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| My all-women bookclub - because men don't read the books yet dominate the conversation. Left to right: Elizabeth, Rachel, Melissa, Leslie, Bea. |
I bring up my bookclub now because I recently joined Goodreads, and found the list below useful for filling my bookshelves. Many of the books, however, got 3 out of 5 stars because I kept asking myself, "Really, we read that?"
2001-2002:
October: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
November: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
December: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
January: A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
February: Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich
March: My Century by Gunter Grass
April: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
May: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
June: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
July: The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
August: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
September: Kamasutra translated by Wendy Doniger
Other members: Hannah, Andrea, Lenore
2002-2003:
October: "Diving into the Wreck" (poem) by Adrienne Rich
November: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
December: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
February: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
March: A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
April: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
May: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
June: Atonement by Ian McEwan
July: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Other members: Evelina
2003-2004:
October: Daisy Miller by Henry James
November: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
December: Emma by Jane Austen
January: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
February: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
March: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
April: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
May: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
June: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
Other members: Corinne, Richa, Megan
2004-2005:
September: Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greeley
November: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
December: Plainsong by Kent Haruf
January: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
February: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
March: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
April: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
May: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
June: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
July: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
August: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
2005-2006:
September: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
October: The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
November: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
December: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
February: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
March: Runaway by Alice Munro
April: Shopgirl by Steve Martin
June: Close Range by Annie Proulx
July: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Other members: Saeko
2006-2007:
September: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
October: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Feb: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
[Hiatus until members' babies grow up a bit.]
2011-2012:
October: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
November: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
January: Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
February: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
March: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
April: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
May: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
June: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
July: Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
August: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Other members: Alison, Jane
