Jan.                 Digging to America Anne Tyler F

Feb.                 Runaway Ann Munro F/Short Stories

Mar.                Arthur & George Julian Barnes F

Apr.                 Terrorist John Updike F

May                 Black Swan Green David Mitchell F

June               The Photograph Penelope Lively F

July                 Talk Talk T. C. Boyle F

Aug.                Montana 1948 Larry Watson F

Sept.               Rise and Shine Anna Quindlen F

Oct.                 Amsterdam Ian McEwan F

Nov.                Ethan Frome Edith Wharton F

Dec.                TBA

Jan.                 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi NF

Feb.                Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon F

Mar.                Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro F

Apr.                 The Devil in the White City Erik Larson NF

May                 The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini F

June               Saturday Ian McEwan F

July                 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer F

Aug.                The Plot Against America Philip Roth F

Sept.               The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis NF

Oct.                 Intuition Allegra Goodman F

Nov.                Annie John Jamaica Kincaid F

Dec.                On Beauty Zadie Smith F

Jan.                 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd F

Feb.                The Piano Tuner Daniel Mason F

Mar.                The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty F

Apr.                 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom F

May                 A Map of the World Jane Hamilton F

June               The Orchid Thief Susan Orlean NF

July                 Blindness Jose Saramago F

Aug.                The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri F

Sept.               The Color of Water by James McBride NF/MEMOIR

Oct.                 Travels with Charley John Steinbeck NF

Nov.                Bee Season Myla Goldberg F

Dec.                Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver F

 

Jan.                 Empire Falls Richard Russo F

Feb.                The Honk and Holler Opening Soon Billie Letts F

Mar.                Bel Canto Ann Patchett F

Apr.                 Jazz Toni Morrison F

May                 The Fig Eater by Jody Shields F

June               Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler

July                 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee F

Aug.                Three Junes Julia Glass F

Sept.               Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie F

Oct.                 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold F

Nov.                Life of Pi Yann Martel F

Dec.                Larry’s Party Carol Shields F

Jan.                 Theophilus North, Thornton Wilder F

Feb.                The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger F

Mar.                On The Road, Jack Kerouac F

Apr                  1984 George Orwell, F

May                 The Underpainter Jane Urquhart, F

June               A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking NF

July                 Girl with the Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier F

August            Charming Billy Alice McDermott F

Sept.               Unless Carol Shields F

Oct.                 Atonement Ian McEwan F

Nov.                Plainsong Kent Haruf F

Dec.                Waiting Ha Jin F

Jan.                 Mr. Phillips, John Lancaster F

Feb.                A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss F

Mar.                Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje F

Apr.                 House of Mirth, Edith Wharton F

May                 Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert F

June               Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson F

July                 Lying Awake, Mark Salzman F

Aug.                The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway F

Sept.               The Human Stain, Philip Roth F

Oct.                 White Teeth Zadie Smith F

Nov.                Make Believe, Joanna Scott F

Dec.                American Appetites, Joyce Carol Oates F

 

Jan.                 To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf F

Feb.                 The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes F

Mar.                Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat F

Apr.                 Consider This, Senora, Harriet Doerr F

May                 Mama Day, Gloria Naylor F

June               Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro F

July                 Middle Kingdom, Andrea Barrett F

Aug.                The Pull of the Moon, Elizabeth Berg F

Sept.               An Equal Music, Vikram Seth F

Oct.                 While I Was Gone, Sue Miller F

Nov.                White Oleander, Janet Fitch F

Dec.                Longitude, Dava Sobel NF

Jan:                Death in Summer, by William Trevor F

Feb.:               House of Splendid Isolation, by Edna O’Brien F

Mar.:              The God of Small Things, by Ayrundahti Roy F

April:              The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink F

May:               House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III, F

June:              The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx F

July:                The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck F

Aug.:               Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee F

Sept.:             The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F

Oct.:                My Son’s Story, Nadine Gordimer, F

Nov.:               The Hours, Michael Cunningham F

Dec.:              The Gift of Stones, Jim Crace F

Jan.:               A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons F

Feb.:                The Book Shop, Penelope Fitzgerald F

Mar.:               The Education of Harriet Hatfield, May Sarton F

April:               The Liars’ Club, by Mary Karr, NF

May:                Nice Work and Small World, David Lodge F

June:               Bessie’s Violin, by Irene Flum Galvin F/SH. ST. & Bud, ONE ACT PLAY by Tom Galvin

local authors attended and read their works

July:                 A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines F

Aug.:                no mtg.; Library closed for renovation

Sept.:              no mtg.; Library closed for renovation

Oct.:                The Awakening, by Kate Chopin F (met in Town Courts!

Nov.:                no meeting; Learning Center not ready (no Town room available)

Dec.:               The Manikin, by Joanna Scott F

Jan.:               Nobody’s Fool, Richard Russo F

Feb.:               The Old Patagonian Express, Paul Theroux NF

Mar.:              Original Sin, P. D. James F/MYS

April:              Snake’s Daughter: Gail Hosking Gilberg BIO local author attended

May:               Temporary Shelter, Mary Gordon F/SHORT STORIES

June:              Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood F

July:                Oh! What a Paradise it Seems, John Cheever F

Aug.:               Celebration of 150 Years of Women’s Rights/Women Writers

Sept.:              Blood and Volts, Thom Metzger, NF local author attended

Oct.:                Tale of a Grandfather, Bruce Sweet F/SH ST local author attended

Nov.:               The Embrace, Steve Street F/SH ST local author attended

Dec.:               The Love Letter, Cathleen Schin, F

Jan.:               The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields F

Feb.:               The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway NF/BIO

Mar.:               Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Burns F

April:               Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner F

May:                Typical American, Gish Jen F

June:              In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez F

July:                CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders local author attended F          

Aug.:                Lies of Silence, Brian Moore F

Sept.:              The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken F

Oct.:                The Tenth Man, Graham Greene F

Nov.:                Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner F

Dec.:               Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller, Jr. SF

Jan.:               Painted Lady, Stephen Wilcox local author attended MYS

Feb.:  :            Beggars of Spain, Nancy Kress (local author attended SF

March:            Silent Witness, Mary Germano local author attended F/SUSP

April:               Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett local author attended F

May:                Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons F

June:              Blackwater Spirits, Miriam Grace Monfredo local author attended HIST. FICTION

July:                Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter F Hoeg F

Aug:                People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck NF

Sept:               The Cunning Man, Robinson Davies F

Oct:                 The Alienist, Caleb Carr F

Nov.::              Gold—The Final Science Fiction Collection, Isaac SF Asimov

Dec.:              All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy F

January:         Possession, A.S. Byatt F

February:       Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris F

March:            The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje F

April:               Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod, Gary Paulsen NF/BIO

2 sled dogs and their 2 trainers/human companions attended

May:                Beloved, Toni Morrison F

June:              Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough F

July:                A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley F

August:          Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston NF/BIO

Sept:               Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich F

Oct:                 A Cooler Climate, Zena Collier local author attended F

Nov.:               Breathing Water, Thomas Gavin local author attended F

Dec.:              All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy F