Thursday Evening Book Club
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2008
 
             

October 16 Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map

September 18 Charles Baxter's The Feast of Love

August 21 Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke

June 19 David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

May 15 George Eliot's Middlemarch

April 17 Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

March 20 Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union

February 21 Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea

January 17 Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue

2007
                 

November 15 Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

October 11 Philip Roth's American Pastoral

September 20 Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

August 16 David McCullough's 1776

June 21 Markus Zusak's The Book Thief

May 17 Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier

April 19 Julia Glass' Three Junes

March 15 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

February 15 Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking

January 18 Robertson Davies' Fifth Business

2006
                 

November 16th Jon Hassler's The Staggerford Flood: A Novel

October 19th Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

September 21st Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

August 17th Richard Price's Samaritan

June 15th John Saul's The Unloved

May 18th David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim

April 20th Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

March 16th Patricia Cornwell's Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed

February 16th Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Series and Art Spiegelman's Maus

January 19th Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran

2005
 
               

November 17th Isabel Fonseca's Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies and Their Journey

October 20th Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van)

September 15th Charles Seife's Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

August 18th Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

June 16th Reader's Choice: Roger's Version, S, or A Month of Sundays by John Updike

May 19th Yann Martel's Life of Pi

April 21st Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint

March 17th Rick Moody's Garden State

February 17 Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

January 20 Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

2004
                 

November 18 Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn

October 21 Richard Russo's Empire Falls

September 23 Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

August 19 Anita Diamant's The Red Tent

June 17 Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons

 May 20 Caleb Carr's The Alienist

April 15 Vassily Aksyonov's Generations of Winter

March Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary

February Nick Hornby's About a Boy

January Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak

2003
                 

November Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

October An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter

September Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

August Ahab's Wife, Moby Dick by Sena Jeter, Herman Melville

June Holes by Louis Sachar 

May Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky 

April Look at Me by Jennifer Egan 

March A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 

February Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine 

January Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 

2002
                 

November Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 
 October Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 

September The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

August Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

June Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman

May Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

April West with the Night by Beryl Markham

March Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

February A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

January I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

2001
                 

November Plainsong by Kent Haruf

October The Honey Thief, Ethan Frome by Elizabeth Graver, Edith Wharton

  September Guns, Germs & Steel, Of Mice & Men by Jared M. Diamond, John Steinbeck
  August Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

July Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

  June Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Man Who Was Thursday by Tracy Chevalier, G. K. Chesterton

May I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb

  April Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
  March What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

February All the Pretty Horses by Carmac McCarthy

  January The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2000
               

November The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

 October Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
 September Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

August Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt

July The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

June Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

May How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

April The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

 March Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett