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Monday Night Book Club Selections 2001-2007

Books Read in 2007:

January:  Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
February:  Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
March: Intuition by Allegra Goodman
April: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
May: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
June: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
July: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
August: Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Ogalalas by Mari Sandoz
September: Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
October: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
November: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
December: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Books Read in 2006:

January:  The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
February:  Local Wonders by Ted Kooser
March/April: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
May: Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
June: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
July: One False Move by Alex Kava
August: Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
September: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
October: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
November: Night by Elie Wiesel
December: Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

Books Read in 2005:

January:  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
February:  Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
March:  My Antonia by Willa Cather
April:  Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
May:  Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delaney with Amy Hill Hearth
June:  That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
July:  The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini
August:  Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
September:  Blessings by Anna Quindlen
October:  Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin
November:  Outside Valentine by Liza Ward
December:  Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Books Read in 2004

January:
  Three Junes by Julia Glass
February:  A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
March:  The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
April:  Isn't It Romantic? by Ron Hansen
May:  Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz
June:  Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
July:  Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler
August:  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
September:  Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (first half) by Walter Isaacson
October:  Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (second half) by Walter Isaacson
November:  Life of Pi by Yann Martel
December:  Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Books Read in 2003

January:
  A Fine Balance (first half) by Rohinton Mistry
February:  A Fine Balance (second half) by Rohinton Mistry
March:  The Hours by Michael Cunningham
April:  Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
May:  Atonement by Ian McEwan
June:  The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
July:  The Last Report of Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
August:  John Adams (first half) by David McCullough
September:  John Adams (second half) by David McCullough
October:  Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
November:  The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
December:  The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

Books Read in 2002

January:
  Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
February:  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
March:  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
April:  Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
May:  Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
June:  A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
July:  Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
August:  Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
September:  Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
October:  Beach Music by Pat Conroy
November:  The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
December:  The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

Books Read in 2001

April:  Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
May:  Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
June:  The Color of Water by James McBride
July:  A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
August:  No Ordinary Time (first half) by Doris Kearns Goodwin
September:  No Ordinary Time (second half) by Doris Kearns Goodwin
October:  Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
November:  Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
December:  Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

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