
| Spiegalman, Art |
Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: and Here My Troubles Began |
| Sweet, Melissa |
Balloons Over Broadway juv |
| Toibin, Colm |
Brooklyn |
| Yang, Gene Luen |
American Born Chinese YA |
| Zafon, Carlos Ruiz |
he Shadow Of the Wind |
April
| Author |
Title |
| Babbitt, Natalie |
Tuck Everlasting juv |
| Castellucci, Cecil |
First Day On Earth YA |
| Creech, Sharon |
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup juv |
| Edgarian, Carol |
Three Satges Of Amazement |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Finney, Jack |
Time and Again YA |
| George, Jean Craighead |
There’s An Owl In the Shower juv |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly |
Storyteller juv |
| Griffiths, Andy |
The Cat On the Mat is Flat juv |
| Law, Ingrid |
Savvy juv |
| McCarthy, Mary |
The Group |
| McLain, Paula |
The Paris Wife |
| Oliveira, Robin |
My Name is Mary Sutter |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
Snow |
| Park, Barbara |
Skinnybones juv |
| Pennypacker, Sara |
Clementine juv |
| Rattigan, Terence |
Separate Tables |
| Rayner, Richard |
Cloud Sketcher |
| Shteyngart, Gary |
Super Sad True Love Story |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
Enemies, a Love Story |
| Twain, Mark |
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn |
| Umrigar, Thirty |
The Space Between Us |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Slaughterhouse-five |
| Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief YA |
March
| Author |
Title |
| Adiga, Aravind |
Last Man In Tower |
| Adiga, Aravind |
The White Tiger |
| Asher, Jay |
Thirteen Reasons Why YA |
| Boyce, Frank Cottrell |
Framed juv |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Caleb’s Crossing |
| Cowley, Joy |
Snake and Lizard juv |
| Cunningham, Michael |
The Hours |
| Danticat, Edwidge |
Brother I’m Dying |
| Dawkins, Richard |
The Selfish Gene |
| Dickens, Charles |
Tale Of Two Cities |
| Ferber, Edna |
Show Boat |
| Grossman, David |
The Yellow Wind |
| Green, John |
Will Grayson, Will Grayson YA |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Moveable Feast |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
The Sun Also Rises |
| Hobbs, Will |
Crossing the Wire juv |
| Larson, Eric |
In the Garden Of Beasts |
| L’Engle Madeleine |
Wrinkle In Time juv |
| Leroy, Margaret |
Soldier’s Wife |
| Lively, Penelope |
Family Album |
| Maugham, W. Somerset |
The Painted Veil |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
The Road |
| McLain, Paula |
The Paris Wife |
| Morpurgo Michael |
War Horse juv |
| Oliver, Lauren |
Before I Fall YA |
| Perkins-Valdez, Dolen |
Wench |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
The Falls |
| Patchett, Ann |
Patron Saint Of Liars |
| Picoult Jodi |
House Rules |
| Schiff, Stacy |
Cleopatra: A Life |
| Sebald, Winifried George |
The Emigrants |
| Sin, Kyong-suk |
Please Look After Mom |
| Stead, Rebecca |
When You Reach Me juv |
| Trollope, Anthony |
The Warden |
| Vizzini, Ned |
Be More Chill YA |
| Yang, Gene Luen |
American Born Chinese YA |
February
| Author |
Title |
| Achebe, Chinua |
Things Fall Apart YA |
| Alvarez, Julia |
In the Time Of the Butterflies |
| Austen, Jane |
Sense and Sensibility |
| Blackwood, Gary |
The Shakespeare Stealer juv |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
People Of the Book |
| Diamant, Anita |
The Red Tent |
| Hammett, Dashiell |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Frederick, Heather Vogel |
The Mother Daughter Book Club juv |
| Goolrick, Robert |
A Reliable Wife |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Obrecht Téa |
The Tiger’s Wife |
| Rowley, Hazel |
Franklin and Eleanor |
| Ridley, Matt |
The Rational Optimist |
| Schiff, Stacy |
Cleopatra: A Life |
| Schwartz, Lynne Sharon |
Disturbances in the Field |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Angle Of Repose |
| Taylor, Peter |
Summons To Memphis |
| Tanner, Haley |
Vaclav and Lena |
| Toynton, Evelyn |
The Oriental Wife |
| Vande, Velde, Vivian |
8 Class Pets + One Squirrel [Divided by] One Dog = Chaos juv |
| Verghese, Abraham |
Cutting For Stone |
| Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway |
January
| Author |
Title |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
People Of the Book |
| Carter, Betsy |
Puzzle King |
| Carter, Betsy |
Puzzle King |
| Dallas, Sandra |
Prayers For Sale |
| Diamond, Jared |
Guns, Germs and Steel |
| Doig, Ivan |
The Whistling Season |
| Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly |
Pictures Of Hollis Woods juv |
| Grossman, David |
To the End Of the Land |
| Hannah, Kristin |
Magic Hour |
| Hardy, Thomas |
Mayor Of Casterbridge |
| Heiligman, Deborah |
Charles and Emma: the Darwins Leap Of Faith |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Moveable Feast |
| Hilton, James |
Random Harvest |
| Krakauer, John |
Under the Banner Of Heaven |
| Leavitt, Caroline |
Pictures Of You |
| Mandanipour, Shahriar |
Censoring an Iranian Love Story |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter |
Ahab’s Wife, or, the Star-gazer: a novel |
| Nothomb, Amélie |
Fear and Trembling |
| Otsuka, Julie |
The Buddha in the Attic |
| Patchett, Ann |
Run |
| Richards, Keith |
Life |
| Skloot, Rebecca |
Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks |
| Steptoe. John |
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale juv |
| Verghese, Abraham |
Cutting For Stone |
| Ward, Jesmyn |
Salvage the Bones |
| Wiles, Deborah |
Countdown juv |
| Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway |
2011 Choices, by month
December 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Atwood, Margaret |
The Blind Assassin |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Caleb’s Crossing |
| Dahl, Roald |
Enormous Crocodile juv |
| Dickens, Charles |
Christmas Stories |
| Dilard, Annie |
The Maytrees |
| Doctorow, Cory |
Little Brother YA |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Fleischman, Sid |
The Whipping Boy juv |
| Ford, Jamie |
Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet |
| Moore, Brian |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne |
| Otsuka, Julie |
When the Emperor Was Divine |
| Rachman, Tom |
Imperfectionists |
| Rushdie, Salman |
Midnights Children |
| Russell, Karen |
Swamplandia! |
| See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Smith, Patti |
Just Kids |
| Thompson, Jean |
Throw Like a Girl |
| Tropper, Jonathan |
This Is Where I Leave You |
| Umrigar, Thrity |
The Space Between Us |
| Verghese, Abraham |
Cutting For Stone |
| Wallace, David Foster |
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men |
Back to the top
November 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Chang, Lan Samantha |
Inheritance |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Davies, Jacqueline |
The Lemonade War juv |
| Doerr, Anthony |
Memory Wall |
| Eire, Carlos |
Waiting For Snow In Havana |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Hill, Lawrence |
Someone Knows My Name |
| Jenkins, Emily |
Invisible Inkling juv |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Lacuna |
| Martin, Steve |
An Object Of Beauty |
| McMurtry, Larry |
Lonesome Dove |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
Family Matters |
| Ozick, Cynthia |
Foreign Bodies |
| Pearlman, Edith |
Binocular Vision |
| Riordan, Rick |
The Red Pyramid juv |
| Rosnay, Tatiana de |
Sarah’s Key |
| Scieszka, Jon |
Knights Of the Kitchen Table juv |
| Tuchman, Barbara |
The Proud Tower |
| Umrigar, Thrity |
The Space Between Us |
| Wasserstein, Wendy |
The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays |
| Yu, Hua |
To Live |
| Ziegelman, Jane |
97 Orchard |
| Zweig, Stefan |
The Post Office Girl |
Back to the top
October 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Alexie, Sherman |
The Absolutely True Diary If a Part-time Indian YA |
| Bacigalupi, Paolo |
Ship Breaker YA |
| Banks, Russell |
Cloudsplitter |
| Benjamin, Melanie |
Autobiography Of Mrs. Tom Thumb |
| Collins, Wilkie |
Woman In White |
| Doctorow, E.L. |
Homer Langley |
| Forster, E.M. |
The Longest Journey |
| Gardam, Jane |
Olf Filth |
| Gorsimer, Nadine |
The Pickup |
| Gorokhova, Elena |
Mountain Of Crumbs |
| Grossman, David |
To the End Of the Land |
| Gutman, Dan |
Miss Child Has Gone Wild juv |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
Moveable Feast |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
The Sun Also Rises |
| Le Carré, John |
The Night Manager |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
Gravediggers Daughter |
| Ogawa, Yoko |
The Housekeeper and the Professor |
| Richards, Keith |
Life |
| Rosenblatt, Roger |
Making Toast |
| Sin, Kyong-suk |
Please Look After Mom |
| Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina |
| Trollope, Anthony |
The Way We Live Now |
| Umrigar, Thirty |
The Space Between Us |
Back to the top
September 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Aciman, Andre |
Out Of Egypt |
| Bunting, Eve |
How Many Days to America juv |
| Davis, Natalie Zemon |
The Return of Martin Guerre |
| Friedman, George |
The Next 100 Years |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
Moveable Feast |
| Krakauer, Jon |
Under the Bannder of Heaven |
| McMurtry, Larry |
Lonesome Dove |
| O’Neill, Joseph |
Neatherland |
| Rylant, Cynthia |
The Relatives Came juv |
| Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| Stein, Gertrude |
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Stone, Phoebe |
The Romeo and Juliet Code juv |
| Turow, Scott |
Innocent |
| White, E.B. |
Trumpet of the Swan |
Back to the top
August 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Baker, Tiffany |
Little Giant Of Aberdeen County |
| Cather, Willa |
Death Comes For the Archbishop |
| Cormier, Robert |
After the First Death YA |
| Mason, Bobbie Ann |
Nancy Culpepper |
| Shalev, Meir |
A Pigeon and a Boy |
| Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| Ward, Rachel |
Numbers YA |
Back to the top
July 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Dashner, James |
The Maze Runner YA |
| Desai, Kiran |
Inheritance of Loss |
| Du Maurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
| Fabiano, Laurie |
Elizabeth Street |
| Ford, Jamie |
Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet |
| Gornick, Vivian |
Fierce Attachments |
| Hibbert, Christopher |
Redcoats and Rebels |
| Kidder, Tracy |
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
| Larson, Erik |
Devil in the White City |
| McCall Smith, Alexander |
La’s Orchestra Saves the World |
| Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Stockett, Kathryn |
The Help |
Back to the top
June 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Anderson, Terry A. |
Den Of Lions |
| Asher, Jay |
Thirteen Reasons Why YA |
| Auchincloss, Louis |
The Rector Of Justin |
| Barbery, Muriel |
The Elegance Of the Hedgehog |
| Bronte, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
| Chance, Megan |
An Inconvenient Wife |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara |
Nickel and Dimed |
| Goolrick, Robert |
A Reliable Wife |
| Grossman, David |
To the End Of the Land |
| Gutman, Dan |
Nightmare At the Book Fair juv |
| Haddon, Mark |
Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night-time |
| Krakauer, Jon |
Where Men Win Glory |
| Lamott, Ann |
Blue Shoe |
| Lawson, Mary |
Crow Lake |
| McCall Amith, Alexander |
Five Lost Aunts Of Harriet Bean juv |
| Mendelson, Charlotte |
When We Were Bad |
| Murray, Paul |
Skippy Dies |
| Ogawa, Yoko |
Housekeeper and the Professor |
| Oliver, Lauren |
Before I Fall YA |
| Paton, Alan |
Cry the Beloved Country |
| Picoult, Jodi |
House Rules |
| Rachman, Tom |
The Imperfectionists |
| Rose, Sarah |
For All the Tea in China |
| Seldon, George |
The Cricket in Times Square juv |
| Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Crossing To Safety |
| Tyler, Anne |
Digging To America |
| Vizzini, Ned |
Be More Chill YA |
| Walls, Jeannette |
The Glass Castle |
Back to the top
May 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Atkinson, Kate |
One Good Turn |
| Blake, Sarah |
The Postmistress |
| Bohjalian, Chris |
The Double Bind |
| Collins, Suzanne |
The Hunger Games YA |
| Davidson, Margaret |
Helen Keller juv |
| DiSalvo, DyAnne |
The Sloppy Copy Slipup juv |
| Ephron, Nora |
I Remember Nothing |
| Gardam, Jane |
God On the Rocks |
| Harris, Robert |
Pompeii |
| Horan, Nancy |
Loving Frank |
| Houghteling, Sara |
Pictures At an Exhibition |
| Judt, Tony |
Memory Chalet |
| Krakauer, Jon |
Under the Banner of Heaven |
| Lanthier, Jennifer |
The Mystery of the Martello Tower juv |
| Menendez, Ana |
The Last War |
| Moran, Johanna |
The Wives of Henry Oades |
| Rachman, Tom |
The Imperfectionists |
| Rhodes, Richard |
The Making Of the Atomic Bomb |
| Satrapi, Marjane |
Persepolis |
| Simonsen, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| Spinelli, Jerry |
Fourth Grade Rats juv |
| Stockett, Kathryn |
The Help |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
Olive Kitteridge |
| Soli, Tatjana |
Lotus Eaters |
| Tyler, Anne |
Digging To America |
| Wolitzer, Meg |
The Ten Year Map |
Back to the top
April 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Allende, Isabel |
Inés Of My Soul |
| Bowles, Paul |
Sheltering Sky |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
March |
| Busfield, Andrea |
Born Under a Million Shadows |
| Chabon, Michael |
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union |
| Cunnimgham, Michael |
By Nightfall |
| Díaz, Junot |
Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao |
| Draper, Sharon |
Out of Mind juv |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly |
Eleven juv |
| Griswold, Eliza |
The Tenth Parallel |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| LeBor |
City of Oranges |
| Lee, Chang-rae |
Native Speaker |
| London, Jack |
The Sea-wolf |
| Lupica, Mike |
Heat juv |
| Maugham, W. Somerset |
The Painted Veil |
| Mayes, Frances |
Under the Tuscan Sun |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| O’Neill, Joseph |
Netherland |
| Pennypacker, Sara |
Great Egyptian Grave Robbery juv |
| Potter, Ellen |
Slob juv |
| Roy, Arundhati |
God of Small Things |
| Shreve, Anita |
Testimony |
| Stockett, Kathryn |
The Help |
| Trevor, William |
Cheating at Canasta |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario |
The Bad Girl |
| Wharton, Edith |
Ethan Frome |
Back to the top
March 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Barbery, Muriel |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
| Bloom, Amy |
Away |
| Bohjalian, Chris |
The Buffalo Soldier |
| Bohjalian, Chris |
The Double Bind |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail |
The Master and Margarita |
| Guilfoile, Kevin |
Cast Of Shadows |
| Helprin, Mark |
Winter’s Tale |
| Hijuelos, Oscar |
A Simple Habana Melody |
| Leroy, Margaret |
Yes, My Darling Daughter |
| Levi, Primo |
If Not Now, When |
| Mason, Richard |
Natural Elements |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| McCullough, David |
The Path Between the Seas |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
Slam YA |
| Rose, Sarah |
For All the Tea In China |
| Shalev, Meir |
A Pigeon and a Boy |
| Turner, Nancy |
These Is My Words |
| Updike, John |
Rabbit Run |
| Walls, Jeannette |
The Glass Castle |
| Wilson, N.D. |
Leepike Ridge juv |
Back to the top
February 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Auster, Paul |
Sunset Park |
| Bergreen, Laurence |
Over the Edge Of the World |
| Berendt, John |
City Of Falling Angels |
| Buyea, Rob |
Because Of Mr. Terupt juv |
| Ciment, Jill |
Heroic Measures |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Giff, Patricia |
Storyteller juv |
| Gutman, Dan |
Mrs. Dole is Out Of Control juv |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
Among the Hidden juv |
| Harding, Paul |
Tinkers |
| Homer (Fagles Translation) |
The Iliad |
| King, Lily |
Father Of the Rain |
| Larson, Erik |
Devil In the White City |
| Lipsyte, Sam |
The Ask |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| Mendelson, Charlotte |
When We Were Bad |
| Moore, Lorrie |
A Gate At the Stairs |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis |
American Wife |
| Trollope, Anthony |
The Way We Live Now |
| Tyler, Anne |
Digging to America |
| Walls, Jeanette |
Half Broke Horses |
| Wolfe, Tom |
From Bauhaus to our house |
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January 2011
| Author |
Title |
| Anton, Maggie |
Rashi’s Daughters. Book one. Joheved |
| Atwood, Margaret |
The Blind Assassin |
| Bellow, Saul |
Herzog |
| Cather, Willa |
O Pioneers |
| Clarke, Brock |
Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England |
| Collins, Suzanne |
The Hinger Games YA |
| Draper, Sharon |
Out Of Mind juv |
| Dufresne, John |
Love Warps the Mind a Little |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Forster, E.M. |
A Passage to India |
| Goolrick, Robert |
A Reliable Wife |
| Gornick, Vivian |
Fierce Attachments |
| Gutman, Dan |
Mrs. Dole Is Out Of Control! juv |
| Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Lacuna |
| O’Connor, Barbara |
How to Steal a Dog juv |
| Shakespeare, William |
The Tragedy of King Lear |
| Sherry, Maureen |
Walls Within Walls juv |
| Shteyngart, Gary |
Super Sad True Love Story |
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2010 Choices, by month
December 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Clements, Andrew |
We the Children juv |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Disgrace |
| Diamant, Anita |
Day After Night |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Faulks, Sebastian |
A Week in December |
| Galloway, Steven |
Cellist Of Sarajevo |
| Hamid, Mohsin |
Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Harding, Paul |
Tinkers |
| Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
Infidel |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| London, Jack |
The Sea Wolf |
| Lourie, Peter |
Hudson River: An Adventure From the Mountains to the Sea juv |
| Maugham, Somerset |
The Razor’s Edge |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| Ogawa, Yoko |
The Housekeeper and the Professor |
| Peck, M. Scott |
The Road Less Traveled |
| Preller, James |
Bystander juv |
| See, Lisa |
Shanghai Girls |
| Shaffer, Mary Ann |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| Skloot, Rebecca |
Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks |
| Stein, Garth |
The Art Of Racing in the Rain |
| Thomas, Dylan |
A Child’s Christmas in Wales juv |
| Trevor, William |
Story Of Lucy Gault |
| Umrigar, Thrity |
The Space Between Us |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario |
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter |
| Wharton, Edith |
The House Of Mirth |
| Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief |
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November 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Adiga, Aravind |
White Tiger |
| Atwood, Margaret |
Oryx and Crake |
| Barbery, Muriel |
The Elegance Of the Hedgehog |
| Benioff, David |
City Of Thieves |
| Christie, Agatha |
Murder On the Orient Express |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Waiting For the Barbarians |
| DuMauier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| Goolrick, Robert |
A Reliable Wife |
| Grunwald, Lisa |
The Irresistable Henry House |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Kelly, Jacqueline |
The Evolution Of Calpurnia Tate juv |
| Petterson, Per |
I Curse the River Of Time |
| Picoult, Jodi |
The Tenth Circle |
| Sabar, Ariel |
My Father’s Paradise |
| See, Lisa |
Shanghai Girls |
| Swanson, James |
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer juv |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario |
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter |
| Winspear, Jacqueline |
Maisie Dobbs |
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October 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Anton, Maggie |
Rashi’s Daughters. Book One. Joheved |
| Auster, Paul |
Moon Palace |
| Benioff, David |
City of Thieves |
| Doctorow, E.L. |
Homer & Langley |
| Eggers, David |
Zeitoun |
| Forester, E.M. |
A Passage to India |
| Galloway, Steven |
The Cellist Of Sarajevo |
| Halpern, Julie |
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder YA |
| Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
Infidel |
| Horn, Dora |
The World to Come |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Lacuna |
| Kureishi, Hanif |
Something to Tell You |
| Mamet, David |
Oleanna (Play) |
| Matthews, Owen |
Stalin’s Children |
| McCann, Colum |
Let the Great World Spin |
| Norman, Howard A. |
What Is Left the Daughter |
| Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| Skloot, Rebecca |
Immortal Life Of Henritta Lacks |
| Stockett, Kathryn |
The Help |
| Toibin, Colm |
Brooklyn |
| Trollope, Anthony |
Barchester Towers |
| Wright, Jason F. |
The Wednesday Letters |
| Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief |
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September 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Adiche, Chinamanda Ngozi |
Purple Hibiscus |
| Broach, Elise |
Masterpiece juv |
| Chaon, Dan |
Await Your Reply |
| Downey,Kirstin |
The Woman Behind the New Deal |
| Fadiman, Anne |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
| Hammett, Dashiell |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Harris, Joanne |
Five Quarters Of the Orange |
| Henkes, Kevin |
Julius, the Baby Of the World juv |
| Isherwood, Christopher |
The Berlin Stories |
| Kingsolver. Barbara |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle |
| Macintyre, Ben |
The Man Who Would Be King: the First American In Afghanistan |
| Ogawa, Yöko |
The Housekeeper and the Professor |
| Oz, Amos |
Tale Of Love and Darkness |
| Shalev, Meir |
A Pigeon and A Boy |
| Shamsie, Kamila |
Burnt Shadows |
| Skloot, Rebecca |
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks |
| Toobin, Jeffrey |
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court |
| Updike, John |
Terrorist |
| Ursula, Hegi |
The Vision Of Emma Blau |
| Wolfe, Tom |
I Am Charlotte Simmons |
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August 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Cather, Willa |
Professor’s House |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
Crime and Punishment |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| Foer, Jonathan |
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close |
| Hall, Ron |
Same Kind Of Different As Me |
| Rakha, Naseem |
Crying Tree |
| Tan, Twan Eng |
Gift Of Rain |
| Walls, Jeannette |
Half Broke Horses |
| Wolff, Mishna |
I’m Down |
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July 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Auster, Paul |
Invisible |
| Baker, Tiffany |
Little Giant of Aberdeen County |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
People of the Book |
| Delany, Sarah |
Having Our Say |
| DuMaurier, Daphne |
Cousin Rachel |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
No Ordinary Time |
| Heilemann, John |
Game Change |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Lacuna |
| Krauss, Nicole |
History of Love |
| Mayle, Peter |
The Vintage Caper |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
Gravedigger’s Daughter |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis |
American Wife |
| Tan, Amy |
Bonesetter’s Daughter |
| Wagenstein, Angel |
Farewell, Shanghai |
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June 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Barbery, Muriel |
The Elegance Of the Hedgehog |
| Banville, John |
The Sea |
| Buck, Pearl |
Peony |
| Clark, Martin |
The Legal Limit |
| Grenville, Kate |
Secret River |
| Hill, Lawrence |
Someone Knows My Name |
| Itani, Frances |
Remembering the Bones |
| Kurson, Robert |
Shadow Divers |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Unaccustomed Earth |
| Lord, Cynthia |
Rules juv |
| Marciano, Francesca |
Rules Of the Road |
| Mortenson, Greg |
Three Cups of Tea |
| O’Brien, Tim |
In the Lake Of the Woods |
| O’Neill, Joseph |
Netherland |
| Raskin, Ellen |
The Westing Game juv |
| Schaffer, Mary Ann |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society |
| Setterfield, Diane |
The Thirteenth Tale |
| Welty, Eudora |
The Optimist’s Daughter |
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May 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Adiga, Aravind |
The White Tiger |
| Barbery, Muriel |
Gourmet Rhapsody |
| Benioff, David |
City Of Thieves |
| Bloom, Amy |
Away |
| Burgess, Anthony |
End Of the World News |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| García Márquez, Gabriel |
Love In the Time Of Cholera |
| Genova, Lisa |
Still Alice |
| Glass, Julia |
I See You Everywhere |
| Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
Infidel |
| Johnson, Paul |
Churchill |
| Klise, Kate |
Regarding the Fountain juv |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Unaccustomed Earth |
| Larson, Erik |
Thunderstruck |
| Melville, Herman |
Omoo |
| Mortenson, Gary |
Three Cups Of Tea |
| Reinhold, Niebuhr |
Irony Of American History |
| Shaffer, Mary Ann |
The Guernsey Literary and Potatp Peel Pie Society |
| Shriver, Lionel |
We Need To Talk About Kevin |
| Walbert, Kate |
Short History Of Women |
| Watson, Larry |
Montana 1948: a novel |
| Winchester, Simon |
Professor and the Madman |
| Winthrop, Elizabeth |
Island Justice |
| Zhang, Ailing |
Love In a Fallen City |
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April 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Aswany, Alaa |
The Yacoubian Building |
| Benioff, David |
City Of Thieves |
| Brashares, Ann |
3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows YA |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
People Of the Book |
| Buck, Pearl S. |
The Good Earth |
| Caldwell, Bo |
The Distant Land Of My Father |
| Ebershoff, David |
The 19th Wife |
| Ferris, Joshua |
The Unnamed |
| Gardam, Jane |
The Man In the Wodden Hat |
| Godwin, Peter |
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun |
| Gruen, Sara |
Water For Elephants |
| Hamid, Mohsin |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
Infidel |
| Kent, Kathleen |
The Heretics Daughter |
| Konigsburg, E.L. |
From the Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler juv |
| Lawrence, D.H. |
Sons and Lovers |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
The Road |
| Milner, Donna |
After River |
| Preller, James |
Bystander juv |
| Tropper, Jonathan |
The Book of Joe |
| Twain, Mark |
Innocents Abroad |
| Thrity, Umrigar |
The Space Between Us |
| Walls, Jeanette |
Glass Castle |
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March 2010
| Author |
Title |
| Barbery, Muriel |
Elegance Of the Hedgehog |
| Baszile, Jennifer Lynn |
Black Girl Next Door |
| Binchy, Maeve |
Tara Road |
| Chen, Da |
Colors Of the Mountain |
| Evans, Douglas |
MVP* Magellan Voyage Project juv |
| Godwin, Peter |
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: a Memoir of Africa |
| Hardy, Thomas |
The Mayor Of Casterbridge |
| Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Kidder, Tracy |
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
| Kim, Eugenia |
The Calligrapher’s Daughter |
| Hilary, Mantel |
Fludd |
| Moore, Lorrie |
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? |
| Mortensen, Greg |
Three Cups Of tea |
| Mueenuddin, Daniyal |
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders: Connected Stories |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter |
Ahab’s Wife, Or, the Star-gazer: a Novel |
| O’Donnell, Patrick |
Brenner Assignment |
| Petterson, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
| Salinger, J.D. |
Nine Stories |
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February 2010
| 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 |
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January 2010
| 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 |
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2009 Choices, by month
December 2009
| 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 |
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November 2009
| 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 2009
| 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 |
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September 2009
| 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 |
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August 2009
| 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 2009
| 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 |
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June 2009
| 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 |
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May 2009
| 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 2009
| 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 |
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March 2009
| 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… |
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February 2009
| 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 |
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January 2009
| 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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2008 Choices, by month
December 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Ackerman, Diane |
Zookeeper’s Wife |
| Amirrezvani, Anita |
The Blood of Flowers |
| Ashworth, John |
Overhead the Sun |
| Benioff, David |
City of Thieves |
| Brookner, Anita |
Leaving Home |
| Butler, Octavia |
Kindred |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin |
Crossing to Paradise YA |
| Doctorow, E.L. |
Ragtime |
| Englander, Nathan |
Ministry of Special Cases |
| Enright, Anne |
The Gathering |
| Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel |
The General in His Labyrinth |
| Gregory, Phillipa |
Constant Princess |
| Gutman, Dan |
Homework Machine juv |
| Haigh, Jennifer |
The Condition |
| Henkes, Kevin |
Bird Lake Moon juv |
| Marton, Kati |
The Great Escape |
| McEwan, Ian |
On Chesil Beach |
| Petterson, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
| Setterfield, Kim |
The Thirteenth Tale |
| Shreve, Anita |
A Wedding in December |
| Strauss, Darin |
Chang & Eng |
| Toole, John Kennedy |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Walls, Jeannette |
The Glass Castle |
| Zola, Émile |
Germinal |
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November 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Banks, Russell |
Sweet Here After |
| Binchy, Maeve |
Nights of Rain and Stars |
| Brokaw, Tom |
Boom |
| Cleary, Beverly |
The Mouse and the Motorcycle juv |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul |
Bucking The Sarge |
| Eggers, Dave |
What is What |
| Foer, Jonathan |
Estremely Loud &Incredibly Close |
| Grimbert, Philippe |
Memory |
| Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
Infidel |
| Lavigne, Michael |
Not Me |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
The Road |
| Messud, Claire |
The Emperor’s Children |
| Roth, Philip |
American Pastoral |
| Shriver, Lionel |
The Post-Birthday World |
| Tyler, Anne |
Digging to America |
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October 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Bauer, Joan |
Peeled juv |
| Bloom, Amy |
Away |
| Brookner, Anita |
Hotel du Lac |
| Coomer, Joe |
Pocketful of Names |
| Díaz, Junot |
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Fulton, Alice |
The Nightingales of Troy |
| Gaines, Ernest |
A Lesson Before Dying |
| Goodman, Allegra |
Intuition |
| Hall, Meredith |
Without a Map |
| Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
Infidel |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Mermaid Chair |
| Kidder, Tracy |
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
| Lively, Penelope |
Moon Tiger |
| Murasaki Shikibu |
The Tale of Genji |
| Umrigar, Thrity |
The Space Between Us |
| Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited |
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September 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi |
Half of a Yellow Sun |
| Banks, Melissa |
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing |
| Collins, Wilkie |
Woman in White |
| Deasi, Kiran |
Inheritance of Loss |
| Díaz, Junot |
Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Erie, Carlos |
Waiting For Snow in Havanna |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
| Frey, James |
Brigth Shiny Morning |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Oz, Amos |
To Know a Woman |
| Pastan, Rachel |
Lady of the Snakes |
| Setterfield, Diane |
The Thirteenth Tale |
| Shriver, Lionel |
Post-Birthday World |
| Truong, Monique |
Book of Salt |
| Wodehouse, P.G. |
Carry On, Jeeves |
| Zusak, Martus |
The Book Thief |
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August 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi |
Half of a Yellow Sun |
| Doig, Ivan |
Whistling Season |
| Epstein, Joseph |
Fabulous Small Jews |
| Fforde, Jasper |
The Eyre Affair |
| Graboys, Thomas |
Life in the Balance |
| Livesey, Margot |
Missing World |
| Lurie, Alison |
Foreign Affairs |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Petterson, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
| Rubinstein, Julian |
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber |
| Vapnyar, Lara |
There Are Jews in My House |
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July 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Eggers, Dave |
What is What |
| Ferris, Joshua |
Then We Came to the End |
| Gruen, Sara |
Water For Elephants |
| Krakauer, Jon |
Under the Banner of Heaven |
| Larsen, Eric |
The Devil in the White City |
| Livesey, Margot |
Eva Moves the Furniture |
| MacFarland, Dennis |
Letter From Point Clear |
| Mason, Daniel |
Piano Tuner |
| Setterfield, Diane |
The Thirteenth Tale |
| Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief |
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June 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Anouilh, Jean |
Antigone |
| Banville, John |
The Sea |
| Calvino, Italo |
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler |
| Dean, Debra |
The Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Gleeson, Janet |
The Thief Taker |
| Grisham, John |
The Innocent Man |
| Gruen, Sara |
Water for Elephants |
| Horan, Nancy |
Loving Frank |
| Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Matar, Hisham |
In the Country of Men |
| Maynard, Joyce |
At Home in the World |
| Mehta, Gita |
A River Sutra |
| Mitford, Nancy |
The Pursuit of Love |
| Moehringer, J.R. |
The Tender Bar |
| Mortensen, Greg |
Three Cups of Tea |
| Nafisi, Azar |
Reading Lolita in Tehran |
| Nemirovsky, Irene |
Suite Francaise |
| Petterson, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
| Roth, Philip |
Everyman |
| Schwartz, John Burnham |
The Commoner |
| Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Vida, Vendela |
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name |
| Zimmerman, Jean |
The Women of the House |
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May 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Amirrezvani, Anita |
The Blood of Flowers |
| Dean, Debra |
The Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Ferber, Edna |
So Big |
| Gavalda, Anna |
Hunting and Gathering |
| Gordimer, Nadine |
The Pickup |
| Gruen, Sara |
Water For Elephants |
| Jin, Ha |
Waiting |
| Jones, Edward |
The Known World |
| Larsen, Eric |
The Devil in the White City |
| Lavigne, Michael |
Not Me |
| Lessing, Doric |
The Fifth Child |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
The Road |
| Orwell, George |
1984 |
| Powell, Anthony |
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement |
| Robinson, Marilyn |
Gilead |
| Roth, Philip |
The Human Stain |
| Russell, Mary Doria |
A Thread of Grace |
| See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Sofer, Dalia |
The Septembers of Shiraz |
| Vaite, Célestine Hitiura |
Frangipani |
| Wildgen, Michelle |
You’re Not You |
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April 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi |
Half of a Yellow Sun |
| Aswany, Alaa Al |
Yacoubian Building |
| Belli, Gioconda |
The Country Under My Skin |
| Berendt, John |
The City of Falling Angels |
| Byatt, A. S. |
Angels and Insects |
| Díaz, Junot |
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Dickens, Charles |
Great Expectations |
| Dreiser, Theodore |
Sister Carrie |
| Follett, Ken |
The Pillars of the Earth |
| Gladwell, Malcolm |
Tipping Point |
| Glass, Julia |
The Whole World Over |
| Goodwin, Rebecca |
Keeper of the House |
| Hosseini, Kaled |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Kertzer, David |
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Prodigal Summer |
| Lessing, Doris |
Fifth Child |
| Oz, Amos |
A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Pollen, Michael |
The Omnivore’s Dilemma |
| Powers, Richard |
Echo Maker |
| Saramago, Jose |
Blindness |
| See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Shreve, Anita |
Body Surfing |
| Walls, Jeanette |
The Glass Castle |
| Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief |
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March 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Amirrezvani, Anita |
Blood of Flowers |
| Black, Benjamin |
Christine Falls |
| Boyle, T.C. |
Tortilla Curtain |
| Collins, Wilkie |
The Moonstone |
| Gardham, Jane |
Old Filth |
| Gruen, Sara |
Water For Elephants |
| Hicks, Robert |
Widow of the South |
| Jin, Ha |
A Free Life |
| Leitner, Isabella |
Fragements of Isabella |
| McEwan,Ian |
Atonement |
| Mortenson, Greg |
Three Cups of Tea |
| Némirovsky, Irène |
Suite Française |
| Obama, Barack |
The Audacity of Hope |
| Roth, Joseph |
Radetzky March |
| See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Smiley, Jane |
Horse Heaven |
| Stewart, Chris |
Driving Over Lemons |
| Toole, John Kennedy |
Confederacy of Dunces |
| Updike, John |
Terrorist |
| Vickers, Salley |
Miss Garnet’s Angel |
| Voltaire |
Candide |
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February 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Nqozi |
Purple Hibiscus |
| Allende, Isabel |
Inés of My Soul |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Year of Wonders |
| Conroy, Frank |
Body and Soul |
| Dean, Debra |
The Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Desai, Kiran |
Inheritance of Loss |
| Díaz, Junot |
Drown |
| Eliot, T.S. |
Murder in the Cathedral |
| Faulkner, William |
Light in August |
| Hamid, Mohsin |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Hazzard, Shirley |
The Great Fire |
| Lovell, Mary S. |
Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family |
| McDermott, Alice |
After This |
| Millard, Candice |
River of Doubt |
| Obama, Barack |
The Audacity of Hope |
| Robison, John Elder |
Look Me in the Eye |
| Satrapi, Marjane |
Persepolis |
| Shafak, Elif |
The Bastard of Istanbul |
| Shreve, Anita |
A Wedding in December |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Angle of Repose |
| Tolstoy, Leo |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
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January 2008
| Author |
Title |
| Cather, Willa |
Sapphira and the Slave Girl |
| Eggers, Dave |
What is the What |
| Ellison, Ralph |
Juneteenth |
| Grisham, John |
The Innocent Man |
| Gross, Gwendolen |
The Other Mother |
| Krakauer, Jon |
Under the Banner of Heaven |
| Mailer, Norman |
Tough Guys Don’t Dance |
| Maynard, Joyce |
At Home in the World |
| Nemirovsky, Irene |
Suite Française |
| Peace, David |
Tokyo Year Zero |
| Pessl, Marisha |
Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
| Soueif, Ahdaf |
The Map of Love |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
Abide With Me |
| Tóibin, Colm |
The Master |
| Tyler, Anne |
Amateur Marriage |
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2007 Choices, by month
December, 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Allende, Isabel |
Ines of my soul |
| Alverez, Julia |
Saving the World |
| Brennert, Alan |
Molokai |
| Brookner, Anaita |
The Rules of Engagement |
| Brown, Tina |
Diana Chronicles |
| Carey, Peter |
Oscar and Lucinda |
| Cather, Willa |
Sapphira and the Slave Girl |
| Dean, Debra |
Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Dumas, Alexander |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Jones, Edward |
Known World |
| Lash, Joseph |
Eleanor: The Years Alone |
| McEwan, Ian |
On Chesil Beach |
| Moehringer, J. R. |
The Tender Bar |
| Nattel, Lilian |
The Singing Fire |
| Nemirovsky, Irene |
Suite Française |
| O’Brien, Edna |
The Light of Evening |
| Shriver, Lionel |
We Need To Talk About Kevin |
| Stewart, Rory |
The Places in Between |
| Teresa, Mother |
Come Be My Light |
| Urban, Linda |
Crooked Kind of Perfect |
| Xinran |
Sky Burial |
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November 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Albom, Mitch |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| Courtenay, Bryce |
Power of One |
| DeLillo, Don |
Libra |
| Didion, Joan |
Where I Was From |
| Englander, Nathan |
Ministry of Special Cases |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Hanauer, Cathi (ed.) |
The Bitch in the House |
| Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes were Watching God |
| King, Florence |
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady |
| Kingslover, Barbara |
Animal Dreams |
| Lessing, Doris |
Love Again |
| Maynard, Joyce |
At Home in the World |
| Murakami, Haruki |
After the Quake: Stories |
| Nemirovsky, Irene |
Suite Française |
| Penny, Stef |
Tenderness of Wolves |
| Shriver, Lionel |
Post-Birthday World |
| Stegner, Wallace |
The Spectator Bird |
| Steinbeck, John |
The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Trevor, William |
The Story of Lucy Gault |
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October 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Alderman, Naomi |
Disobedience |
| Amis, Kingsley |
Lucky Jim |
| Austen, Jane |
Northanger Abbey |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
Tortilla Curtain |
| Brennert, Alan |
Moloka’i |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
March |
| Dean, Debra |
The Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Donohue, Keith |
The Stolen Child |
| Haigh, Jennifer |
Mrs. Kimble |
| Hijuelos, Oscar |
The Mambo King Plays Songs of Love |
| Kennedy, William |
Legs |
| Moehringer, J.R. |
The Tender Bar |
| Murakami, Haruki |
After the Quake: Stories |
| Rybczynski, Witold |
A Clearing in the Distance |
| Schwartz, Lynne Sharon |
Disturbances in the Field |
| Shteyngart, Gary |
Absurdistan |
| Tsukiyama, Gail |
Samurai’s Garden |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Slaughterhouse Five |
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September 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
March |
| George, Elizabeth |
For the Sake of Elena |
| Gordon, Mary |
Pearl |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Lamb, Wally |
Couldn’t Keep It To Myself |
| McGovern, Cammie |
Eye Contact |
| Messud, Claire |
The Emperor’s Children |
| Messud, Claire |
The Last Life |
| Moehringer, J.R. |
Tender Bar |
| Niffenegger, Audrey |
Time Traveler’s Wife |
| Smith, Zadie |
On Beauty |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Angle of Repose |
| Yates, Richard |
Revolutionary Road |
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August 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Desai, Kiran |
The Inheritance of Loss |
| O’Brian, Patrick |
Master and Commander |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
Snow |
| Twain, Mark |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Tyler, Anne |
Digging to America |
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July 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Auster, Paul |
Brooklyn Follies |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail |
The Master and Margarita |
| Hijuelos, Oscar |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| Miyamoto, Teru |
Autumn Brocade=Kinshue |
| Reichl, Ruth |
Garlic and Sapphires |
| Roth, Philip |
The Plot Against America |
| Sedaris, David |
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Cat’s Cradle |
| Wilson, Robert |
A Small Death in Lisbon |
| Wolff, Tobias |
Old School |
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June 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Babel, Isaac |
Complete Works of Isaac Babel |
| Butler, Robert Olen |
They Whisper |
| Davis, Jill A. |
Ask Again Later |
| Gaiman, Neil |
American Gods |
| Gien, Pamela |
The Syringa Tree |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
| Larson, Erik |
The Devil in the White City |
| McCall Smith, Alexander |
The Sunday Philosophy Club |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
All the Pretty Horses |
| Munro, Alice |
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories |
| Murphy, Louise |
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
My Name is Red |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
Snow |
| Schine, Cathleen |
She is Me |
| Steinbeck, John |
The Winter of Our Discontent |
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May 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
| Albright, Madeleine |
The Mighty and the Almighty |
| Clark, Robert |
Mr. White’s Confession |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee |
Siser of My Heart |
| Dunant, Sarah |
The Birth of Venus |
| Frayn, Michael |
Copenhagen |
| Kundera, Milant |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Obama, Barack |
Dreams of My Father |
| Saramago, José |
All the Names |
| Saramago, José |
Blindness |
| Stegner, Wallace |
The Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Cat’s Cradle |
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April 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Angelou, Maya |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Auster, Paul |
The Book of Illusions |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
March |
| Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
| Coetzee, J.M. |
Disgrace |
| DuMaurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
| Edwards, Kim |
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter |
| Goodman, Allegra |
Kaaterskill Falls |
| Hardy, Thomas |
The Return of the Native |
| Khadra, Yasmina |
The Swallows of Kabul |
| Mayle, Peter |
A Good Year |
| McBride, James |
The Color of Water |
| McPhee, John |
Basin and Range |
| Irène Nemirovsky |
Suite Française |
| Ozick, Cynthia |
Heir to the Glimmering World |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Gilead |
| Tremain, Rose |
Music and Silence |
| Trevor, William |
The Story of Lucy Gault |
| Whitaker, Robert |
The Mapmaker’s Wife |
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March 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
| Auster, Paul |
The Brooklyn Follies |
| Banville, John |
The Sea |
| Boyd, William |
The Blue Afternoon |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
March |
| Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
| Canin, Ethan |
Carry Me Across the Water |
| Conway, Jill K. |
The Road From Coorain |
| DeBerières, Louis |
Birds Without Wings |
| Desai, Anita |
Clear Light of Day |
| Desai, Anita |
Journey to Ithaca |
| Goldreich, Gloria |
Walking Home |
| Gray, Francine du Plessix |
Them |
| Harr, Jonathan |
The Lost Painting |
| Harrison, Kathryn |
The Kiss |
| Jin, Ha |
Crazed |
| Jong, Erica |
Fear of Flying |
| Maugham, W. Somerset |
Of Human Bondage |
| McCullers, Carson |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| McEwan, Ian |
Saturday |
| Moehringer, J.R. |
The Tender Bar |
| Parker, Robert B. |
Cold Service |
| Roth, Philip |
The Human Stain |
| Zindel, Paul |
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man–in–the–moon Marigolds |
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February 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Austen, Jane |
Northanger Abbey |
| Barnes, Julian |
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Fessler, Ann |
The Girls Who Went Away |
| Frazier, Ian |
On the Rez |
| Fuentes, Carlos |
The Old Gringo |
| Gordon, Mary |
Final Payments |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
| Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Idliby, Ranya |
The Faith Club |
| Jones, Edward P. |
The Known World |
| Lawson, Mary |
Crow Lake |
| Mann, Thomas |
Death in Venice |
| Maynard, Joyce |
At Home in the World |
| McCullough, David G. |
1776 |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
The New Life |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Housekeeping |
| Toibin, Colm |
The Master |
| Truong, Monique T.D. |
The Book of Salt |
| Updike, John |
Rabbit, Run |
| Waldman, Ayelet |
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits |
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January 2007
| Author |
Title |
| Allende, Isabel |
The Infinite Plan |
| Allende, Isabel |
Portrait In Sepia |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
World’s End |
| Danticat, Edwidge |
Breath, Eyes, Memory |
| Doig, Ivan |
Dancing at the Rascal Fair |
| Dunmore, Helen |
The Siege |
| Elderkin, Susan |
Sunset over Chocolate Mountains |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| Forster, E. M. |
A Passage to India |
| Fuller, Alexandra |
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight |
| Greene, Graham |
The Tenth Man |
| Hamilton, Jane |
When Madeline was Young |
| Harrison, Kathryn |
The Kiss |
| Harrison, Kathryn |
The Seal Wife |
| Levy, Andrea |
Small Island |
| Niemi, Mikael |
Popular Music From Vittula |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
Istanbul |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel |
Mayflower |
| Shriver, Lionel |
We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| Silber, Joan |
Lucky Us |
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2006 Choices, by month
December
| Author |
Title |
| Buchan, John |
The Thirty–nine Steps |
| Clark, Mary Higgins |
Kitchen Privileges |
| Dunant, Sarah |
Mapping the Edge |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Fraser, Antonia |
The Warrior Queens |
| Gordimer, Nadine |
The Pickup |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
The Sun Also Rises |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
| Learner, Tobsha |
The Witch of Cologne |
| Lelyveld, Joseph |
Omaha Blues |
| Mahfuz, Najib |
The Beginning and the End |
| Mason, Daniel |
The Piano Tuner |
| Pouncey, Peter R. |
Rules For Old Men Waiting |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Housekeeping |
| Saramago, Jose |
Blindness |
| Sparks, Muriel |
The Finishing School |
| Stewart, Leah |
The Myth of You & Me |
| Tóibín, Colm |
The Blackwater Lightship |
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November 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Doctorow, E.L. |
The March |
| Ilibagiza, Immaculée |
Left to Tell |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
| Jin, Ha |
The Crazed |
| Jones, Edward P. |
The Known World |
| Kerr, Philip |
A German Requiem |
| Krauss, Nicole |
The History of Love |
| Lewis, Sinclair |
Babbitt |
| Obama, Barack |
Dreams From My Father |
| Paley, Grace |
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute |
| Perlman, Elliot |
Seven Types of Ambiguity |
| Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister’s Keeper |
| Salinger, J.D. |
Franny and Zooey |
| Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
| Tyler, Anne |
Digging to America |
| Wallach, Janet |
Seraglio |
| Wallance, Gregory |
Two Men Before the Storm |
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October 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Banville, John |
The Sea |
| Barnes, Julian |
Arthur & George |
| Buchan, John |
The Thirty–nine Steps |
| Chang, Jung |
Wild Swans |
| Cross, Donna Woolfolk |
Pope Joan |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Dearborn, Mary V. |
Mistress of Modernism |
| Didion, Joan |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Constant Princess |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Prodigal Summer |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Lethem, Jonathan |
Motherless Brooklyn |
| Mahfuz, Naguib |
Palace Walk |
| Mann, Thomas |
The Magic Mountain |
| McEwan, Ian |
Saturday |
| Munro, Alice |
Runaway: Stories |
| Roth, Philip |
American Pastoral |
| Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
| Tsukiyama, Gail |
Women of the Silk |
| Vanderbes, Jennifer |
Easter Island |
| Wills, Garry |
What Jesus Meant |
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September 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Barnes, Julian |
Arthur & George |
| De Bernieres, Louis |
Corelli’s Mandolin |
| Gordimer, Nadine |
Get a Life |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
| Lavigne, Michael |
Not Me |
| McEwan, Ian |
Saturday |
| Monette, Paul |
Borrowed Time: an AIDS Memoir |
| Morrison, Toni |
Beloved |
| O’Connor, Flannery |
Everything That Rises Must Converge |
| Ozick, Cynthia |
Heir to the Glimmering World |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
My Name is Red |
| Schlink, Bernhard |
The Reader |
| Shteyngart, Gary |
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook |
| Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
| Stafford, Jean |
Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| Winik, Jay |
April 1865 |
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August 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Chandler, Raymond |
The Long Goodbye |
| Conlon, Edward |
Blue Blood |
| Gladwell, Malcolm |
Blink |
| Japrisot, Sébastien |
A Very Long Engagement |
| Trevor, William |
Felicia’s Journey |
| Weiner, Jennifer |
Goodnight Nobody |
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July 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Brookner, Anita |
The Bay of Angels |
| Burroughs, Augusten |
Dry |
| Didion, Joan |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
| McEwan, Ian |
Saturday |
| Sholokhov, Mikhail |
And Quiet Flows the Don |
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June 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Austen, Jane |
Persuasion |
| Cather, Willa |
My Ántonia |
| Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
| Erdrich, Louise |
The Painted Drum |
| Gill, Anton |
Art Lover |
| Halter, Marek |
Sarah |
| Heller, Zoe |
What Was She Thinking? |
| Hornby, Nick |
A Long Way Down |
| Jones, Edward |
The Known World |
| Kidder, Tracy |
Home Town |
| McEwan, Ian |
Saturday |
| Obejas, Achy |
Days of Awe |
| Reichl, Ruth |
Garlic and Sapphires |
| Roth, Philip |
The Plot Against America |
| Shriver, Lionel |
We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| Twain, Mark |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Cat’s Cradle |
| Austen, Jane |
Persuasion |
| Wood, Monica |
Any Bitter Thing |
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May 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
| Alvarez, Julia |
In the Time of Butterflies |
| Atkinson, Kate |
Case Histories |
| Bellow, Saul |
Seize the Day |
| Cather, Willa |
My Ántonia |
| Faulkner, William |
As I Lay Dying |
| García Márquez, Gabriel |
Memories of My Melancholy Whores |
| Guterson, David |
Our Lady of the Forest |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
| Kluger, Jeffrey |
Splendid Solution |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Ligocka, Roma |
Girl in the Red Coat |
| Lipsyte, Sam |
Home Land |
| McCullough, David G. |
1776 |
| McEwan, Ian |
Saturday |
| Mitchell, Margaret |
Gone with the Wind |
| Ruiz Zafón, Carlos |
Shadow of the Wind |
| Smith, Zadie |
On Beauty |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Crossing to Safety |
| Wilson, Jonathan |
A Palestine Affair |
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April 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Addonizio, Kim |
Little Beauties |
| Austen, Jane |
Pride and Prejudice |
| Bezmozgis, David |
Natasha and Other Stories |
| Capote, Truman |
Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
| Capote, Truman |
In Cold Blood |
| Finney, Jack |
Time and Again |
| García Márquez, Gabriel |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Isaacson, Walter |
Benjamin Franklin |
| Jen, Gish |
The Love Wife |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Mahfouz, Nguib |
Wedding Song |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| Morrison, Toni |
Beloved |
| Oz, Amos |
A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Perrotta, Tom |
Little Children |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Housekeeping |
| Roth, Joseph |
The Tale of the 1002nd Night |
| Russo, Richard |
Straight Man |
| Samuel, Wolfgang |
German Boy |
| Wallach, Janet |
Desert Queen |
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March 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Ali, Monica |
Brick Lane |
| Allende, Isabel |
Daughter of Fortune |
| Borges, Jorge Luis |
Ficciones |
| Didion, Joan |
Play It As It Lays |
| Doctorow, E.L. |
The March |
| Dunant, Sarah |
Mapping the Edge |
| Garcia, Cristina |
Dreaming in Cuban |
| Hamill, Pete |
Downtown, My Manhattan |
| Krauss, Nicole |
The History of Love |
| Lee, Chang Rae |
Aloft |
| Mahfuz, Najib |
Palace Walk |
| Mahfuz, Najib |
Wedding Song |
| Maine, David |
Fallen |
| Meloy, Maile |
Liars and Saints |
| Morgan, Edmund Sears |
Benjamin Franklin |
| Munro, Alice |
Runaway: Stories |
| Murakami, Haruki |
A Wild Sheep Chase |
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
Pale Fire |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
Missing Mom |
| Oz, Amos |
A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Reichl, Ruth |
Garlic and Sapphires |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Gilead |
| Sasson, Jean P. |
Princess |
| Seierstad, Asne |
The Bookseller of Kabul |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis |
Prep |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario |
Death in the Andes |
| Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway |
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February 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Aciman, Andre |
Out of Egypt |
| Bohjalian, Christopher A. |
Before You Know Kindness |
| Cahill, Thomas |
Pope John XXIII |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Everything Is Illuminated |
| GAines, Ernest J. |
A Gathering of Old Men |
| Hornby, Nick |
A Long Way Down |
| Krauss, Nicole |
The History of Love |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter |
Four Spirits |
| Ozick, Cynthia |
Heir to the Glimmering World |
| Pynchon, Thomas |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Samuel, Wolfgang W.E. |
German Boy |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis |
Prep |
| Suberman, Stella |
When It Was Our War |
| Twain, Mark |
Life on the Mississippi |
| Winn, Marie |
Red–Tails in Love |
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January 2006
| Author |
Title |
| Atwood, Margaret |
Alias Grace |
| Bellow, Saul |
Henderson the Rain King |
| Chang, Jung |
Wild Swans |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
The Idiot |
| Feiler, Bruce |
Walking the Bible |
| Greene, Graham |
The Captain and the Enemy |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
| Kafka, Franz |
The Trial |
| Lee, Chang–Rae |
Aloft |
| Lively, Penelope |
The Photograph |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
Family Matters |
| Robinson, Marilynn |
Gilead |
| Rosen, Jonathan |
Joy Comes in the Morning |
| Seierstad, Asne |
The Bookseller of Kabul |
| Shriver, Lionel |
We Need To Talk About Kevin |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Tuck, Lily |
The News From Paraguay |
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2005 Choices, by month
December, 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Albright, Madeleine |
Madam Secretary |
| Cleage, Pearl |
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day |
| Coelho, Paulo |
The Alchemist |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee |
Queen of Bees |
| Faulkner, William |
As I Lay Dying |
| Forster, E.M. |
Howards End |
| Gilman, Susan Jane |
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress |
| Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
| Gur, Batya |
Bethlehem Road Murder |
| Holthe, Tess Uriza |
When the Elephants Dance |
| Jones, Edward |
The Known World |
| Lethem, Jonathan |
Motherless Brooklyn |
| Plath, Sylvia |
The Bell Jar |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Housekeeping |
| Rosner, Bernat |
An Uncommon Friendship |
| Roth, Philip |
The Plot Against America |
| Shirer, William |
20th Century Journey: v. 2 The Nightmare Years |
| Steinbeck, John |
East of Eden |
| Wolitzer, Meg |
The Wife |
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November 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Austen, Jane |
Persuasion |
| Diamant, Anita |
Good Harbor |
| Fast, Howard |
The Immigrants |
| Garcia, Cristina |
Dreaming in Cuban |
| Greer, Andrew Sean |
The Confessions of Max Tivoli |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Small Wonder |
| Lansky, Aaron |
Outwitting History |
| Maugham, W. Somerset |
The Razor’s Edge |
| Mukherjee, Bharati |
Desirable Daughters |
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
Lolita |
| Niffenegger, Audrey |
The Time Traveler’s Wife |
| Ondaatje, Michael |
Anil’s Ghost |
| Oz, Amos |
A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Shaara, Michael |
The Killer Angels |
| Shorto, Russell |
The Island at the Center of the World |
| Shreve, Anita |
The Weight of Water |
| Tuck, Lily |
The News from Paraguay |
| Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich |
Fathers and Sons |
| Warren, Robert Penn |
All the King’s Men |
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October 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Beck, Martha |
Expecting Adam |
| Bellow, Saul |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
March |
| Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Cather, Willa |
My Antonia |
| Dunant, Sarah |
Mapping the Edge |
| Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
| Finney, Jack |
Time and Again |
| Goldberg, Myla |
Bee Season |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
| Kincaid, Jamaica |
The Autobiography of My Mother |
| Larson, Erik |
Devil in the White City |
| Levy, Andrea |
Small Island |
| Mathews, Jay |
Class Struggle |
| O’Faolain, Nuala |
Are You Somebody |
| Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Gilead |
| Roth, Philip |
The Plot Against America |
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September 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Chabon, Michael |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
| Conrad, Joseph |
The Secret Agent |
| Dickens, Charles |
Bleak House |
| Enger, Leif |
Peace Like a River |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Extremely Loud & Extremely Close |
| Fowler, Karen Joy |
The Jane Austen Book Club |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Gildiner, Catherine |
Too Close to the Falls |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
| Leahy, Syrell Rogovin |
Family Ties |
| Lethem, Jonathan |
The Fortress of Solitude |
| Munro, Alice |
Runaway: Stories |
| Noble, Elizabeth |
The Reading Group |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
Blonde |
| Oz, Amos |
A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Rhys, Jean |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Roth, Philip |
The Plot Against America |
| Saint–Exupery, Antoine de |
Wind, Sand and Stars |
| Wolfe, Tom |
I am Charlotte Simmons |
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August 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Dunant, Sarah |
The Birth of Venus |
| Hughes, Langston |
The Best of Simple |
| Jones, Edward P. |
The Known World |
| Kinzer, Stephen |
All the Shah’s Men |
| McCullers, Carson |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| Orlean, Susan |
The Orchid Thief |
| Simenon, Georges |
Maigret and the Yellow Dog |
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July 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Bellow, Saul |
Him With His Foot In His Mouth |
| Bezmozgis, David |
Natasha and Other Stories |
| Blum, Jenna |
Those Who Save Us |
| Danticat, Edwidge |
The Dew Breaker |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–time |
| Leonard, Elmore |
Swag |
| Ruiz Zafon, Carlos |
The Shadow of the Wind |
| Spencer, Scott |
A Ship Made of Paper |
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June 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Ali, Monica |
Brick Lane |
| Bellow, Saul |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Brooks, Geraldine |
Year of Wonders |
| Burgess, Anthony |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Coetzee, J. M. |
Age of Iron |
| Dyja, Thomas |
Awake |
| Esquivel, Laura |
Like Water for Chocolate |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
| Heller, Zoe |
What Was She Thinking? |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
The Remains of the Day |
| Lee, Chang-rae |
Aloft |
| Obama, Barack |
Dreams From My Father |
| Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister’s Keeper |
| Renault, Mary |
The Persian Boy |
| Ruff, Matt |
Set this House in Order |
| Chine, Cathleen |
She Is Me |
| Sebold, Alice |
The Lovely Bones |
| Wolff, Tobias |
Old School |
| Yohoshua, Abraham B. |
A Journey to the End of the Millennium |
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May 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Ali, Monica |
Brick Lane |
| Armstrong, Karen |
The Spiral Staircase |
| Buchan, Elizabeth |
Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman |
| Chesterton, G.K. |
The Man who was Thursday |
| Danticat, Edwidge |
The Dew Breaker |
| Enger, Leif |
Peace Like a River |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Everything is Illuminated |
| Ford, Ford Madox |
The Good Soldier |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
| Japrisot, Sebastien |
A Very Long Engagement |
| Joyce, James |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
Family Matters |
| Roth, Philip |
Goodbye, Columbus |
| Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre |
Building the Earth |
| Toibin, Colm |
The Master |
| Welty, Eudora |
The Optimists Daughter |
| Wharton, Edith |
The Custom of the Country |
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April 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Atkinson, Kate |
Case Histories |
| Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| De Bernières, Louis |
Corelli’s Mandolin |
| Dunant, Sarah |
The Birth of Venus |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
Tender is the Night |
| Fuller, Alexandra |
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Queen’s Fool |
| Haruf, Keith |
Plainsong |
| Hendra, Tony |
Father Joe |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
When We Were Orphans |
| Kalfus, Ken |
Thirst |
| Landers, Ann |
A Life in Letters |
| Mahfuz, Najib |
Palace Walk |
| Nafisi, Azar |
Reading Lolita in Tehran |
| Parker, Robert |
Small Vices |
| Parker, Robert |
Pastime |
| Parker, Robert |
Early Autumn |
| Parker, Robert |
A Catskill Eagle |
| Roth, Henry |
Call It Sleep |
| Russo, Richard |
Mohawk |
| Shapiro, Laura |
Something From the Oven |
| Shreve, Anita |
Sea Glass |
| Tropper, Jonathan |
The Book of Joe |
| Tuck, Lily |
The News from Paraguay |
| Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich |
The Torrents of Spring |
| Updike, John |
Rabbit, Run |
| Wasserstein, Wendy |
The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays |
| Waters, Sarah |
Tipping the Velvet |
| Whitaker, Robert |
The Mapmaker’s Wife |
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March 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Alvarez, Julia |
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
| Butler, Samuel |
The Way of All Flesh |
| Calof, Rachel |
Rachel Calof’s Story |
| Cather, Willa |
Death Come for the Archbishop |
| Cooper, James Fenimore |
The Last of the Mohicans |
| Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
| Greene, Bette |
Summer of My German Soldier |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
| Langer, Adam |
Crossing California |
| Lawson, Mary |
Crow Lake |
| Mahfouz, Najib |
Palace Walk |
| Niffenegger, Audrey |
The Time Traveler’s Wife |
| Siddons, Anne Rivers |
Islands |
| Sontag, Susan |
In America |
| Stringer, Lee |
Sleepaway School |
| Tyler, Anne |
The Amateur Marriage |
| Welty, Eudora |
The Optimists Daughter |
| Whitaker, Robert |
The Mapmaker’s Wife |
| Yates, Richard |
Easter Parade |
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February 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Albom, Mitch |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| Austen, Jane |
Pride and Prejudice |
| Brooks, David |
Bobos in Paradise |
| Buchan, Elizabeth |
Revenge of the Middle–aged Woman |
| Coetzee, J. M. |
Elizabeth Costello |
| Delman, Carmit |
Burnt Bread and Chutney |
| Dubner, Stephen J. |
Turbulent Souls |
| Gornick, Vivian |
Fierce Attachments |
| 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 |
| Liss, David |
A Conspiracy of Paper |
| Morgan, Marlo |
Mutant Message From Down Under |
| Nguyen, Kien |
The Unwanted |
| Otsuka, Julie |
When the Emperor Was Divine |
| Patchett, Ann |
The Patron Saint of Liars |
| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft |
Frankenstein |
| Tuck, Lily |
The News From Paraguay |
| Wells, H. G. |
The Invisible Man |
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January 2005
| Author |
Title |
| Allende, Isabel |
Portrait In Sepia |
| Brookhiser, Richard |
Alexander Hamilton, American |
| Conway, Jill K. |
The Road From Coorain |
| De Bernières, Louis |
Birds Without Wings |
| Dickens, Charles |
David Copperfield |
| Dunant, Sarah |
The Birth of Venus |
| Gogol, Nikolai |
Dead Souls |
| Harouf, Kent |
Eventide |
| Heaney, Seamus, trans. |
Beowulf |
| Hillerman, Tony |
A Thief of Time |
| Jile, Paulette |
Enemy Women |
| Kemelman, Harry |
Wednesday the Rabbi Slept Late |
| Larson, Erik |
Devil in the White City |
| Lee, Chang–rae |
Aloft |
| London, Joan |
Gilgamesh |
| Maguire, Gregory |
Wicked |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
| Maupin, Armistead |
The Night Listener |
| Murdoch, Iris |
Under the Net |
| Pye, Michael |
The Pieces From Berlin |
| Sasson, Jean P. |
Princess |
| Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn |
| Steinbeck, John |
The Moon Is Down |
| Tyler, Anne |
The Amateur Marriage |
| Welty, Eudora |
The Optimist’s Daughter |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2002 Choices, by month
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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