(Lists in reverse chronological order - most recent book first)
next: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs Telex From Cuba by Rachel Kushner The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine Pope Joan by Donna Cross Stealing Athena by Karen Essex The Infiltrator by Robert Mazur That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Die for You by Lisa Unger Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski The Echo Maker by Richard Powers Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou Black Out by Lisa Unger Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows Show & Tell -- sharing favorites Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The House at Riverton by Kate Morton Proof by David Auburn The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman A Warrant for Mrs. Lincoln by Nancy Schleifer I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Dangerous Waters by John S. Burnett Doubt by John Patrick Shanley The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Intuition by Allegra Goodman Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Women of Valor by Ellen Hampton The History of Love by Nicole Krauss A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett The River of Doubt by Candice Millard The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Wicked by Gregory Maguire 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima Empire Falls by Russo 1776 by David McCullough The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner Saturday by Ian McEwan Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Night Falls on the City by Sarah Gainham Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Music & Silence by Rose Tremain Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden Other Sorrows, Other Joys by Janet Warner The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Man's Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl Paradise of the Blind, Thu Huong Duong American Pastoral, Philip Roth Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi King Lear, Shakespeare Life of Pi, Yann Martel Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller The Night Inspector, Frederick Busch Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith The Tie That Binds, Kent Haruf Coastliners, Joanne Harris Looking for Lovedu, Ann Jones Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia Atonement, Ian McEwan Baltasar and Blimunda, Jose Saramago The Spirit Catches You, Anne Fadiman Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood The Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen A Land Remembered, Patrick Smith Healing Earthquakes, Jimmy Baca Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier Caravans, James Michener Falling Leaves, Adeline Mah Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean Moby Dick, Herman Melville Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth (Group started 7-2001)
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Zabelle by Nancy Kricorian Heyday by Kurt Anderson Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen March by Geraldine Brooks A year by the Sea by Joan Anderson; (optional) An Unfinished Marriage The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant Digging to America by Anne Tyler Forever by Pete Hamill Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Snow Flower & the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Wife by Meg Wolitzer The March by E.L. Doctorow The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason The Plot against America, Philip Roth Yellow by Dan Lee Herzog by Saul Bellow Alexander Hamilton by Willard Sterne Randall The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri A Fine Balance by Mistry The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides Savage Beauty : Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford The Photograph by Penelope Lively The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler Spies, Michael Frayn Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer Three Junes, Julia Glass Peony, Pearl Buck We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus Secret Life of Bees, Sue Kidd The Nazi Officer's Wife, Edith H. Beer Isabel's Bed, Elinor Lipman Unravelling, Elizabeth Graver Unless, Carol Shields The Mistress of Spices, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Road from Coorain, Jill Conway Carry Me Across the Water, Ethan Canin Last Miracle at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck John Adams, David McCullough The River Midnight, Lilian Nattel Losing Battles, Eudora Welty Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler Peace Like a River, Leif Enger Bel Canto, Ann Patchett Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat Davita's Harp, Chaim Potok Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman Part of the Furniture, Mary Wesley Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende City of God, E. L. Doctorow An Equal Music, Vikram Seth Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig Waiting, Ha Jin (Since 10-2000)