About my book club

 Still going strong after more than two decades…

In 2009, I posted these thoughts about book clubs.

My best friend and fellow book club member, Michelle, posted about our book club recently at her food blog, bite

At Inprint, Christmas 2003

Standing L-R: Marianne, Karen, Michelle, Linda, Brenda, Diane, Chrissy

Kneeling: Sylvie, Nora, Christie

L-R: Nora, Linda, Marianne, Sylvie, Brenda, Christie, Chrissy, Michelle, Karen, Diane, Jackie

Suwanna, 2004

L-R: Diane, Christie, Chrissy, Brenda, Sylvie, Marianne, Linda, Michelle, Nora

Suwanna, 2005

Standing – Sylvie, Nora, Marianne, Linda, Brenda

Kneeling: Chrissy, Christie, Michelle, Karen, Jackie

Another dinner at Suwanna, 2006

Back: Karen, Michelle, Linda. Chrissy. Marianne, Christie, Linda

Sitting: Nora, Sylvie

2009 at Suwanna for our annual Christmas dinner out.

This is a list of the books we’ve read in our more than a decade together. As the book club predates this blog, there aren’t reviews for all the books.

THE BOOKS

-A-
Anderson, Dargatz, Gail: The Cure for Death by Lightning
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake

   -B-  

Barbery, Muriel:  The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barfoot, Joan: Getting Over Edgar, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch
Barnes, Julian: The Sense of an Ending
Berg, Elizabeth: Never Change
Bohjalian, Chris: Midwives
Brown, Dan: The DaVinci Code

Buchanan,  Cathy Marie: The Painted Girls 
Burnard, Bonnie: The Good House
Bush, Catherine: The Rules of Engagement

 -C-   

Chevelier, Tracey: The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Clarke, Austin: The Question
Coelho, Paulo: The Alchemist
Cohen, Matt: Elizabeth and After
Cohen, Tish: Town House

Crewe, Lesley: Amazing Grace

 -D- 

Davis, Lauren B; Our Daily Bread Daily

Davidson, Andrew – The Gargoyle

DeFoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Diamant, Anita: The Red Tent
Doyle, Roddy: A Star Called Henry; The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
Dunant, Sarah: Birth of Venus

-E-

Edwards, Kim: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter                                                                     

Espach, Alison: The Wedding People                                                                                        Essbaum, Jill Alexander: Hausfrau

-F-

Frazen, Jonathan: The Corrections
Fitch, Janet: White Oleander
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Fong Bates, Judy: Midnight at the Dragon Café                                                                Fuller, Claire: Small Things Like These

-G-  

Galbraith, Robert: The Cuckoo’s Calling
Gaffney, Patricia: The Saving Graces                                                                                Garmus, Bonnie: Lessons in Chemistry
Genova, Lisa: Still Alice
Gibb, Camilla: Sweetness in the Belly
Gilbert, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love
Glover, Douglas: Elle
Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha
Gowdy, Barbara: The Romantic
Grovier, Katherine: Angel Walk

-H-

Haddon, Mark: A Spot of Bother, The Red House
Hamilton, Jane: Disobedience                                                                                                Hannah, Kristin: The Four Winds                                                                                        Harris, Joanna: Gentlemen & Players                                                                             Harrow, Alix. H: Starling House
Hay, Elizabeth: Garbo Laughs, Late Night on Air
Hepinstall, Kathy: The House of Gentle Men
Hill, Lawrence – The Book of Negroes
Hornby, Nick: How to Be Good
Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner
Humphreys, Helen: The Lost Garden

 -J-

James, PD: Death Comes to Pemberley                                                                                    Jones, Edward. P: The Known World
Jones, Lloyd:  Mister Pip                                                                                                         Juska, Elise: The Blessings

-K-

Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
Khadra, Yasmina: The Attack
Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees; The Mermaid’s Chair; Traveling with Pomegranates                                                                                                                    King, Lily: Writers & Lovers                                                                                                         Kingsolver, Barbara: Demon Copperhead                                                                                 Kinsella, Sophie: Confessions of a Shopaholic                                                                  Kline, Christine Baker: Orphan Train                                                                                  Krauss, Nicole: The History of Love                                                                                  Kwok, Jean: Girl in Translation 
Kyle, Aryn: The God of Animals

-L-

Lahiri, Jhumpa: The Namesake
Landvik, Lorna: Angry Housewives Eating BonBons
Lawson, Mary: Crow Lake
Levy, Andrea: Small Island                                                                                                Lively, Penelope: Moon Tiger
Livesay, Margaret: Eva Moves the Furniture

-M-

MacDonald, Sandy:  The White Iris                                                                              MacIntyre, Linden: The Bishop’s Man                                                                                Malerman, Josh: Bird Box                                                                                                Mandel, St. John Emily: Sea of Tranquility
Marquez Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time Of Cholera
Martel, Yann: Life of Pi                                                                                                    Mason, Meg: Sorrow and Bliss
Marshall, Bev: Right As Rain
McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes; ‘Tis
McEwan, Ian: Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, The Children Act
McKay, Ami: The Birth House                                                                                         McLain, Paula: The Paris Wife
Miller, Sue: Lost in the Forest
Morgan, Robert: Gap Creek                                                                                                  Moriarty, Liane: The Husband’s Secret                                                                                 Morrison, Blake: The Last Weekend  
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
Morrisey, Donna: Kit’s Law                                                                                                Morrow Lindbergh, Anne: Gift From the Sea

-N-                                                                                                                                            Nahai, Gina: Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith                                                        Napolitano, Ann: Hello Beautiful
Nason, Riel: The Town That Drowned                                                                               Ness, Patrick: More Than This                                                                                               Ng, Celeste: Everything I Never Told You                                                                                Nicholls, David: One Day ,Us                                                                                                  Niemi, Mikael: Popular Music from Vittula
Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler’s Wife

-O-                                                                                                                                             Oates, Joyce Carol: We Were the Mulvaneys
O’Flynn, Catherine: What Was Lost

-P-                                                                                                                                             Page, Kathy: The Story of My Face
Patchett, Ann: Bel Canto                                                                                                 Patrick, Phaedra: The Little Italian Hotel
Peterson, Per: Out Stealing Horses
Picoult, Jodi: My Sister’s Keeper
Powell, Julie: Julie & Julia                                                                                                    Prose, Nita: The Maid

-Q-                                                                                                                                            Quindlen, Anna: Black and Blue, Rise and Shine, Every Last One

-R-                                                                                                                                            Reardon, Lisa: Billy Dead
Redmond, Pamela: The Possibility of You
Richardson, CS: The End of the Alphabet
Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping                                                                                  Rowling, JK: The Casual Vacancy
Rushdie, Salman: Fury

-S-                                                                                                                                            Schoemperlen, Diane:  At A Loss For Words
Sebold, Anna: The Lovely Bones
Setterfield, Diane: The Thirteenth Tale , Bellman & Black
Sheilds, Carol: Unless and Larry’s Party
Simonson, Helen: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Smith, Alison: Name All The Animals
Schwartz, Jonathon Burnham: Claire Marvel
Schaeffer , Mary Ann and Annie Barrows – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie                                                                         Stewart, Leah: The Myth of You and Me                                                                                     St. James, Simone: The Broken Girls                                                                              Straub, Emma: This Time Tomorrow                                                                                Strayed, Cheryl: Wild                                                                                                       Stuart, Douglas: Shuggie Bain 

  -T-

Toews, Miriam: A Complicated Kindness                                                                              Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn
Tsiolkas, Christos: The Slap
Tyler, Anne: Back When We Were Grownups

-U-  

Urquhart, Jane: The Stone Carvers

-V-                                                                                                                                               Van Pelt, Shelby: Remarkably Bright Creatures                                                                         Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five

-W-                                                                                                                                              Walbert, Kate: The Gardens of Kyoto                                                                               Walls, Jeannette: The Glass Castle, Hang the Moon
Walter, Jess: The Financial Lives of Poets, Beautiful Ruins
Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith
Watson, SJ: Before I Go To Sleep
Wells, Rebecca: Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood; Little Altars Everywhere
Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth                                                                                   Wilkerson, Charmaine: Black Cake
Wright, Richard B.: Clara Callan; Adultery
Wroblewski, David: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

-Z-

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz: The Shadow of the Wind                                                                   Zevin, Gabrielle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry                                                                  Zusak, Marcus: The Book Thief

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