Previous Book Group Selections
1994
Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver
Little Big Man Thomas Berger
Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Before and After Rosellen Brown
Kinds of Love May Sarton
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
In Country Bobbie Ann Mason
Spring Snow Yukio Mishima
Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz
1995
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian Moore
Enemies, A Love Story Isaac Bashevis Singer
Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman
The Awakening Kate Chopin
The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman P. D. James
The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor
Father Melancholy's Daughter Gail Godwin
Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner
Fifth Business Robertson Davies
Old Gringo Carlos Fuentes
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
1996
Perfume Patrick Suskind
The Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck
The Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker
The Chosen Chaim Potok
The Great Santini Pat Conroy
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
Parallel Lives Phyllis Rose
Democracy Henry Adams
Broken Cord Michael Dorris
My Antonia Willa Cather
West With the Night Beryl Markham
1997
Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Rabbit Run John Updike
The Longings of Women Marge Piercy
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Cider House Rules John Irving
Power and the Glory Graham Greene
Portrait of a Lady Henry James
Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan
The City of Joy Dominique Lapierre
Mozart Marcia Davenport
1998
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
Billy Budd Herman Melville
Time and Tide Edna O'Brien
A Short History of a Small Place T. R. Pearson
Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent Julia Alvarez
The Haunting of Hill House & The Lottery Shirley Jackson
Railway Man Eric Lomax
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
1999
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos
Burge''s Daughter Nadine Gordimer
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
Ethan Fromme Edith Wharton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
A Passage to India E. M. Forster
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
Portrait of a Marriage Nigel Nicolson
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett
Their Eyes Were Watching God Nora Zeale Hurston
2000
The Crocodile Bird Ruth Rendell
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sula Toni Morrison
The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Men and Angels Mary Gordon
Call It Sleep Henry Roth
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
A Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
2001
The Bookshop and Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald
Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr
Charming Billy Alice McDermott
Ragtime L. Doctorow
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
The Honey Thief Elizabeth Graver
The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith
A Single Pebble John Hersey
Moo Jane Smiley
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
The God of Small Things Arundhati Ray
Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
2002
A Virtuous Woman Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons
She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Therapy David Lodge
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Dream Catcher: A Memoir Margaret A. Salinger
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
A Civil Action Jonathan Harr
The Good Soldier Madox Fox
Babel Tower A.S. Byatt
Beloved Toni Morrison
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
2003
Sister Carrie Theodore Drieser
Larry's Party Carol Shields
Red Tent Anita Diamant
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel
Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates
Howard's End E.M. Forster
An Elegy for Iris John Bayley
Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence
Color Purple Alice Walker
Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester
2004
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III
Profiles In Courage
Night
John F. Kennedy
Elie Wiesel
Secret History Dona Tartt
The Haj Leon Uris
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver
Stone Diaries Carol Shields
Beet Queen Louise Erdrich
John Adams David McCullough
Shipping News E. Anne Proulx
Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
2005
Mystic River Dennis Lehane
On The Bus Kimberly Scott
Atonement Ian McEwan
Memoirs of a Geisha Andrew Golden
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain
While I Was Gone Sue Miller
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
The Johnstown Flood David McCullough
Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
The Orchid Thief Susan Orlean
East of Eden John Steinbeck
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
2006
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexander Fuller
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah
Dubliners James Joyce
Random Harvest James Hilton
Liar's Club Mary Karr
The Amateur Marriage Anne Tyler
Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
Black Like Me John Howard
The Color of Water James McBride
Life of PI Yann Martel
2007
An American Childhood Annie Dillard
Lost Horizon James Hilton
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick
Waiting Ha Jin
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Hotel New Hampshire John Irving
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
The Girl with a Pearl Earing Tracy Chevalier
Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Namesake Jhumpa Lakiri
2008
Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
Born on a Blue Day Daniel Tammet
A Thread of Grace Mary Doria Russell
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
Death In Venice Thomas Mann
Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Monday July 7 - MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
Monday August 4 - CROW LAKE by Mary Lawson
Garlic and Sapphires: Life of a Critic in Disguise Ruth Reichl
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
The Known World Edward P. Jones