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Join us
on each month. Please check for dates.
Books are available through the
Monroe County Library System.
Adults and teens are welcome to
read the books
and join the discussions.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of
BML.
F =
Fiction; MYS = Mystery; SF = Science Fiction; NF = Non-Fiction; BIO =
Biography/Autobiography
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2012
- Jan
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Tender
is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald F
- Feb. Tinkers
Paul Harding F
- Mar
The Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean F
("If All of Rochester Read the Same Book...")
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2011
Jan .
American
Rust Philipp Meyer F
- Feb. The
Good Thief Hannah Tinti F
("If All of Rochester Read the Same Book...")
- Mar.
The Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore F
- Apr
Tortilla Curtain T. C. Boyle F
- May
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout F
- June
The
Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa F
- July
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann F
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Aug
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson F
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Sept
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery F
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Oct
Lord of Misrule Jaimy
Gordon F
- Nov.
Little Bee Chris Cleave F
- Dec
Great House Nicole Kraus F
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2010
Jan.
The
Call of The Wild Jack London (MCLS Big Read Selection) F
- Feb.
People of the Book Geraldine Brooks F
- Mar. Bel
Canto Ann Patchett F
("If All of Rochester Read the Same Book...")
- Apr.
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson F
- May
A
Person of Interest Susan Choi F
- June
The Beautiful Things that
Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mingestu F
- July
My Antonia Willa Cather F
- Aug
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin F
- Sept
Mudbound
Hillary Jordan F
- Oct
The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien F
(Writers & Books' The Big Read)Nov
The Piano Teacher Janice Y. K. Lee F
- Dec.
Solar Ian McEwan
F
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2009
Jan..
Skinner's
Drift Lisa Fugard F
- Feb. America America Ethan Canin F
- Mar.
Jim
the Boy Tony Early F
(Writers & Books' The Big Read)
- Apr. Theft Peter Carey F
- May
Last
Night at the Lobster Stewart O’Nan
F
- June The
Outcast Sadie Jones F
- July Unaccustomed
Earth Jhumpa Lahiri
F
(short stories)
- Aug The Plague of Doves Louise Erdrich F
- Sept The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud F
- Oct
Prose and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
(Writers & Books' THE BIG READ)
- Nov The Poe Shadow Matthew Pearl F
- Dec Crow Lake
Mary Lawson F
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2008
Jan..
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier Ann Packer
F
- Feb. Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky F
- Mar.
Hope
and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila Lalami F (If All of Rochester Read
the Same Book...)
- Apr.
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury F (Monroe County Library System: The
Big Read)
- May
Fahrenheit 451
movie and discussion
- June
The Sea John Banville F
- July
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Kim Edwards F
- Aug. Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje F
- Sept. The
Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai F
- Oct. The
Shawl
Cynthia Ozick F (Writers & Books' The Big Read)
- Nov. Water
for Elephants Sara Gruen F
- Dec. My
Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult F
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2007 |
- 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
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Aug.
Montana 1948
Larry Watson F
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Sept. Rise and Shine
Anna Quindlen F
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Oct. Amsterdam Ian
McEwan F
- Nov.
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton F
- Dec.
The Accidental
Ali Smith F
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2006 |
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- 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
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2005 |
- 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
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2004 |
- 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
Jody Shields F
- June
Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler F
- 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
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2003 |
- 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
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2002 |
- 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
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2001 |
- 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
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2000 |
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Jan:
Death in Summer, William Trevor F
Feb.:
House of Splendid Isolation Edna O’Brien F
Mar.:
The God of
Small Things Ayrundahti Roy F
April: The Reader Bernhard Schlink F
May:
House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III, F
June: The
Shipping News Annie Proulx F
July: The Winter of Our Discontent
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
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1999 |
- 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, Mary
Karr, NF
- May:
Nice Work and Small World,
David Lodge F
- June:
Bessie’s Violin,
Irene Flum Galvin F/SH. ST. & Bud, ONE ACT PLAY
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Tom Galvin
(local authors
attended and read their work)
- July:
A Lesson Before Dying,
Ernest J. Gaines F
- Aug.:
no
mtg.; Library
closed for renovation
- Sept.:
no
mtg.; Library
closed for renovation
- Oct.:
The Awakening,
Kate Chopin F (met in
Town Courts)
- Nov.:
no meeting;
Learning Center not ready (no Town room available)
- Dec.:
The Manikin, Joanna
Scott F
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1998 |
- 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 Schine, F
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1997 |
- 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 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
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1996 |
- 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
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1995 |
- 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
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Gary Paulsen NF/BIO
2 sled dogs and their 2
trainers
- 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
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