Previous Book Selections

2009
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Plainsong by kent Haruf
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Justify the Means by Robert Giordano
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
 

2008
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Sweet Potato Queens' first big-ass novel: stuff we didn't actually do, but could have, and may yet by Jill Brown
Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
 

Previous Years
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons by Lorna Landvik
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Pride and Loyalty, Kenneth Del Vecchio
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
The Ditchdigger's Daughter: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story, Yvonne Thronton
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
Beach Music, Pat Conroy
Tuesdays with Morrie and the five people you meet in heaven, by Mitch Albom
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
The Rescue, Nicholas Sparks
The Hot Zone, Robert Preston
Deep End of the Ocean, Jacquelyn Mitchard
One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus
Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen
Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry.
The Second Mark by Joy Goodwin
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Essays by David Sedaris
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden  
Patriot James by Robert Palmer
Selected Poems by Robert Frost
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley