Adult Book Discussion Archive

2009

Monday

• Mister Pip (LLoyd Jones)
• Away (Amy Bloom)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Maggie O'Farrell)
• Identical Strangers (Paula Bernstein)
• Can't Wait to Get to Heaven (Fannie Flagg)
• The Faith Club (Ranya Idliby)
• The Attack (Yasmina Khadra)
• The Boy on the Bus (Deborah Schupack)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblewski)
• The Ghost at the Table (Suzanne Berne)
• Finn (Jon Clinch)
  

Tuesday

• The Tenderness of Wolves (Stef Penney)
• Luncheon of the Boating Party (Susan Vreeland)
• Ireland (Frank Delaney)
• Thunderstruck (Erik Larson)
• The Whistling Season (Ivan Doig)
• My Life in France (Julia Child)
  
• Change of Heart (Jodi Picoult)
  
• The Secret Supper (Javier Sierra)
  
• The Last Days of Dogtown (Anita Diamant)
  
• The Lace Reader (Brunonia Barry)
  
• The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
  
• Loving Frank (Nancy Horan)
  

Booked for Lunch

• Identical Strangers (Paula Bernstein)
  
• Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
  
• Run (Ann Patchett)
  
• Maisie Dobbs (Jacqueline Winspear)
  
• Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)
• One Thousand White Women (Jim Fergus)
• Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
• Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
• The Glass Castle (Jeanette Walls)
• The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
• Wish You Well (David Baldacci)
• The Shack (William P. Young)
  

2008

• Arc of Justice (Kevin Boyle)
• The Namesake (Jumpha Lahiri)
  
• Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
  
• Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
  
• Father Joe (Tony Hendra)
  
• Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards)
  
• Thunderstruck (Erik Larson)
  
• Digging to America (Anne Tyler)
  
• The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
  
• Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut)
  
• Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
  
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
  

2007

• The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
• I Was Amelia Earhart (Jane Mendelsohn)
• My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
• Deafening (Frances Itani)
• The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
• Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Michael Dorris)
• Possession (A.S. Byatt)
• The Emancipator's Wife (Barbara Hambly)
• Five Quarters of an Orange (Jane Harris)
• Saturday (Ian McEwan)
• A Bell for Adano (John Hersey)
• Hotel du Lac (Anita Brookner)

2006

• Light on Snow (Anita Shreve)
• White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
• The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (Thomas Lynch)
• One Thousand White Women (Jim Fergus)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
• Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
• The Water Dancers (Terry Gamble)
• The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Rebecca Wells)
• In the Country of the Young (Lisa Carey)
• Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (Dean Bakapoulos)
• The Samurai's Garden (Gail Tsukiyama)

2005

• Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton) 
• The Dive from Clausen's Pier (Ann Packer) 
• The Virgin Blue (Tracy Chevalier) 
• The Life of Pi (Yann Martel) 
• The Story of Lucy Gault (William Trevor) 
• The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson) 
• The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather) 
• Good in Bed (Jennifer Weiner) 
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) 
• Madeleine's Ghost (Robert Girardi) 
• Moon Tiger (Penelope Lively) 
• The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

2004

• A Room of One’s Own (Virginia Woolf)
• Enduring Love (Ian McEwan)
• Back When We Were Grownups (Anne Tyler)
• Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)
• Trans-Sister Radio (Chris Bohjalian)
• The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
• Desirable Daughters (Bharati Mukherjee)
• Bel Canto (Anne Patchett)
• Second Hand (Michael Zadoorian)
• Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)
• The Giant’s House (Elizabeth McCracken)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time (Mark Haddon)

2003

• A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
• The Feast of Love (Charles Baxter)
• Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
• An Unquiet Mind (Kay Redfield Jamison)
• Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Blue Diary (Alice Hoffman)
• A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
• Bee Season (Myla Goldberg)
• How to Be Good (Nick Hornby)
• Niagara Falls All Over Again (Elizabeth McCracken)
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie)

2002

• Expecting Adam (Martha Beck)
• While I Was Gone (Sue Miller)
• Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver)
• House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus)
• The Robber Bride (Margaret Atwood)
• Plain Truth (Jodi Picoult)
• Disobedience (Jane Hamilton)
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
• The Twins (Tessa de Loo)
• Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
• The Liar’s Club (Mary Karr)
• The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)

2001

• The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
• Amy and Isabelle (Elizabeth Strout)
• Princess: The True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Jean Sasson)
• The Drowning People (Richard Mason)
• I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb)
• Kaaterskill Falls (Allegra Goodman)
• Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! (Fanny Flagg)
• Breach of Promise (Anne Perry)
• Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Amanda Foreman)
• City of Light (Lauren Belfer)
• The Binding Chair (Kathryn Harrison)
• The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

2000

• Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
• In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez)
• The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)
• Pope Joan (Donna Woolfolk Cross)
• Midwives (Chris Bohjalian)
• The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
• Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
• Where the Heart Is (Billie Letts)
• The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
• The Music Lesson (Katharine Weber)
• Life After Life (Raymond Moody)
• The Tale of the Body Thief (Anne Rice)

1999

• She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
• The Witchfinder (Loren Estleman)
• The Crystal Cave (Mary Stewart)
• These Is My Words (Nancy Turner)
• The Deep End of the Ocean (Jaquelyn Mitchard)
• The Glass Lake (Maeve Binchy)
• Open Secrets (Alice Munro)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
• The Education of Little Tree (Forrest Carter)
• The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
• Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
• Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch Albom)

1998

• Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)
• No Ordinary Time (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
• Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast (Bill Richardson)
• Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
• Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
• The Day After Roswell (Philip Corso)
• One for the Money (Janet Evanovich)
• The Full Catastrophe (David Carkeet)
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
• The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)

1997

• Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
• A Civil Action (Jonathan Harr)
• Beach Music (Pat Conroy)
• Moving Violations (John Hockenberry)
• Blue Hearts (Jim Lehrer)
• The Tortilla Curtain (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
• The Wedding (Dorothy West)
• Leaving Cold Sassy (Olive Ann Burns)
• Range of Motion (Elizabeth Berg)
• Postmortem (Patricia Cornwell)
• Notes From a Small Island (Bill Bryson)
• The Grass Dancer (Susan Power)

1996

• Mutant Message From Down Under (Marlo Morgan)
• Turtle Moon (Alice Hoffman)
• Moo (Jane Smiley)
• The Lyre of Orpheus (Robinson Davies)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
• The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
• Crossing to Safety (Wallace Stegner)
• Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler)
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
• Waiting to Exhale (Terry McMillan)
• Lieberman's Thief (Stuart Kaminsky)
• The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)

1995

• Seneca Falls Inheritance (Miriam Monfredo)
• The Road From Coorain (Jill Ker Conway)
• Maybe the Moon (Amistead Maupin)
• Masquerade (William Kienzle)
• A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines)
• Thank You for Smoking (Christopher Buckley)
• River God (Wilbur Smith)
• The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
• Native Tongue (Carl Hiaasen)
• She Walks These Hills (Sharyn McCrumb)
• The Harbinger Effect (S.K. Wolf)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

1994

• The Republic of Love (Carol Shields)
• The Kitchen God's Wife (Amy Tan)
• Devil's Night (Ze'ev Chafets)
• Mysteries by Sue Grafton
• The Mosquito Coast (Paul Theroux)
• The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• Three Women at the Water's Edge (Nancy Thayer)
• The Dollmaker (Hariette Arnow)
• A Night to Remember and The Night Lives On (Walter Lord)
• Having Our Say (Sadie and Bessie Delaney)
• The City Boy (Herman Wouk)
• Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (George Will)

1993

• Mysteries by Margaret Truman
• The Water Is Wide (Pat Conroy)
• Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns)
• Searching for Caleb (Anne Tyler)
• Fatherland (Robert Harris)
• Into the Blue (Robert Goddard)
• Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
• London Spring (Valerie Avery)
• Raney (Clyde Edgerton)
• Crooked Tree (Robert C. Wilson)
• Elmore Leonard's Detroit mysteries
• Short stories by O. Henry

1992

• Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
• Boy's Life (Robert McCammon)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
• The Loon Feather (Iola Fuller)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
• Titles about the assassination of JFK
• A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
• Replay (Ken Grimwood)
• 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (Homero Aridjis)
• Beloved (Toni Morrison)