The morning book group meets the first Friday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. New members are welcome. If you would like to join, please stop by the Reference desk at the library.

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2012

Lucy by Ellen Feldman
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
A Call From Jersey by P.F. Kluge
The Illuminator by Brenda Vantrease
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Trespass by Rose Tremain
Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett
The Quest for Anna Klein by Thomas Cook
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

2011

The Photograph by Penelope Lively
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

2010

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

2009

A Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street  by Helene Hanff
Strapless by Deborah Davis
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Out Stealing Horses  by Per Pettersen
Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris

2008

Shadow Man by Mary Gordon
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Life of Privilege, Mostly by Gardner Botsford
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
North River by Pete Hamill
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

2007

Old New York: Four Novellas by Edith Wharton
Closing Arguments by Frederick Busch
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham
The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

2006

The Seal Wife by Katherine Harrison
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami Haruki
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

2005

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen

2004

La Cucina : a Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior
One Thousand White Women : the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Philippe Mason
Angry Housewives Eating Bon-bons by Lorna Landvik
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Black Boy by Richard Wright

2003

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo
Selling of Lite Heaven by Suzanne Strempek Shea
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Guenevere : Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Miles
The Captain’s Wife by Douglas Kelley
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

2002

The Parrot Who Owns Me : The Story of a Relationship by Joanna Burger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Ladies’ Man by Elinor Lipman
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Stern Men by Elizabeth Glibert
Republic of Love by Carol Shields
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken

2001

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel : and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home by Bailey White
The Color of Water : A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Pope Joan by Donna Cross
The Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
A Spanish Lover by Joanna Trollope