Book Discussion Titles

TITLES

1990

The Quest For Identity- Book Bag theme

Rosellen Brown – Cora Fry

Raymond Carver – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Kate Chopin – The Awakening

Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon

Consider the Source - Book bag theme

John Gardener – Grendel

Zora Neale Hurston – Moses, Man of the Mountain

Leslie Marmon Silko – Ceremony

Fay Weldon – The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

1991

Growing Up, Growing Old- Book Bag theme

Bruce Chatwin – On the Black Hill

Tillie Olson – Tell Me a Riddle

Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping

Alice Walker – The Color Purple

My Family, Myself- Book bag theme

Ivan Doig – This House of Sky

Margaret Drabble – Realms of Gold

Toni Morrison – Sula

Anne Tyler – Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

1992

Not For Children Only- Book Bag theme

Louisa May Alcott – Little Women

Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows

Iona & Peter Opie – Tatterhood and Other Tales

Destruction or Redemption: Images of Romantic Love- Book Bag theme

Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary

John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Graham Greene – The End of the Affair

Anne Tyler – Morgan’s Passing

1993

The Quest for the American Dream- Book Bag theme

Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman

Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence

Walt Whitman – Song of Myself

A Natural Wilderness – Book Bag theme

Henry Beston – The Outermost House

Sue Hubbell – A Country Year

John McPhee – Encounters With the Archdruid

Louise Dickinson Rich – We Took to the Woods

1994

Nadine Gordimer – Burger’s Daughter

Josephine Tey – Daughter of Time

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Chronicle of a Death Foretold

D.H. Lawrence – The Rainbow

Annie Dillard – A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Elizabeth Ogilvie – High Tide at Noon

Owen Wister – The Virginian

Tim O’Brien – Going After Cacciato

Willa Cather – O Pioneers

1995

Grace Metalious – Peyton Place

Ronald Jager – Last House on the Road

Jill Ker Conway – The Road From Coorain

Favorite Books Session

Rebecca Rule – The Best Revenge

Whitney Otto – How to Make an American Quilt

1996

E. Anne Proulx – The Shipping News

Harriet Doerr – Stones For Ibarra

A.S. Byatt – Possession

Beth Henley – Crimes of the Heart

Josephine Humphries – Dreams of Sleep

Jean Sasson – Princess

May Sarton – The Magnificent Spinster

Anna Quindlen – Object Lessons

1997

Alix Kates Shulman – Drinking the Rain

Elizabeth Berg – Talk Before Sleep

Kaye Gibbons – Ellen Foster

Michael Dorris – A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Ernest Gaines – A Lesson Before Dying

Favorite Books Session

Wallace Stegner – Crossing to Safety

Jane Hamilton – A Map of the World

Sandra Dallas – The Persian Pickle Club

 1998

Howard Frank Mosher – Northern Borders

Jane Smiley – Ordinary Love and Goodwill

David Guterson – Snow Falling on Cedars

Gail Godwin – A Mother and Two Daughters

Bailey White – Sleeping at the Starlite Motel

Oswald  Wynd – The Ginger Tree

Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient

Willa Cather – Shadows on the Rock

1999

Nicholas Gage – Eleni

Barbara Kingsolver – Homeland . . .

Larry Watson – Montana 1948

Jon Krakauer – Into Thin Air

Lois Battle – The Past is Another Country

James McBride – The Color of Water

Gene Stratton-Porter – Girl of the Limberlost

Mitch Albom – Tuesdays With Morrie

Louis DeBernieres – Corelli’s Mandolin

Adele Crockett Robertson – The Orchard

2000

Susanna Kaysen – Girl, Interrupted

Julia Older – The Island Queen

Chris Bohjalian – Midwives

Caroline Alexander – The Endurance

Lois Lowry – Giver

Favorite Books Session

Bobbie Ann Mason – Shiloh And Other Stories

Clyde Edgerton – Raney

Dori Sanders – Clover

 2001

Beryl Markham – West With the Night

Eudora Welty – The Ponder Heart

P.G. Wodehouse – Pigs Have Wings

Michael Patrick MacDonald – All Souls

Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong

Jehan Sadat – A Woman of Egypt

Nomi Eve – A Family Orchard

Donna Cross – Pope Joan

Rick Bragg – All Over But the Shoutin’

Myla Golberg – Bee Season

2002

Geraldine Brooks – Nine Parts of Desire

Susan Minot – Evening

Elizabeth Kim – Ten Thousand Sorrows

Zadie Smith – White Teeth

Simon Winchester – The Professor and the Madman

Susan Vreeland – Girl In Hyacinth Blue

Lucy Grealy – Autobiography Of A Face

Jamaica Kincaid – Annie John

Terry Ryan – The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Susanna Fisher Staples – Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Alexandra Fuller – Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight

Holiday Book Review

2003

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

Barbara Chase-Riboud – Sally Hemings

Joseph Ellis – American Sphinx

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Mistress Of Spices

Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

Sherman Alexie – Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight In Heaven

Mary Karr – The Liars Club

Thomas Hardy – Return of the Native

Stephen King – On Writing

Harriet Scott Chesman – Lydia Cassatt Reading The Morning Paper

Favorite Books Session

 2004

Barry Lopez – Arctic Dreams

Jhumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies

Nuala O’Faolain – Are You Somebody

Angela Huth – Land Girls

Anchee Min – Red Azalea

Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

Susan Orlean – The Orchid Thief

Jodi Picoult – Second Glance

Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived In The Castle

Ruth Reichl – Tender At The Bone

2005

Daniel Mason – The Piano Tuner

Toni Morrison – Love

Erik Larson – The Devil In The White City

Deborah Larsen – The White

Joan Anderson – A Year By The Sea

Rosellen Brown – Before And After

William Pollack – Real Boys

Philip Roth – The Human Stain

David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day

Penelope Fitzgerald – The Bookshop

Mary Pipher – The Middle of Everywhere

2006

Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

Emma McLaughlin – Nanny Diaries

Lori Alvord – The Scalpel and the Silver Bear

Gail Tsukiyama – Women of the Silk

Barbara Ehrenreich – Nickel and Dimed

Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart

Jon Krakauer – Under the Banner of Heaven

Monica Ali – Brick Lane

Russell Banks – Trailerpark

Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential

Nancy Thayer – Hot Flash Holidays

2007

Anne Fadiman – The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Charles Baxter – The Feast of Love

Tracy Kidder – Old Friends

Harriet Wilson – Our Nig

David M. Carroll – Swampwalker’s Journal

Pete Hamill – Snow In August

Adeline Yen Mah – Falling Leaves

Henry James – Turn of the Screw

Mary Crow Dog – Lakota Woman

2008

Ernest Hebert – The Dogs of March

Jane Austen – Persuasion

Maxine Kumin- Women, Animals, and Vegetables

Charlotte Bacon – There Is Room For You

Sandy Tolan – The Lemon Tree

Roberta Isleib – Deadly Advice

George Howe Colt – The Big House

Josephine Humphreys – Nowhere Else On Earth

Olga Kharitidi – Entering the Circle

Katherine Towler – Evening Ferry

Elizabeth Noble – The Reading Group

2009

Martha Hodes – The Sea Captain’s Wife

Daphne DuMaurier – Rebecca

Kate Braestrup – Here If You Need Me

Kate Furnivall – The Red Scarf

Michael Pollan – The Botany of Desire

Barbara Pym – An Unsuitable Attachment

Sarah Vowell – The Wordy Shipmates

Diane Setterfield – The Thirteenth Tale

Zoya – Zoya’s Story

Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle

 2010

Janet Wallach – Desert Queen

Nicole Mones – Lost in Translation

Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

Howard Mansfield – Bones of the Earth

Hanna Jansen – Over a Thousand Hills

Richard Preston – The Wild Trees

Geraldine Brooks -  Year of Wonders

Yoko Ogawa – The Housekeeper and the Professor

Titia Bozuwa – In the Shadow of the Cathedral

Jamie Ford – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

2011

Dave Eggers- Zeitoun

Carrie Brown – Lamb in Love

Julie Powell – Julie and Julia

Stephanie Kallos – Broken for you

Ben Hewitt – The Town that Food Saved: how one community found vitality in local food

Amy Greene – Bloodroot

Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

Silas House – Parchment of Leaves

William Cronon – Changes in the Land

Luis Alberto Urrea – The Hummingbird’s Daughter

2012

Kristoff, Nicholas – Half the sky

Levithan, David – The Lover’s Dictionary

Horan, Nancy – Loving Frank

Jewett, Sarah Orne – Country of the Pointed Firs

Grennan, Conor – Little Princes: one man’s promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal

Hodgkinson, Amanda – 22 Britannia Road

 Walls, Jeannette – The Glass Castle: a memoir

Brennert, Alan – Moloka’i

Poe, Edgar Allen – The Gold Bug and other Stories (NH Reads)

White, Neil – In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

Favorite Book Session

2013

Merullo, Roland - Breakfast with Buddha

 Skloot, Rebecca -  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Vreeland, Susan – Clare and Mr. Tiffany