Books Selected, 2014

2014

• World Made By Hand == James Howard Kunstler
• Garden of the Finzi-Continis == Giorgio Bassani
• Nothing Daunted == Dorothy Wickenden
• The Paris Wife == Paula McLain
• A Partial History of Lost Causes == Jennifer DuBois
• Catwalk == Jennifer DuBois
• Main Street == Sinclair Lewis
• The Snow Child == Eowyn Ivey
• Peace Like a River == Leif Enger
• Still Alice == Lisa Genova
• The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet == Reif Larsen
• Cookbooks/Food themes == Christmas party

Books Selected, 2013

2013
• The White Tiger == Aravind Adiga
• Waiting for Snow in Havana == Carlos Eire
• Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale == Lynda Rutledge
• In The Woods == Tana French
• The Forgotten Garden == Kate Morton
• Picture of Dorian Gray == Oscar Wilde
• The Lemon Tree == Sandy Tolan
• Defending Jacob == William Landay
• Gang Leader for a Day == Sudhir Venkatesh
• Ready Player One == Ernest Cline (and his DeLorean)
• 11/22/63 == Stephen King

Books Selected, 2012

2012
• Author visit == Jim Hornfischer
• Into Thick Air == Jim Malusa
• Moloka'i == Alan Brennert
• An American Tragedy == Theodore Dreischer
• Einstein's Dreams == Alan Lightman
• Welcome to Utopia == Karen Valby
• In the Garden of Beasts == Erik Larson
• Mystery == Jonathon Kellerman
• Olive Kitteridge == Elizabeth Strout
• The End of Overeating == David A. Kessler
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle == Barbara Kingsolver
• The Worst Hard Time == Timothy Egan

Books Selected, 2011

2011

• Go Down Together == Jeff Guinn
• The Help == Kathryn Stockett
• Behind Enemy Lines == Martha Cohn
• The Power of One == Bryce Courtenay
• Woodsburner == John Pipkin
• The Hummingbird's Daughter == Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Alchemist == Paulo Coelho
• Lacuna == Barbara Kingsolver
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet == Jamie Ford
• Infidel == Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Straight Man == Richard Russo

Books Selected, 2010

2010

• Isaac's Storm == Erik Larson
• Girl With the Dragon Tattoo == Steig Larsson
• Jude the Obscure == Thomas Hardy
• My Invented Country == Isabel Allende
• Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorist == Fred Burton
• The People of the Book == Geraldine Brooks
• any choice == Jim Thompson
• The Guernsey Library and Potato Peel Pie Society == Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Tales of the South Pacific == James Michener
• My Name is Falon == Kim Wiese
• Wishin' and Hopin' == Wally Lamb

Books Selected, 2009

2009

• Travels With Charley == John Steinbeck,
• Forgive Me == Amanda Ayre Ward
• And Then There Were None == Agatha Christie
• Dan Moody: Crusader For Justice == Ken Anderson
• A Short History of a Small Place == T.R. Pearson
• Team of Rivals == Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Ada == Vladimir Nabokov
• Never Let Me Go == Kazuo Ishiguro
• My Antonia == Willa Cather
• Author visit == Amanda Ayre Ward
• Pillars of the Earth == Ken Follett

Books Selected, 2008

2008

• Confederacy of Dunces ==John Kennedy Toole
  
• Atonement ==Ian McEwan
  
• The Virginian ==Owen Wister
  
• American Shaolin ==Matthew Polly
  
• Giant ==Edna Ferber
  
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ==Jonathan Safran Foer
  
• The Thirteenth Tale ==Diane Setterfield
  
• Julie & Julia ==Julie Powell
  
• Evacuation Plan: A Novel from the Hospice ==Joe M. O’Connell
  
• Ahab’s Wife: Or the Star Gazer ==Sena Jeter Naslund
  
• My Name is Red ==Orhan Pamuk
  

Books Selected, 2005-2007

2007

• Noah’s Ride ==Elmer Kelton et al
  
• The Songcatcher ==Sharyn McCrumb
  
• Pride & Prejudice ==Jane Austen
  
• Stones From a River ==Ursula Hegi
  
• Murder on the Rocks/Dead & Berried ==Karen MacInerney
  
• Water for Elephants ==Sara Gruen
  
• The Coffee Trader ==David Liss
  
• The Devil’s Highway ==Luis Alberto Urrea
  
• Fast Food Nation ==Eric Schlosser
  
• Polio ==David Oshinsky
  

2006

• The Human Stain ==Philip Roth
  
• Buck Fever ==Ben Rehder
  
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister ==Gregory Maguire
  
• The Giant’s House ==Elizabeth McCracken
  
• Second Coming of Lucy Hatch OR Last of the Honky Tonk Angels ==Marsha Moyer
  
• The Good Earth ==Pearl S. Buck
  
• The Time Traveler’s Wife ==Audrey Niffenegger
  
• All is Vanity ==Christina Schwartz
  
• Women in Love ==D.H. Lawrence
  
• Alibi ==Joseph Kanon
  

2005

• The Wailing Wind ==Tony Hillerman
  
• The Girl With a Pearl Earring ==Tracy Chevalier
  
• The Speed of Dark ==Elizabeth Moon
  
• Middlesex ==Jeffrey Eugenides
  
• Nickel & Dimed ==Barbara Ehrenreich
  
• 24 Hours ==Greg Iles
  
• In the Fall ==Jeffrey Lent
  
• Devil in the White City ==Erik Larson
  
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte ==Elizabeth Gaskell
  
• A Short History of Nearly Everything ==Bill Bryson
  
• The Kite Runner ==Khaled Hosseini
  

Books Selected, 2002-2004

2004

• The Age of Gold ==H.W. Brands
  
• Payment in Blood ==Elizabeth George
  
• Year of Wonders ==Geraldine Brooks
  
• Alamo House ==Sarah Bird
  
• Angels & Demons ==Dan Brown
  
• All Over But the Shoutin’ ==Rick Bragg
  
• Reading Lolita in Tehran ==Azar Nafisi
  
• East of Eden ==John Steinbeck
  
• The Great Gatsby ==F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• Bel Canto ==Ann Patchett
  
• Stand Proud ==Elmore Kelton
  

2003

• Blind Assassin ==Margaret Atwood
  
• Lovely Bones ==Alice Sebold
  
• Breaking Point ==Suzy Spencer
  
• Mrs. Dalloway ==Virginia Woolf
  
• The Secret Life of Bees ==Sue Monk Kidd
  
• Life of Pi ==Yann Martel
  
• Seabiscuit ==Laura Hillenbrand
  
• In Sunlight in a Beautiful Garden ==Kathleen Cambor
  
• Wonder Boys ==Michael Chabon
  
• Carter Beats the Devil ==Glen David Gold
  
• Then She Found Me ==Elinor Lipman
  

2002

• Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ==Michael Chabon
  
• Daughter of Fortune ==Isabel Allende
  
• A Painted House ==John Grisham
  
• A Prayer for Owen Meany ==John Irving
  
• Lonesome Dove ==Larry McMurtry
  
• True Women ==Janice Woods Windle
  
• John Adams ==David McCullough
  
• Time and Again ==Jack Finney
  
• Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas ==James Patterson
  

Books Selected, 1999-2001

2001

• The Poisonwood Bible ==Barbara Kingsolver
  
• The Red Tent ==Anita Diamant
  
• Death in a Tenured Position ==Amanda Cross
  
• Galileo’s Daughter ==Dava Sobel
  
• Faster ==James Glieck
  
• Virgin of the Rodeo ==Sarah Bird
  
• Another World ==Pat Barker
  
• Babbitt ==Sinclair Lewis
  
• The Seamstress ==Sara Tuvel Bernstein
  
• In the Lake of the Woods ==Tim O’Brien
  
• 1,000 White Women ==Jim Fergus
  

2000

• Tara Road ==Maeve Binchy
  
• The Greatest Generation ==Tom Brokaw
  
• The Inner Life of Objects ==Maxine Combs
  
• Hometown ==Tracy Kidder
  
• The Hours ==Michael Cunningham
  
• Turnip Blues ==Helen Campbell
  
• The Glass Lake ==Maeve Binchy
  
• The Awakening ==Kate Chopin
  
• The Pilot’s Wife ==Anita Shreve
  
• Orley Farm ==Anthony Trollope
  
• Hummingbird House ==Patricia Henley
  

1999

• A Civil Action ==Jonathan Harr
  
• High Tide in Tucson ==Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Madame Bovary ==Gustave Flaubert
  
• Memoirs of a Geisha ==Arthur Golden
  
• Numbered Account ==Christopher Reich
  
• Ember from the Sun ==Mark Canter
  
• Reasonable Doubt ==Friedman
  
• Angela’s Ashes ==Frank McCourt
  
• The Wind Up Bird Chronicle ==Haruki Murakami
  
• A Thousand Acres ==Jane Smiley
  
• The Book of Ruth ==Jane Hamilton
  

Books I Received as Christmas Gifts

From Claudia:
I thought it might be fun to have a posting about the books we all received at Christmas! Please click on "Comments" below this post, and then sign in and list the books you got! Then later we can all go to this post and look at the comments to see a list of select books!

I received the following books as Christmas gifts:
World Without End, by Ken Follett, a fat beautiful hard-cover edition. This one will require a vacation.
How to Attract Hummingbirds & Butterflies - someone where my daughter works was getting rid of this, so she grabbed it and wrapped it up for me. I am thrilled to receive it! I do put effort into attracting these lovely creatures in my yard, and I am famous in my family for always buying a new hummingbird feeder.
The Rule of Four, by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason - a historical novel, a mystery, involving an manuscript from 500 years ago, a real one.
Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life - a Feng Shui book. I enjoy the promise of Feng Shui, and I need a constant reminder to declutter.
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, by Yann Martel. My daughter gave this to my husband and me, partly because our dog is named Pi, and partly because we both enjoyed Life of Pi by this same author, and which our RRNN Book Discussion Group read and discussed in 2003.
365 Ways to Live Cheap, by Trent Hamm. I gave this little blog knock-off book to my husband, because we both read The Simple Dollar blog by this young man. His blog shows his love of writing. This is his first book.
The Areas of My Expertise, by John Hodgman. Daughter gave to my husband - this is by the guy on the TV commercials for the Mac - he's the guy who plays the PC. Apparently he has quite a wit.
The Book of Vice, by Peter Sagal. I got this one autographed for my husband at the Texas Book Festival. Sagal does the NPR show, "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"

Members Bring Favorite Books

We had a wonderful book club meeting today! To have missed it was indeed a shame! Everyone brought a book that they had enjoyed or were currently enjoying. Everyone wanted everyone else to read their book, so probably a few of these books will be nominated later.

Here is the list:

Carla The Lawrenceville Stories Owen Johnson
A Conspiracy of Paper David Liss
Dorothy Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
Jill Black, White, and Jewish Rebecca Walker (daughter of Alice)
The Tall Pine Polka Lorna Landvik
Claudia Harry Potter books J.K. Rowling
Wikki & Bep (both!) The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan
Fay Good in Bed Jennifer Weiner
Susan What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage
Dee Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child Noel Riley Fitch
Loretta A Dog’s Life Peter Mayle
Cecilia Haunted Mesa Louis L’Amour
Debbie The Wailing Wind Tony Hillerman
Patty John Steinbeck books – Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

We Suggest Books for Each Other

Potpourri of Suggestions of Books to Read

September 23, 2002

Suggested by: Title Author

Carla	The Lawrenceville Stories	Owen Johnson
	A Conspiracy of Paper	David Liss
Dorothy	Everything is Illuminated	Jonathan Safran Foer
Jill	Black, White, and Jewish	Rebecca Walker (daughter of Alice)
	The Tall Pine Polka	Lorna Landvik
Claudia	Harry Potter books	J.K. Rowling
Wikki & Bep (both!)	The Bonesetter’s Daughter	Amy Tan
Fay	Good in Bed	Jennifer Weiner
Susan	What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day	Pearl Cleage
Dee	Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child	Noel Riley Fitch
Loretta	A Dog’s Life	Peter Mayle
Cecilia	Haunted Mesa	Louis L’Amour
Debbie	The Wailing Wind	Tony Hillerman
Patty	John Steinbeck books – Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck