Book Group Books
This is a listing of all of the books we've read in my book group since 1990. There are a few blank months in the early years where we can't remember what we read. We almost always take July and December off, for vacation reasons. Gaps in the later months just reflect everyone's busy schedules and our older, more relaxed attitude.
| Year | Month | Title | Author |
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| 2009 | October | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| September | The Almost Moon | Alice Sebold | |
| August | South of Broad | Pat Conroy | |
| May | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | |
| April | Waiting | Ha Jin | |
| March | People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks | |
| February | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery and Alison Anderson | |
| 2008 | November | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates |
| October | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | |
| September | Whistling Season | Ivan Doig | |
| August | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows | |
| June | Triangle | Katharine Weber | |
| May | Nine Stories | J.D. Salinger | |
| April | In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick | |
| February | March | Geraldine Brooks | |
| January | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 2007 | November | Freakonomics | Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner |
| October | I Am the Messenger | Marcus Zusak | |
| September | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | |
| August | The Last Canyon | John Vernon | |
| June | Water for Elephants | Sarah Gruen | |
| May | Leonardo's Swans | Karen Essex | |
| March | The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak | |
| January | The City of Falling Angels | John Berendt | |
| 2006 | November | Running with Scissors | Augusten Burroughs |
| October | The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards | |
| September | Plain Truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| August | The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | |
| June | The Dante Club | Matthew Pearl | |
| May | Thank You for Smoking | Christopher Buckley | |
| April | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | |
| March | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | |
| February | The Sea | John Banville | |
| January | Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World | Joanna Weaver | |
| 2005 | November | French Women Don't Get Fat | Mireille Guiliano |
| October | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | |
| September | Small Island | Andrea Levy | |
| August | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| June | Empire Falls | Richard Russo | |
| May | Educating Alice | Alice Steinbach | |
| April | The Dogs of Babel | Carolyn Parkhurst | |
| March | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | |
| February | The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard | |
| January | The Birth of Venus | Sarah Dunant | |
| 2004 | November | I Am Madame X | Gioria Diliberto |
| October | The House of Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| September | Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi | |
| August | Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks | |
| June | Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller | |
| May | The Art of Mending | Elizabeth Berg | |
| April | The Piano Tuner | Daniel Mason | |
| March | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
| February | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| January | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | |
| 2003 | November | East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| October | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | |
| September | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | |
| August | Original Sin | P.D. James | |
| June | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |
| May | Where River Turns to Sky | Gregg Kleiner | |
| April | Sea Glass | Anita Shreve | |
| March | Good Poems | Garrison Keillor | |
| February | Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| January | Possession | A.S. Byatt | |
| 2002 | November | Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| October | Blessings | Anna Quindlen | |
| September | Sea Biscuit: An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand | |
| August | In the Fall | Jeffrey Lent | |
| May | The Human Stain | Philip Roth | |
| April | Back When We Were Grownups | Anne Tyler | |
| March | The Bird Artist | Howard Norman | |
| February | The Last Time They Met | Anita Shreve | |
| January | Skipping Christmas | John Grisham | |
| 2001 | November | Outlander | Diana Gabaldon |
| October | The Sunflower | Simon Wiesenthal | |
| September | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | |
| August | Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | |
| June | The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | |
| May | Girl with the Pearl Earring Girl in Hyacinth Blue |
Tracy Chevalier Susan Vreeland |
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| April | The Dress Lodger | Sheri Holman | |
| March | Corelli's Mandolin | Louis DeBernieres | |
| February | Gloria | Keith Maillard | |
| January | House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | |
| 2000 | November | The Red Tent | Anita Diamante |
| October | My Antonia | Willa Cather | |
| September | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | |
| August | First Loves | ed. by Carmela Ciuraru | |
| June | Cloud Chamber | Michael Dorris | |
| May | Running the Amazon | Joe Kane | |
| April | Left Behind | Tim LeHaye | |
| March | Elegy for Iris | John Bayliss | |
| February | Cliff Walk | Don Snyder | |
| January | Mutant Message Down Under | Marlo Morgan | |
| 1999 | November | The All of It | Jeanette Haien |
| October | A Widow for One Year | John Irving | |
| September | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| August | The Inn at Lake Devine | Elinor Lipman | |
| July | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | |
| June | Philistines at the Hedgerow | Steven Gaines | |
| May | Midwives | Chris Bohjalian | |
| April | Love of a Good Woman | Alice Munro | |
| March | Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| February | The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton |
Jane Smiley | |
| January | The Awakening | Kate Chopin | |
| 1998 | November | Piano Lessons | Noah Adams |
| October | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | |
| September | Memory of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | |
| August | Here on Earth | Alice Hoffman | |
| June | Red Scarf Girl | Ji Li Jiang | |
| May | Cup of Tea | Amy Ephron | |
| April | Snow in August | Pete Hamill | |
| March | Lost and Found | Roberta Israeloff | |
| February | Paula | Isabel Allende | |
| January | River at the End of the World | Janet Peery | |
| 1997 | November | This Year Will be Different | Maeve Binchey |
| October | Contact | Carl Sagan | |
| September | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | |
| August | The Color of Water | James McBride | |
| July | Killer Angels | Michael Sharra | |
| June | Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells | |
| May | Shooting the Boh | Tracy Johnson | |
| April | Civil Action | Jon Harr | |
| March | She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb | |
| February | The Book of Ruth | Jane Hamilton | |
| January | In the Lake of the Woods | Tim O'Brien | |
| 1996 | October | Snow Falling On Cedars | David Guterson |
| September | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | |
| August | Dance on Water | Laura Lynn Leffers | |
| June | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | |
| May | Coyote Blue | Christopher Moore | |
| April | Possessing the Secret of Joy | Alice Walker | |
| March | Having Our Say (The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years) |
Sarah L. Delaney & A. Elizabeth Delaney |
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| February | Fatherland | Robert Harris | |
| January | The Longings of Women | Marge Piercy | |
| 1995 | November | Barbara Bush, A Memoir | Barbara Bush |
| October | Now You See Her | Whitney Otto | |
| September | One True Thing | Anna Quindlen | |
| August | The Music Room | Dennis McFarland | |
| July | A Map of the World | Jane Hamilton | |
| June | The Chamber | John Grisham | |
| May | The Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood | |
| April | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |
| March | The Wings of a Falcon | Cynthia Voight | |
| February | Composing a Life | Mary Catherine Bateson | |
| January | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen | |
| 1994 | November | Madame Bovary | Gustav Flabert |
| October | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | |
| September | Pigs in Heaven Bean Trees |
Barbara Kingsolver | |
| August | Waiting to Exhale | Terry McMillan | |
| July | The Face on the Milk Carton Black Water |
Carol Cooney Joyce Carol Oates |
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| June | The Golden Noetbook | Doris Lessing | |
| May | A Book of Angels | Sophy Burnham | |
| April | Trinity | Leon Uris | |
| March | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | |
| February | My Mother My Self | Nancy Friday | |
| January | The Group | Mary McCarthy | |
| 1993 | November | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| October | Beloved | Toni Morrison | |
| September | You Just Don't Understand | Deborah Tannen | |
| August | Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner | |
| July | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | |
| June | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
| May | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | |
| April | Backlash | Susan Faludi | |
| March | The Road to Coorain | Jill Conway | |
| February | How to Make an American Quilt | Whitney Otto | |
| January | Malcolm X | Alex Huxley | |
| 1992 | November | The Women's Room | Marilyn French |
| October | Yellow Raft on Blue Water | Michael Dorris | |
| September | The Education of Little Tree | Forrest Carter | |
| August | Seat of the Soul | Gary Zurkov | |
| June | Outer Banks | Anne Rivers Siddon | |
| May | Buffalo Girls | Larry McMurtry | |
| April | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | |
| February | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | |
| January | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | |
| 1991 | November | Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy |
| October | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | |
| September | Company of Women | Mary Gordon | |
| August | Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands | J. Armado | |
| July | The Thin Woman | Lois Cannell | |
| June | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| May | On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison | |
| April | The Dollmaker | Harriet Arnow | |
| March | Agnes Grey | Anne Bronte | |
| February | A Lost Lady | Willa Cather | |
| January | The Haj | Leon Uris | |
| 1990 | November | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe |
Fannie Flagg |
| October | Postcards from the Edge | Carrie Fisher | |
| September | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | |
| August | Cider House Rules | John Irving | |
| July | Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler | |
| June | West With the Night | Beryl Markham | |
| May | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | |
| April | Cat's Eye | Margaret Atwood |