Contemporary Fiction Book Club Reading Lists

2007-2008:

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Pocketful of Names by Joe coomer
The Island by Victoria Hislop
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
The Birth House by Ami McKay
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela vida
Torch by Cheryl Strayed
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton

2006-2007:

Gods In Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
White Ghost Girls by Alice Geenway
North of Hope by Jon Hassler
Birds In Fall by Brad Kessler
Red Earth White Earth by Will Weaver

2005-2006:

09/05 Hidden by Paul Jaskunas
10/05 Heaven Lake by John Dalton
11/05 About Grace by Anthony Doerr

01/06 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
02/06 The Student Conductor by Robert Ford
03/06 Saints at the River by Ron Rash
04/06 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
05/06 The Perpetual Ending by Kristen Den Hartog

2004-2005:
09/04 Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
10/04 The Clearing by Tim Gautreax
11/04 Pictures from an Expedition Diane Smith
( by the author of Letters from Yellowstone)

01/05 The Canal House by Mark Lee
02/05 My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
03/05 where no gods came by Sheila O'Connor
04/05 Fires in the Dark by Louise Doughty
05/05 The Book of Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis



2003-2004:
09/03 Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook
10/03 the life before her eyes by laura kasischke
11/03 The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

01/04 A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia by Rick Collignon
02/04 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
03/04 Was It Beautiful? by Alison McGhee
04/04 A Disturbance of the Inner Ear by Joyce Hackett
05/04 Quarantine by Jim Crace


2002-2003:
09/02 Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
10/02 Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
11/02 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
12/02 The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

01/03 Andorra by Peter Cameron
02/03 Beloved Stranger by Clare Boylan
03/03 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
04/03 The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu
05/03 Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy

2001-2002:
09/01 Moira’s Crossing by Christina Shea
10/01 A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
11/01 The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler
(phone interview with author)

01/02 Rainlight by Alison McGhee
02/02 Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
03/02 Wild Life by Molly Gloss
04/02 These Granite Islands by Sarah Stonich
05/02 An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
06/02 Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton
(phone interview with the author)



2000-2001:
09/00 Amy and Isabel by Elizabeth Stout
10/00 The Pact by Jodi Picoult
11/00 Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

01/01 Evensong by Gail Godwin
02/01 Girl In Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
03/01 Letters From Yellowstone by Diane Smith
04/01 The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
05/01 Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross






1999-2000:
09/99 Lambs of God by Marelee Day
10/99 Unraveling by Elizabeth Graver
11/99 River Warren by Kent Meyers
(Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely)

01/00 Power by Linda Hogan
02/00 Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
03/00 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
04/00 Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
05/00 Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve





1998-1999:
09/98 Glimmer by Annie Waters
(Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely)
10/98 The Distance From The Heart of Things by Ashley Warlick
11/98 Resistance by Anita Shreve
12/98 The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

01/99 Dancer With Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
(Out of Print)
02/99 Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier
03/99 Visitors by Anita Brookner
04/99 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
05/99 Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
(Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely)


1997-1998:
09/97 Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer
10/97 In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike (not recommended)
11/97 Sacred Dust by David Hill

01/98 A Chance to See Egypt by Sandra Scofield
02/98 The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
03/98 Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris
04/98 Where River Turns to Sky by Gregg Kleiner
05/98 Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller






1996-1997:
09/96 Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
10/96 In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
11/96 Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris
12/96 Edge of the Crazies by Jamie Harrison
(joint meeting with the mystery book club)

01/97 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
02/97 The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller
03/97 Shadow of Ashland by Terence Green
04/97 The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
05/97 Zenzele by Maraire J. Nozipo




1995-1996:
09/95 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
10/95 Consider This, Senora by Harriet Doerr
11/95 Ugly Ways by Tina Ansa McElroy
12/95 Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy

01/96 Old Dogs and Children by Robert Inman
02/96 Shadow Song by Terry Kay
03/96 In Troubled Waters by Beverly Coyle
04/96 The Unfastened Heart by Lane Von Herzen
(Out of Print)
05/96 Eve’s Tattoo by EmilyPrager
(Our of Print)




1994-1995:
09/94 Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
10/94 The Forms of Water by Andrea Barrett
11/94 Hank and Chloe Jo-Ann Mapson

01/95 The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
02/95 The Widows’ Adventures by Charles Dickinson
(Out of Print)
03/95 Copper Crown by Lane Von Herzen
(Out of Print)
04/95 Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
05/95 A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez




1994:
01/94 A Farm Under A Lake by Martha Bergland
(Out of Print)
02/94 Crossing To Safety by Wallace Stegner
03/94 Crows by Charles Dickinson
(Out of Print)
04/94 Sweet Eyes by Jonis Agee
(Out of Print)
05/94 Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass by Gary Paulsen