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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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