| Booklist |
Schedule |
History |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Melissa K |
January 25 |
Sputnik Sweetheart
(Haruki Murakami) |
Anne-Marie |
| Clare |
February 22 |
Provinces of Night
(William Gay) |
Helen |
| Helen |
March 29 |
The Dew Breaker (Edwidge
Danticat) |
Anne-Marie/Fran |
| Anne-Marie |
April 26 |
Small Island (Andrea
Levy) |
Anne-Marie |
| Fran |
May 31 |
The Belton Estate (Anthony
Trollope) |
Helen/Susan T |
| June 28 |
Zero: The Biography of
a Dangerous Idea (Charles Seife) |
Susan T |
|
| Susan T |
July 26 |
Anne-Marie |
|
| Melissa M |
August 30 |
The Distance (Eddie Muller) |
Susan K/Melissa K |
| Susan K |
September 27 |
The Known World (Edward
P. Jones) |
Anne-Marie/Susan K |
| October 26 |
The Shell Collector (Anthony
Doerr) |
Helen/Susan K |
|
| Rachel |
November 29 |
The Makioka Sisters (Junichero
Tanizaki) |
Anne-Marie |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Clare |
January 26 |
The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) AND Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem) |
Fran |
| Helen |
February 23 |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
(Carson McCullers) |
Anne-Marie |
| Betsy |
March 30 |
The Group (Mary McCarthy) |
Helen |
| Anne-Marie |
April 27 |
The
Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing
Wrong to Get Ahead (David Callahan) |
Anne-Marie |
| Fran |
May 25 |
The Bounty: The True Story
of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Caroline Alexander) |
Anne-Marie |
| June 29 |
I Am Madame X (Gioia Diliberto) |
Helen |
|
| July 27 |
The Poet and the Murderer:
A True Crime Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery (Simon Worrall) |
Susan K |
|
| August 24 |
The Road from Coorain (Jill
Ker Conway) |
Melissa M |
|
| Susan K |
September 28 |
Theory of War (Joan Brady) |
Fran |
| Allison |
October 26 |
The Secret Life of Lobsters:
How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite
Crustacean (Trevor Corson) |
Anne-Marie (Allison) |
| Rachel |
December 14 |
The Stories of Breece D'J
Pancake |
Susan K |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Anne-Marie |
January 28 |
Everything is Illuminated
(Jonathan Safran Foer) |
Melissa M |
| Fran |
March 3 (changed due to storm) |
Money (Martin Amis) |
Rachel |
| Laura |
March 31 |
Women's Work: The First
20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Elizabeth
Wayland Barber) |
Anne-Marie |
| Susan
T |
April 28 |
Blue Latitudes: Boldly
Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Tony Horwitz) |
Helen |
| Melissa M |
May 26 |
Life of Pi (Yann Martel) |
Susan T |
| Susan K |
June 30 |
A Dove of the East
(Mark Helprin) |
Anne-Marie |
| Allison |
July 28 |
Catfish and Mandala: A
Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
(Andrew X. Pham) |
Fran |
| Britt |
August 25 |
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) |
Melissa M |
| Cindy |
September 29 |
Slaves in the Family (Edward
Ball) |
Susan K |
| Rachel |
October 27 |
Coast Road (Barbara Delinsky) |
Anne-Marie |
| Melissa K |
December 1 |
Pompeii (Robert Harris) |
Susan T |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Helen |
January 29 |
Blind Assassin (Margaret
Atwood) |
Melissa M |
| Anne-Marie |
February 26 |
An Hour Before Daylight:
Memoirs of My Rural Boyhood (Jimmy Carter) |
Helen |
| Fran |
March 26 |
Savage Beauty (Nancy Milford) |
Anne-Marie |
| Laura |
April 30 |
Civilization and the Limpet
(Martin Wells) |
Fran |
| Melissa M |
May 28 |
Seabiscuit: An American
Legend (Laura Hillenbrand) |
Susan K |
| Christina |
June 25 |
Wide Open (Nicola Barker) |
Christina |
| Laura |
July 19 |
Special field trip to Fitzgerald Marine
Reserve, Moss Beach |
Laura |
| Susan K |
July 30 |
A Good Scent from
a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler) |
Clare |
| Rachel |
August 27 |
The Spectator Bird (Wallace
Stegner) |
Susan T |
| Melissa K |
September 24 |
The Dive from Clausen's
Pier (Ann Packer) |
Fran |
| Clare |
October 29 |
In the Hand of Dante (Nick
Tosches) |
Susan K |
| Helen |
December 17 |
The Small Room (May Sarton) |
Anne-Marie |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Anne-Marie |
January 30 |
The Informant (Kurt Eichenwald) |
Anne-Marie |
| Fran |
February 27 |
A Prayer for Owen Meany
(John Irving) |
Susan K |
| Fran |
April 3 (March meeting moved because of Seder) |
An Unofficial Rose (Iris
Murdoch) |
Christina |
| Susan K |
May 1 |
The Moviegoer (Walker
Percy) |
Fran |
| Susan T |
May 29 |
The
Summer Before Dark (Doris Lessing) |
Helen |
| Christina |
June 26 |
A Fine Balance (Rohinton
Mistry) |
Anne-Marie |
| Melissa K |
July 31 |
The Fig Eater (Jody Shields) |
Susan T |
| Susan K |
August 28 |
Black, White and Jewish:
Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Rebecca Walker) |
Fran |
| Susan K |
September 25 |
The Stranger (Albert Camus) |
Ann |
| Melissa K |
October 30 |
The Secret Agent (Joseph
Conrad) |
Helen |
| Clare |
December 4 |
The Other Boleyn Girl
(Philippa Gregory) |
Anne-Marie |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Susan K |
January 31 |
Enduring Love (Ian McEwan) |
Helen |
| Christina |
February 28 |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
(Haruki Murakami) |
Susan K |
| Britt |
March 28 |
An Equal Music (Vikram
Seth) |
Melissa M |
| Melissa M |
April 25 |
White Teeth (Zadie Smith) |
Ann |
| May 30 |
The Map of Love (Ahdaf
Soueif) |
Christina |
|
| Melissa K |
June 27 |
Macho Camacho's Beat (Luis
Rafael Sanchez) |
Susan T |
| Laura |
July 25 |
Confederates in the Attic
(Tony Horwitz) |
Ann |
| Christina |
August 29 |
A Voyager Out: The Life
of Mary Kingsley (Katherine Frank) |
Helen |
| Ann |
October 3 |
The Professor and the
Madman (Simon Winchester) |
Anne-Marie |
| Melissa M |
November 7 |
A Home At The End of the
World (Michael Cunningham) |
Susan K |
| Susan K |
December 5 |
Bee Season (Myla Goldberg) |
Melissa M |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Susan K |
January 26 |
The
Tin Drum (Gunther Grass) |
Ann |
| Group |
February 23 |
Native
Son (Richard Wright) |
Christina |
| na |
March |
no meeting |
na |
| April 5 |
After
Long Silence (Helen Fremont) |
Anne-Marie |
|
| Laura |
May 3 |
The
Archivist (Martha Cooley) |
Melissa M |
| Susan K |
June 7 |
Girl
in Hyacinth Blue (Susan Vreeland) |
Susan K |
| Fran |
July 5 |
Regeneration
(Pat Barker) |
Helen |
| Susan K |
August 2 |
The
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman) |
Susan T |
| Helen |
September 27 |
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) |
Ann |
| October 25 |
The
Hours (Michael Cunningham) |
Anne-Marie |
|
| Ann |
December 6 |
Guns,
Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond) |
Christina |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Christina |
January 27 |
Extra
Innings (Doris Grumbach) |
Christina |
| Laura |
February 24 |
Rising
from the Plains (John McPhee) |
Susan K |
| Melissa K |
April 7 |
The
Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera) |
Anne-Marie |
| Anne-Marie |
April 28 |
The
Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Simon
Wiesenthal) |
Susan T |
| May 26 |
How
Proust Can Change Your Life (Alain de Botton) |
Fran |
|
| Susan K |
June 30 |
The
Stone Raft (Jose Saramago) |
Anne-Marie |
| na |
July |
no meeting |
na |
| Laura |
August 25 |
Death
Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather) |
Susan T |
| Helen |
September 29 |
The
Question of David: A Disabled Mother's Journey Through Adoption,
Family, and Life (Denise
Sherer Jacobson) |
Melissa M |
| Christina |
October 27 |
The
Pilot's Wife (Anita Shreve) |
Christina |
| Susan K |
December 1 |
Amsterdam
(Ian McEwan) |
Susan K |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Helen |
January 28 |
Mama
Day (Gloria Naylor) |
Helen |
| Melissa K |
February 25 |
Watership
Down (Richard Adams) |
Anne-Marie |
| Susan K |
March 25 |
Saints
and Strangers (Angela Carter) |
Susan K |
| Laura |
April 29 |
A
Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary,
1785-1812 (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich) |
Susan T |
| Christina |
May 27 |
Memoirs
of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) |
Christina |
| Helen |
June 24 |
Stones
from the River (Ursela Hegi) |
Helen |
| July 29 |
The
Inferno (Dante) |
Fran |
|
| Susan K |
August 26 |
The
Ends of the Earth (Robert Kaplan) |
Christina |
| Anne-Marie |
September 30 |
Human
Croquet (Kate Atkinson) |
Fran |
| Melissa M |
October 28 |
The
Bone People (Keri Hulme) |
Anne-Marie |
| Fran |
December 2 |
Resurrection
(Leo Tolstoy) |
Susan T |
| Chooser |
Meeting Date |
Book |
Hostess |
| Group |
May |
Angela's
Ashes (Frank McCourt) |
Fran |
| Melissa M |
June |
Nine
Parts of Desire: The Hidden Lives of Islamic Women (Geraldine
Brooks) |
Fran |
| Group |
July 31 |
Women's
Ways of Knowing: The Developing of Self, Voice, and Mind (Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule
Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule) |
Susan T |
| Fran |
August |
Jennie
Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) |
Helen |
| Terry |
September 24 |
A
Civil Action (Jonathan Harr) |
Susan T |
| Anne-Marie |
October 29 |
Geek
Love (Katherine Dunn) |
Fran |
| Christina |
December 3 |
Yellow
Raft on Blue Water (Michael Dorris) |
Melissa M |
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