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Our next book discussion:
Too Much Happiness: Stories - by Alice Munro |
NOTE: At our March 19, 2004 meeting we decided to meet on the second Friday of every month - although that almost never seems to work out.
What we've read in the past:
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| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | December 11, 2009 |
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| Annie's Ghosts | Steve Luxenberg | November 13, 2009 |
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| The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Ogawa | October 16, 2009 |
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| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffner Ann Burrows |
April 10, 2009 |
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| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wrobleswki | March 13, 2009 |
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| Dreams From My Father | Barack Obama | February 13, 2009 |
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| Free-Range Chickens | Simon Rich | October 10, 2008 |
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| The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | September 12, 2008 |
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| People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks | May 9, 2008 |
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| Boomsday | Christopher Buckley | March 14, 2008 |
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| Run | Ann Patchett | February 8, 2008 | 
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| On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan | November 9, 2007 |
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| Case Histories | Kate Atkinson | September 14, 2007 |
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| Ghost at the Table | Suzanne Berne | July 13, 2007 |
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| What the Dead Know | Laura Lippman | June 8, 2007 |
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| Fun Home | Alison Bechdel | May 11, 2007 |
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| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | March 9, 2007 |
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| The Stranger | Albert Camus | February 7, 2007 |
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| Judy's House | Judy | February 7, 2007 | 
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| Digging to America | Anne Tyler | November 17, 2006 |
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| Borat (movie) | Sacha Baron Cohen | December 8, 2006 |
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| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky | October 13, 2006 |
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| Donna's beautiful new house | Donna & Larry | September 9, 2006 |
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| Michael's artful arrangement of the food on Donna's table | Michael | September 9, 2006 |
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| Everyman | Philip Roth | August 11, 2006 | 
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| Dry: a memoir |
Augusten Burroughs |
June 16, 2006 |
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| How I Live Now |
Meg Rosoff |
May 12, 2006 |
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| The March |
E. L. Doctorow |
April 14, 2006 |
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| West of Kabul, East of New York |
Tamim Ansary |
February 10, 2006 |
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| The Namesake |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
October 14, 2005 |
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| The Glass Castle |
Jeannette Walls |
September 9, 2005 |
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| The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
July 8, 2005 |
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| My Sister's Keeper |
Jodi Picoult |
March 11, 2005 |
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| Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Mark Haddon |
November 12, 2004 |
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| Life of Pi | Yan Martel | September 10, 2004 |
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| Bangkok 8 | John Burdett | May 14, 2004 |
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| Charms for the Easy Life | Kaye Gibbons | March 19, 2004 |
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| Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand | May 16, 2003 |
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| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | April 4, 2003 |
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| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | March 7, 2003 |
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| Wicked - the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West | Gregory Maguire | January 31,2003 |
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| Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich | Sep. 13, 2002 |
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| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay | Daniel Mark Epstein | Jul. 26, 2002 |
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| Comfort and Joy | Jim Grimsley | Jun. 30, 2002 |
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| The Chocolate Covered Almonds Lila brought us from France | I didn't read the label. | May 17, 2002 |
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| Ordinary Life | Elizabeth Berg | May 17, 2002 |
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| Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares | Apr. 12, 2002 |
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| The Rag and Bone Shop | Robert Cormier | Apr. 12, 2002 |
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| Ten Poems to Change Your Life | Roger Housden | Mar. 8, 2002 |
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| The Dubliners | James Joyce | Feb. 1, 2002 |
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| Diary of an Hour | Kate Chopin | Dec. 14, 2001 |
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| The Grand Complication | Allen Kurzweil | Nov. 2, 2001 | 
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| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | Aug. 24, 2001 |
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| Girl with the Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | Jun. 29, 2001 |
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| Beekeeper's Apprentice | Laurie R. King | May 11, 2001 | 
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| Night Listener | Armistead Maupin | Apr. l 6, 2001 |
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| The Death of Vishnu | Manil Suri | Mar. 9, 2001 |
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| Pobby and Dingan | Ben Rice | Feb. 16, 2001 |
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| Shopgirl | Steve Martin | Jan. 9, 2001 |
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| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | Dec. 5, 2000 |
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| Becoming Madame Mao | Anchee Min | Oct. 3, 2000 |
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| Waiting | Ha Jin | Sep. 5, 2000 |
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| Lost Geography | Charlotte Bacon | Aug. 1, 2000 |
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| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | Jun. 13, 2000 |
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| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | May 2, 2000 |
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| Titles from the Invisible Life series | E. Lynn Harris | Mar. 7, 2000 |
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| Three Women | Marge Piercy | Jan. 4, 2000 |
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| The Reader | Bernhard Schlink | Nov. 2, 1999 |
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| Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | Sep. 2, 1999 |
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| Lamb in Love | Carrie Brown | May 1, 1999 |
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| Holes | Louis Sachar | Apr. 20, 1999 |
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| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | Jan. 22, 1999 | 
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| Crazy in Alabama | Mark Childress | Dec. 8, 1998 |
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| Cavedweller | Dorothy Allison | Nov. 17, 1998 |
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| Bad Seed | William March | Oct. 13, 1998 |
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| Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | Sep. 15, 1998 |
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| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | Aug. 11, 1998 |
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| Children of Men | P. D. James | Jul. 7, 1998 |
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| Four Letters of Love | Niall Williams | June 2, 1998 |
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| Top Dog | J. David Pincus | May 12, 1998 |
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| What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | Pearl Cleage | May 12, 1998 |
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| God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Mar. 3, 1998 |
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| Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow | Feb. 3, 1998 |
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| What Girls Learn | Karin Cook | Jan. 6, 1998 |
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| Into Thin Air | John Krakauer | Dec. 2, 1997 |
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| Edible Woman | Margaret Atwood | Nov. 4, 1997 |
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| House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
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| Aguero Sisters | Cristina Garcia |
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| White Crosses | Larry Watson |
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Titles we read before we started voting for them:
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