Book Club Choices

This book club was founded in Fall of 2007.  I was invited to join in October 2010.  Here are the titles chosen by our book club.

Items Chosen Prior to My Joining
(a * indicates ones I read on my own)

  1. Emma by Jane Austen
  2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini *
  3. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
  4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  5. Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
  6. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  7. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  8. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown *
  9. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  10. The Shack by William P. Young
  11. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  12. The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  13. The Secret History by Donna Tartt *
  14. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer *
  15. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer *
  16. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer *
  17. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer *
  18. The Pact by Jodi Picoult *
  19. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski *
  20. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
  21. The Black Dahlia by James Elroy
  22. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer *
  23. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen *
  24. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley *
  25. Push by Sapphire
  26. The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford *
  27. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold *
  28. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *
  29. The Help by Kathryn Sockett *
  30. Rainwater by Sandra Brown *
  31. The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
  32. The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
  33. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Heiber
  34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson *
  35. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
  36. Life of Pi by Yann Martel *
  37. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt *
Items Chosen With Me as a Member (also, noted the place we met to discuss - just for fun!)
(* indicates a book I did not finish)
  1. The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg - Whole Foods cafe
  2. The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand - Whole Foods cafe
  3. Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos - don't remember
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Chili's
  5. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom - not sure; I missed this meeting
  6. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff - Fernando's
  7. Goldengrove by Francine Prose - don't remember
  8. Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes - Old Chicago
  9. Awakening by S.J. Bolton - Jason's Deli
  10. One Day by David Nicholls * - don't remember
  11. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen - don't remember
  12. Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah - don't remember
  13. Saving Ceecee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman - Chili's
  14. Just Like Me, Only Better by Carol Snow - Fernando's
  15. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - Cilantro's
  16. The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright * - not sure; maybe Jason's Deli
  17. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik - The Garden Cafe
  18. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss * - Paradise Bakery
  19. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ruan - Hector's
  20. Little Bee by Chris Cleave - Foodies
  21. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister - don't remember
  22. Thirteenth Child by Patricia Wrede * - Red Lobster
  23. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls - not sure; maybe Cheddar's
  24. The Clean-up by Sean Dolittle - not sure; maybe Cheddar's
  25. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller * - don't remember
  26. The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky - Fernando's and then Starbucks
  27. The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve - Fernando's and then Starbucks
  28. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes * - don't remember
  29. Atticus by Ron Hansen - Paradise Bakery
  30. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - Paradise Bakery
  31. Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza - don't remember
  32. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - not sure; maybe Fernando's
  33. Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs - Fernando's 
  34. Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew - not sure
  35. The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry - not sure
  36. Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook - Jason's Deli
  37. The Thirteenth Tale by Diana Setterfield * - Longhorn
  38. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte * - Stories
  39. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield - not sure
  40. Happily Ever After by Harriet Evans * - not sure
  41. Julia's Chocolates by Cathy Lamb - Buffalo Wings and Rings
  42. The Far Side of the Sky by Daniel Kalla - Jason's Deli
  43. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths - don't remember
  44. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen * - Buffalo Wings and Rings
  45. The Year Everything Changed by Georgia Bockoven - Paradise Bakery
  46. The Good House by Ann Leary - The Summer Kitchen
  47. The Kept by James Scott - Paradise Bakery
  48. Winter Bloom by Tara Heavey - meeting cancelled
  49. My Real Children by Jo Walton
  50. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flag - Fernando's
  51. The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro - Fernando's
  52. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick



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