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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