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BOOK CLUB TITLES LIST
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
2004 2005  2006        

1997
The Color of Water by James MacBride, 10/97
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, 11/97
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 12/97

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1998
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser, 1/98
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, 4/98
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 5/98
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi, 9/98
A Widow for One Year by John Irving, 10/98
Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman, 11/98

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1999
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, 1/99
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, 2/99
Chocolat by Joanne Harris, 3/99
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, 4/99
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells, 5/99
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage, 6/99
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, 7/99
Drinking the Rain by Alix Shulman, 8/99
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman, 9/99
The Hours by Michael Cunningham, 10/99
Respect: An Exploration by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, 11/99

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2000
Hometown by Tracy Kidder, 1/00
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve, 2/00
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price, 3/00
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, 4/00
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, 5/00
A Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee, 6/00
The Love Letter by Kathleen Schine, 7/00
Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, 8/00
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, 9/00
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, 10/00
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, 11/00

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2001
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, 1/01
A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot, 2/01
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, 3/01
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, 4/01
Life in the Treetops by Margaret Lowman, 6/01
The Scarlet Professor by Barry Werth, 7/01
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama, 8/01
John Adams by David McCullough, 9/01
Warriors of God by James Reston, Jr., 10/01
The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington, 11/01

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2002
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow, 1/02
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom, 1/02
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins, 2/02
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, 3/02
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipul, 4/02
A Woman’s Education by Jill Ker Conway, 5/02
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, 9/02
Atonement by Ian McEwan, 10/02
Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, 11/02

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2003
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, 1/03
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, 2/03
Middlemarch by George Eliot, 3/03
Fateless by Imre Kertesz, 4/03
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, 5/03
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, 6/03
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, 7/03
Summer of a Door Mouse by John Mortimer, 8/03
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, 9/03

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl, 10/03
Three Junes by Julia Glass, 11/03

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2004
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Morgan, 1/04
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 2/04
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald , 3/04
The Penelopeia by Jane Rawlings (Odenweller), '59, 4/04
Disgrace by J. M. Coatzee, 5/04
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler, 6/04
The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, 7/04
Family Portraits: Remembrances by 20 Distinguished Writers edited by Carolyn Anthony, 8/04
The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Thi Diem Thuy Le, 9/04
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, 10/04
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi, 11/04

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2005
Appetite for Life (Biography of Julia Child) by Noel Riley Fitch, 1/05
Delights & Shadows by Ted Koser, 2/28/05

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (translated by Robert Pinsky or any of your choice), 3/28/05
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, 4/25/05
Runaway, Stories by Alice Munro, 5/23/05
Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher, 9/??/05
Saturday by Irwin McEwan, 10/24/05

Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, 11/28/05

2006

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