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 Books Previously Discussed

Books we have previously discussed in the 2nd Monday Group:

2011

Two Rivers by T. Greenwood
The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
Old School by Tobias Wolfe
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth van Arnim
We Band of Angels by Elizabeth Norman
Apologizing to Dogs by Joe Coomer
Horatio's Drive by Ken Burns
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
The Painted Veil by W.S. Maughan
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

2010

Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killerby James L. Swanson
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer & Barrows
Woodsburner by John Pipkin
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson by Eve LaPlante
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Doubt by john Patrick Shanley

2009

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine
The Survivor’s Club by Lisa Gardner
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Five Skies by Ron Carlson
Passions of Emma by Penelope Williamson
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
1000 White Women by Jim Fergus

2008
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem
Secret Ingredient Murders, a Eugenia Potter Mystery by Nancy Pickard

2007
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Children of Men by P. D. James

2006
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story by Lisa Fiedler
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer

2005
Lord Baltimore by Stephen Doster
Chasing Rumi: A Fable About Finding the Heart's True Desire by Roger Housden
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

2004
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
— and/or The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert
— and Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter

2003
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Any original Nancy Drew mystery by Carolyn Keene
Any Inspector Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni
A Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh
A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Wish You Well by David Baldacci
A Country Year by Sue Hubbell
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler

2000 – 2001 – 2002
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Sense & Sensibility by Austen
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
He, She, and It by Marge Piercy
Midwives by Bohjalian
The Rapture of Canaan by Reynolds
The Color of Water by McBride
Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg
New Passages by Gail Sheehy
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Posessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Books by Thomas Wolfe
A Boy Called H by Kappa Senoh
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Under Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall