2011 Book Picks

Jan - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
Feb - The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
March - Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
April - An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
May - Rose in a Storm by Jon Katz
June - City of Thieves by David Benioff
July - Bossypants by Tina Fey
Aug -
Sept -
Oct -
Nov -
Dec -

2010 Book Picks

2010
January - People of the Book (Brooks)ko
February - Committed (Elizabeth Gilbert)kb
March - Sarah's Key (Tatiana De Rosnay)jw
April - In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Daniyal Mueenuddin)kk
May - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)jp
June - Shanghai Girls (Lisa See) jw
July - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
August - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)
September - White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
October - The Good Son (Michael Gruber)
November - Oprah: A Biography (Kitty Kelley)
December -Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)



Meetings - 2nd Tuesday of the month

2009 Book Picks

January - Mudbound (Jordan)
February - The God of Small Things (Roy)
March - The Zookeeper's Wife (Ackerman)
April - The Shack (Young)
May - Atonement (McEwan)
June - The Book Thief (Zusak)
July - skipped?
August - I Know This Much is True (Lamb)
September -
October - Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
November - The Help (Stockett)
December - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (McCullers)

2008 Book Picks

March - A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson) - KB
April - Digging to America (Anne Tyler) - JW
May - Breakfast with Tiffany (Ed Wintel) - KK
June - River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Peter Hessler)
July - Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs)
August - Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
September - Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most (Gwendolyn Bounds)
October - ???
December - Loving Frank (Horan)

Meetings - 2nd Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.
Location - Sent via email to group a few days in advance of meeting

Book List

• Interred With Their Bones (Jennifer Lee Carrell)


• Born Standing Up, The Pleasure of My Company (Steve Martin)


• Other People's Love Letters (Bill Shapiro)


• Mrs. Mike (Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman)

• Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All its Moods (Michael Wex)

From Jen's Book of the Day Calendar:

• Ghosting, A Double Life by Erdal
• The Hills at Home by ClarkPaddy Clarke
• Ha Ha Ha by Doyle
• One Pair of Hands by Dickens
• The Rabbit Factory by Karp
• Little, Big by Crowley
• In Search of Captain Zero by Weisbecker
• The Informant by Eichenwald
• The Black Flower by Bahr
• Friendship Cake by Hinton

Entertainment Weekly: The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)