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Adult Book List for 2009

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Book group is held on the third Thursday of every month @7PM. Please contact the library for more information.

Date Host Book & Facilitator
  2010  
January 21 Robyn The Geography of Bliss/Jeannette
February18 Leslie Sea of Poppies/Leslie
March 18 Pam Below the Salt/Robyn
April 15 Joni Fast Food Nation/Peeker
May 20 Jeannette Dreams of My Father/Lisa
June 17 Leslie The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie/
July 15 Gail The Art of Racing in the Rain/Joni
August 19 Laurie Dog On It/Pam
September 16 Deb Hunting & Gathering/Dotty
October 21 Peeker The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society/Deb
November 18 Dotty Enslaved by Ducks/Laurie
December 16   Chet Gecko/Sandy

Previous Year’s Books

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

The Beans of Egypt Maine

The Giver

Chinese Bell Murders

A Beautiful Mind

Counting Coup

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Before and After

Mariette in Ecstasy

Lord of the Rings

The Elegant Gathering of White Snows

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Waiting

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Midwives

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

A Wrinkle in Time & Cat Wings

Snow Falls on Cedars

Like Water for Chocolate

The Girl in Hyacinth Blue

The Kitchen Boy
The Gazebo Modoc The Hours The Color Purple
French Lt. Woman Ice Bound I Wish I Had a Red Dress Accidental Tourist

 

Ahab's Wife

Pagan Nun

Tuck

Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight

 

The Red Tent

Watership Down

The Alchemist

100 Years of Solitude

 

Corelli's Mandolin

Princess

Things Fall Apart & The Poisonwood Bible

The Curious Incident of a Dog at Night-Time

 

Midwives

The Last Time They Met

Secret Life of Bees

Lovely Bones

 

 

The Big Sleep

The Kalahari School for Men

Little Women

 

 

A Single Shard

The Inn at Lake Devine

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005

2006

 2007 2008

2009

Swimming to Antarctica

The 3rd Translation

 One Thousand White Women Suite Francaise/Victoria The Great Fire

Beach Music

Spoonwood

 The Burn Journal The Thirteenth Tale/ Snow

Chocolat

DaVinci Code

 The Namesake Snowflower & the Secret Fan St. Alban's Fire

Handmaid's Tale & City of Ember

The Meeting House Tragedy

 Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Crashing Through The Name of the Rose
Samurai's Garden Atonement Reader's Choice--pick your own selection to share Bel Canto The Last Days of Dogtown
Time of Butterflies Water For Elephants The Reading Group The Spellman Files Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Blindness

 The Time Traveler's Wife One Thousand Splendid Suns The Island Queen

Nickel & Dimed/

Jazz

 Wait Until Next Year Three Cups of Tea Loving Frank/ Laurie

Year of Wonders

Kafka On the Shore

 Nineteen Minutes The Good Good Pig The Glass Castle

Kite Runner

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

 The Wild Girl The Memory Keeper's Daughter The Hunger Games

The Sudden Sea

Gift from the Sea

Maniac Magee The Friday Night Knitting Club The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

   Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key A String to Short to Be Saved