What other book clubs read
Here's a booklist from another bookclub a friend of mine belongs to. As you can see
they've been at it awhile.
1997
Samurai’s Garden Gail Tsukiyama
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
The Magus John Fowles
Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers Lois-Ann Yamanaka
1998
Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro
So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell
Le Divorce Diane Johnson
Mistress of Spices Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan
The President’s Daughter Barbara Chase-Ribaud
Reservation Blues Shirman Alexie
Before Women Had Wings Connie May Fowler
1999
Hidden Latitudes Allison Anderson
Becoming a Man Paul Monette
The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway
The Archivist Martha Cooley
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Reader Bernard Schlink
American Pastorale Philip Roth
The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat
Nine Parts of Desire Geraldine Brooks
Cold New World William Finnegan
2000
Elementals A. S. Byatt
Autobiography of an ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson
Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe
House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Howard’s End E. M. Forster
Mendel’s Dwarf Simon Mawer
Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve
The Spirit Catches You and You Ann Fadiman
Fall Down (PB)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (PB) Jared Diamond
2001
Dreams of my Russian Summer (PB) Andrei Makine
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Jose Saramago
The Architect of Desire Suzannah Lessard
Red Azalea Anchee Min
The Red Tent Anita Diamant
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
The Girl with the Pearl Earring Tracy Cavendish
No Great Mischief Alistair McLeod
Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
White Teeth (PB) Zadie Smith
Shipping News (PB) E. Annie Proulx
The Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahari
2002
The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the David MacFarlane
Search for a Family’s Past
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Wolfe
The Hours Michael Cunningham
The Dark Room Rachel Seiffert
Staring at the Sun Julian Barnes
Properties of Light (PB) Rebecca Goldstein
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
Nickel and Dimed (PB) Barbara Ehrenreich
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
The Gospel of Judas (PB) Simon Mawer
2003
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Susan Straight
Licked Out All the Pots
The Sweetest Dream (PB) Doris Lessing
The True Believer (PB) Eric Hoffer
The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch
The Bee Season Myla Goldberg
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
A Fine Balance (PB) Rohinton Mistry
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (PB) Sijie Dai
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Alice Munro
Marriage (PB)
A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Robert Sapolsky
Life Among the Baboons (PB)
River Town (PB) Peter Hessler
2004
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (PB) Michael Dorris
Midwives (PB) Chris Bohjalian
The Professor and the Madman (PB) Simon Winchester
The Autograph Man (PB) Zadie Smith
The Man Who Tried to Save the World Scott Anderson
Sea Glass Anita Shreve
Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabara
History as Mystery Michael Parenti
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller
The Gift of the Jews Thomas Cahill
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Lost in America Sherwin Nuland
2005
The Motorcycle Diaries (PB) Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Fugitive Pieces Ann Michaels
Revenge Laura Blumenfeld
Reading Lolita in Tehran (PB) Azar Nafisi
Kite Runner (PB) Khaled Hosseini
Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
The Dream of Scipio (PB) Iain Pears
The Known World (PB) Edward Jones
Never Let Me Go (PB) Kazuo Ishiguro
My Sister’s Keeper (PB) Jody Picoult
The Way the Crow Flies (PB) Anne Marie MacDonald
The Great Inland Sea David Francis
2006
The Plague Albert Camus
The Shadow of the Wind Luis Ruiz Safon
The Future of Freedom (PB) Fareed Zakaria
Genghis Khan (PB) Jack Wetherford
Wild Swans (PB) Jung Chang
Through the Wall: A Year in Havana (PB) Margot Pepper
Love Medicine (PB) Louise Erdrich
they've been at it awhile.
1997
Samurai’s Garden Gail Tsukiyama
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
The Magus John Fowles
Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers Lois-Ann Yamanaka
1998
Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro
So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell
Le Divorce Diane Johnson
Mistress of Spices Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan
The President’s Daughter Barbara Chase-Ribaud
Reservation Blues Shirman Alexie
Before Women Had Wings Connie May Fowler
1999
Hidden Latitudes Allison Anderson
Becoming a Man Paul Monette
The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway
The Archivist Martha Cooley
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Reader Bernard Schlink
American Pastorale Philip Roth
The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat
Nine Parts of Desire Geraldine Brooks
Cold New World William Finnegan
2000
Elementals A. S. Byatt
Autobiography of an ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson
Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe
House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Howard’s End E. M. Forster
Mendel’s Dwarf Simon Mawer
Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve
The Spirit Catches You and You Ann Fadiman
Fall Down (PB)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (PB) Jared Diamond
2001
Dreams of my Russian Summer (PB) Andrei Makine
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Jose Saramago
The Architect of Desire Suzannah Lessard
Red Azalea Anchee Min
The Red Tent Anita Diamant
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
The Girl with the Pearl Earring Tracy Cavendish
No Great Mischief Alistair McLeod
Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
White Teeth (PB) Zadie Smith
Shipping News (PB) E. Annie Proulx
The Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahari
2002
The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the David MacFarlane
Search for a Family’s Past
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Wolfe
The Hours Michael Cunningham
The Dark Room Rachel Seiffert
Staring at the Sun Julian Barnes
Properties of Light (PB) Rebecca Goldstein
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
Nickel and Dimed (PB) Barbara Ehrenreich
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
The Gospel of Judas (PB) Simon Mawer
2003
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Susan Straight
Licked Out All the Pots
The Sweetest Dream (PB) Doris Lessing
The True Believer (PB) Eric Hoffer
The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch
The Bee Season Myla Goldberg
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
A Fine Balance (PB) Rohinton Mistry
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (PB) Sijie Dai
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Alice Munro
Marriage (PB)
A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Robert Sapolsky
Life Among the Baboons (PB)
River Town (PB) Peter Hessler
2004
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (PB) Michael Dorris
Midwives (PB) Chris Bohjalian
The Professor and the Madman (PB) Simon Winchester
The Autograph Man (PB) Zadie Smith
The Man Who Tried to Save the World Scott Anderson
Sea Glass Anita Shreve
Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabara
History as Mystery Michael Parenti
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller
The Gift of the Jews Thomas Cahill
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Lost in America Sherwin Nuland
2005
The Motorcycle Diaries (PB) Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Fugitive Pieces Ann Michaels
Revenge Laura Blumenfeld
Reading Lolita in Tehran (PB) Azar Nafisi
Kite Runner (PB) Khaled Hosseini
Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
The Dream of Scipio (PB) Iain Pears
The Known World (PB) Edward Jones
Never Let Me Go (PB) Kazuo Ishiguro
My Sister’s Keeper (PB) Jody Picoult
The Way the Crow Flies (PB) Anne Marie MacDonald
The Great Inland Sea David Francis
2006
The Plague Albert Camus
The Shadow of the Wind Luis Ruiz Safon
The Future of Freedom (PB) Fareed Zakaria
Genghis Khan (PB) Jack Wetherford
Wild Swans (PB) Jung Chang
Through the Wall: A Year in Havana (PB) Margot Pepper
Love Medicine (PB) Louise Erdrich
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