Book Selections
2008
- February:
A Thousand Splendid Sons
- January: Eat, pray, love : one woman's
search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
2007
- March:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- May:
Namesake
- June:
Veil of Roses
- July:
Veil of Roses
- August:
Motoring With Mohammed - Journeys of Yemen
and the Red Sea
- September:
Motoring With Mohammed - Journeys of Yemen
and the Red Sea
- October:
The Alchemist
- November:
The Alchemist
- December:
Eat, Pray, Love: one woman's
search for everything across Italy,
India and Indonesia
2006
- January:
My Sister’s Keeper
- February:
Songs of the Humpback Whale
- March:
Songs of the Humpback Whale
- April:
Song of the Humpback Whale
- May:
A Million Little Pieces
- June:
Time Traveler’s Wife
- July:
Time Traveler’s Wife and Rabbit Proof Fence
- August:
The Poisonwood Bible
- September:
The Poisonwood Bible
- October:
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
- November:
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
- December:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2005
- January:
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
- February:
Their Eye Were Watching G-d
- March:
Watched the Movie – Their Eyes Were Watching G-d Together
- April:
Kite Runner
- May:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- June:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- July:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- August:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- September:
My Antonia
- October:
My Antonia
- November:
Red Queen
- December:
My Sister’s Keeper
2004
- January:
Why I’m Like This
- February:
Why I’m Like This
- March:
Confessions of A Pagan Nun
- April:
Galileo’s Daughter
- May:
When the Elephant’s Dance
- June:
When the Elephant’s Dance
- July:
When the Elephant’s Dance
- August:
When the Elephant’s Dance
- September:
The Red Tent
- October:
The Red Tent
- November:
The Red Tent
- December:
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
2003
- January:
White Oleander
- February:
Clay’s Quilt
- March:
Clay’s Quilt
- April:
Sea Glass
- May:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- June:
Balzac – short stories
- July:
The Nanny Diaries
- August:
Halide’s Gift
- September:
Unless
- October:
A Thousand Days in Venice
- November:
A Thousand Days in Venice
- December:
I Don’t Know How She Does It
2002
- July:
The Girl with the Pearl Earring
- August:
Stones from the River
- September:
Tuesdays with Morrie
- October:
The Secret Life of Bees
- November:
Lovely Bones
- December:
[Can’t remember….]
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List of Choices for 2007
- Foreign
Correspondence: A PenPal's Journey from Down
Under to All Over: written by the same author as the Nine Parts of
Desire, stories from a young woman in Australia and her penpals from all over the world, from the West
Bank/Israel to a farmer's daughter in a French Village.
- The
Hazards of Sleeping Alone: a divorced mom gets on with her life as her
daughter deals with the realities of life
- The
Myth of You and Me: a story about a caregiver for a 90 yr old who dies, has
to track down her estranged best friend and deliver a mysterious package
- March,
by Geraldine Brooks: written by the author of Little Women, the story of
life from the Dad's pespective, his war
experience, courtship of Marmee, etc.
- When
the Emperor Was Divine: a story about life in an internment camp in the US
during WWII
- Longitude,
by Dava Sobel,
written by the same author as Galileo's Daugher,
a story about invention of chronomoter for the
high seas
List of Recommended/Considered Books
- Falling
leaves by Adeline Yen Mah (Ruth)
- Walking
the Bible
- 20th
Wife
- Catfish
and Mandela (Vietnamese man goes back)
- What
is the What (sudan man)
- Sister
of My Heart (Maia Starling rec)
- 6
days of war (Michael oren)
- Life
of Pi
- Mapmaker’s
Wife
- G-d
of small things
- No
country for old men
- Bel Canto
- Shalimar
the Clown
- Wallace
Stegner books
- Angle
of Repose
- All
the little live things
- One
thousand white women: the journals of Mary Dodd: a novel, American
Indian experience from women’s perspective
- The
forest lover by susan Vreeland: canadian
painter’s quest through wilderness in british Columbia
to paint totem poles, indigenous traditions that died out, etc.
overcoming male dominated art culture
- Motoring
with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen
and the Red Sea by Eric Hansen (5 stars,
25 reviews)
- The
bookseller of Kabul
- Something
Borrowed by emily giffin
(Sigal)
- Birds
Without Wings (Heather, same author as Corelli’s Mandolin)
- Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier & Klay By, Michael Chabon
(Heather)
- "May
contain nuts" by John O'Farrell. (Irit)
- "North
to the Night" / Alvah Simon- it is a
survival story. (orit)
- Also,
heard that "Mapping the Edge"/ Dunant is good. (orit)
- "Peace
Like a River"/ Enger
- heard is good, but takes some time getting into. (orit)
- The
Way the Crow Flies, by Anne
- Marie
MacDonald. She also wrote Fall On Your Knees
- The
Shadow of the Wind, written by a Spanish author and set in Barcelona.
- The
Tender Bar. It's a memoir about a man who sort of came of age in his
neighborhood bar.
- The
Sunflower - by Richard Paul Evans
- Alice
- Bridges
of Madison
County
- A
Map of the World (ruled out as too many have read it already)
- 9
Parts of Desire
- Memories
of a Geisha
- The
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (seems promising, he/she
priest thing)
- The
Corrections
- A
Child Called It (ruled out as too depressing)
- Fury
- Royal
Physicians Visit (ruled out because of Hard Cover)
- Tender
at the Bone
- Cold
Comfort Farm
- Fall
On Your Knees
- Devil
in the White
City
- Crow Lake
- Dive From Clausens Pier
- Sister of my Heart
- White
Swans (Chinese women through generations)
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