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Book Beat Evenings II

 2011-2012

Book

Hostess

date

None – mid summer chat Carolyne Darimont 2011 07 27 (tentative)
Still Alice / Lisa Genova Jane Avery 2011 09 07
Hotel on The Corner of Bitter And Sweet / Jamie Ford Judy Walker 2011 10 05
Regeneration / Pat Barker Anne Fuller 2011 11 02
Swan Thieves / Elizabeth Kostova Kathy Cleemput 2011 12 07
The Help / Kathryn Stockett Carolyne Darimont 2012 01 04
Half Broke Horses / Jeannette Walls Lisa Droppo 2012 02 01
The Mistress of Nothing / Kate Pullinger   2012 03 07 (tentative)
Unbroken : A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption / Laura Hillenbrand Valerie Potter 2012 04 04 (tentative)
Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard / Richard B. Wright Mary Brown 2012 05 02
Session To Determine Reading For The Year After: Plan Is A Wine/Cheese Event Kathy Palmer 2012 06 06 (tentative)

 

History

2010-2011

Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
The Brutal Telling / Louise Penny
The Underpainter / Jane Urquhart
The Elegance of the Hedgehog / Muriel Barbery
The Postmistress / Sarah Blake
The Art of Racing in the Rain / Garth Stein
Winter Vault / Anne Michaels
South Riding / Winifred Holtby

2009-2010

Year of Wonders / Geraldene Brooks
The Book of Negroes /Lawrence Hill
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Cellist of Sarajevo /Steven Galloway
The White Tiger /Aravind Adiga
Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer
Through Black Spruce /Joseph Boyden
Loving Frank / Nancy Horan

2008-2009

Darkly Dreaming Dexter / Jeff Lindsay
Late nights on Air / Elizabeth Hay
People of the Book / Geraldine Brooks
A Rhinestone Button/ Gail Anderson-Dargatz
My Sister’s Keeper / Jodi Picoult
The Sparrow / Mary Doria Russell
The Thirteenth Tale / Diane Setterfield
A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen

2007-2008

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesan), Out of Africa
Yasmin Crowther, Saffron Kitchen
Charlotte Gray, The Reluctant Genius
Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures
Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge
Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
Irene Numeronsky, Suite Francaise
Anita Shreve, Body Surfing
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk about Kevin

2006 – 2007

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Kasuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes
Ken McGoogan, Lady Franklin’s Revenge
James Michener, Caravans
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

2005 – 2006

Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Anne Coleman, I’ll Tell You a Secret
Amy Ephron, A Cup of Tea
Kent Haruf, Plainsong
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Frances Itani, Deafening
Anne Kingston, The Meaning of Wife
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Mark Miller, The Whaleboat House (formerly Amagansett)

2004 – 2005

Laura Esquinel, Like Water for Chocolate
Jeffrey Euginides, Middlesex
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Tom Harpur, The Pagan Christ
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Penelope Lively, The Photograph
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

2003 – 2004

Andre Dubus, House of Sand and Fog
Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Courtship, Marriage
Joyce Carol Oates, We Were The Mulvaneys
Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Cynthia Thayer, A Certain Slant of Light
Jan Wong, Red China Blues
Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan

2002 – 2003

Faulks, Birdsong
Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass
Laurence, The Stone Angel
Kogan, Shutter Babe
Diamant, The Red Tent
Shields, Unless
Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Gray, Mrs. King – The Life and Times of Isabel King
Lawson, Crow Lake
Trillin, Tepper Isn’t Going Out

2001 – 2002

Shreve, Fortune’s Rocks
Howatch, The Wonder Worker
Graham, Personal History
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Klein, No Logo
Anderson, A Year by the Sea
Gordon, Spending
Conroy, Body and Soul
Coetzee, Disgrace

Recommended Reads

A. S. Byatt, Possession

Louisde Bernieres,Birds Without Wings

Elizabeth Berg, A Year of Pleasures

Dennis Bock, The Ash Garden

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Joan Didion, A Year of Magical Thinking

Hugh Garner, Cabbagetown

Malcolm Gladwell, Blink

Laurie Graham, The Great Husband Hunt

Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Thompson Highway, Kiss of the Fur Queen

Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein

Donna Morrissey, Sylvanus Now

Starting out in the Evening, Brian Morton

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Mark Salzman, The Soloist

Ann Tyler, Saint Maybe

Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers

Lally Winston, Good Grief

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