This is a list of books that we have read since mid-2002.
Book |
Author | Date |
Location |
The Weird Sisters | Brown, Eleanor | November 2012 | The Dancing Elephant for dinner |
Out Stealing Horses | Petterson, Per | October 2012 | Jan's house (sort of!) |
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Haidt, Jonathan | August 2012 | Joyce's house |
This Life Is in Your Hands | Coleman, Melissa | July 2012 | Martha's house |
Clara and Mr. Tiffany | Vreeland, Susan | June 2012 | Susan's house |
The Art of Racing in the Rain | Stein, Garth | April 2012 | Kim's house |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Hillenbrand, Laura | March 2012 | Mary Jane's house |
Little Dorrit | Dickens, Charles | February 2012 | Kon Asian Bistro for dinner |
Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife ... plus a group reading of A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas |
Miller, Lisa | December 2011 | Kathy's house |
A Visit from the Goon Squad | Egan, Jennifer | October 2011 | Mary Jane's house |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Foer, Jonathan Safran | August 2011 | Ricetta's in Falmouth for dinner |
The Well-Dressed Ape | Holmes, Hannah | July 2011 | Kon Asian Bistro for dinner |
Blonde | Oates, Joyce Carol | June 2011 |
Martha's house |
Cutting for Stone | Verghese, Abraham | May 2011 | Joyce's house |
Either The Glass Castle or Half Broke Horses | Walls, Jeannette | April 2011 | Siam Square for dinner |
Purple Hibiscus | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | February 2011 | Kathy's house |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Ford, Jamie | January 2011 | The Pepper Club for dinner |
The Corrections | Franzen, Jonathan | November 2010 | Susan's house |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Barbery, Muriel | October 2010 | Rita's house |
Here If You Need Me | Braestrup, Kate | September 2010 | Siam Square for dinner |
Any book by James Michener | Michener, James | July/Aug 2010 | Joyce's house |
Any book by Lisa See | See, Lisa | June 2010 | Panda Garden for dinner |
The Tenderness of Wolves | Penney, Stef | May 2010 | Kathy's house |
Silence | Endo, Shusaku | April 2010 | Siam Square for dinner |
Satanic Verses | Rushdie, Salman | February 2010 | Siam Square for dinner |
The Book Thief | Zusak, Markus | January 2010 | Siam Square for dinner |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Shaffer, Ann Marie | December 2009 | Rita's house |
The Women | Boyle, T.C. | October 2009 | Siam Square for dinner |
Loving Frank | Horan, Nancy | ||
The Uncommon Reader | Bennett, Alan | September 2009 | Siam Square for dinner |
The Year of Living Biblically | Jacobs, A.J. | July 2009 | Martha's house |
Olive Kitteridge | Strout, Elizabeth | June 2009 | Siam Square for dinner |
Mister Pip | Jones, Lloyd | May 2009 | Susan's house |
Three Cups of Tea |
Mortenson, Greg Relin, David Oliver |
April 2009 | Tortilla Flat for dinner |
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Roach, Mary | Februay 2009 | Kathy's house |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Chabon, Michael | January 2009 | Siam Square for dinner |
Eat, Pray, Love | Gilbert, Elizabeth | November 2008 | Siam Square for dinner |
The Madonnas of Leningrad | Dean, Debra | October 2008 | Frog & Turtle for dinner |
The Island | Hislop, Victoria | July 2008 | Joyce's house (Greek food!) |
Gift from the Sea - plus another related book of your choice |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow | May 2008 | Kathy's house |
Windswept | Chase, Mary Ellen | April 2008 | Susan's house |
Bufflehead Sisters | DeLois, Patricia J. | March 2008 | Tortilla Flat for dinner |
Atonement | McEwan, Ian | January 2008 | RiRa's for dinner / Movie at Nickelodeon |
The Jane Austen Book Club | Fowler, Karen Joy | November 2007 | Movie at The Movies on Exchange |
The Witch of Cologne | Learner, Tobsha | September 2007 | Kathy's house |
The Other Boleyn Girl | Gregory, Philippa | July 2007 | Joyce's house / DVD of movie |
Pope Joan | Cross, Donna | May 2007 | |
On Beauty | Smith, Zadie | April 2007 | |
The Devil in the White City | Larson, Eric | February 2007 | Kim's house |
One Thousand White Women | Fergus, Jim | December 2006 | |
Running with Scissors | Burroughs, Augusten | November 2006 | Movie in Falmouth/Discussion at Falmouth House of Pizza |
Star of the Sea | O'Connor, Joseph | September 2006 | Ruth's house |
Ahab's Wife | Naslund, Sena Jeter | July 2006 | |
Animals in Translation | Grandin, Temple | May 2006 | Joyce's house |
The Power of One | Courtenay, Bryce | April 2006 | |
Night | Wiesel, Elie | February 2006 | Jan's house |
The Kite Runner | Hosseini, Khaled | January 2006 | Jan's house |
Year of Wonders | Brooks, Geraldine | December 2005 | |
The Time Traveler's Wife | Niffenegger, Audrey | September 2005 | |
Under the Banner of Heaven | Krakauer, Jon | May 2005 | Joyce's house |
We Need to Talk About Kevin | Shriver, Lionel | March 2005 | Jan's house |
The Surgeon | Gerritsen, Tess | February 2005 | |
Crossing to Safety | Stegner, Wallace | November 2004 | |
A Prayer for Owen Meany | Irving, John | September 2004 | |
Life of Pi | Martel, Yann | June 2004 | |
The Diagnosis | Lightman, Alan | May 2004 | |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
Fadiman, Anne |
March 2004 | Jan's house |
Bel Canto | Patchett, Ann | January 2004 | |
Uncle Tungsten | Sacks, Oliver | December 2003 | Jan's house |
The Eyre Affair | Fforde, Jasper | November 2003 | Ruth's house |
The Da Vinci Code | Brown, Dan | September 2003 | |
Seabiscuit | Hillenbrand, Laura | August 2003 | Conundrum's in Freeport ? |
The Secret Life of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk | June 2003 | |
Another "Ripley" book of your choice | Highsmith, Patricia | April 2003 | |
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Highsmith, Patricia | January 2003 | Donna's house / DVD of movie afterwards |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Chabon, Michael | December 2002 | |
The Tipping Point | Gladwell, Malcolm | October 2002 | |
Empire Falls | Russo, Richard | September 2002 | |
The Phantom Tollbooth | Juster, Norton | August 2002 | Tortilla Flat |