Books We Were Reading

Just looking for something good to read? Here are some books chosen for our book discussion groups in past years.

• The Reader
• Reading Lolita in Tehran
• The Red Tent
• Reservation Blues
• The Road
• The Samurai's Garden
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend
• The Secret Life of Bees
• The Secret River
• Shadow Divers
• The Shipping News
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
• The Silver Linings Playbook
• Small Wonder
• Snow
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Sometimes a Great Notion
• The Sparrow
• Stranger in the Forest
• Suite Française
• The Sweet Hereafter
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Tallgrass
• Tender at the Bone
• The Thirteenth Tale
• Three Cups of Tea
• Three Junes
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Too Close to the Falls
• The Tortilla Curtain
• Truck: A Love Story
• Truth and Beauty
• Two Years Before the Mast
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
• Water for Elephants
• What is the What
• When All the World Was Young
• The Windup Girl
• The Woman Warrior
• The Worst Hard Time
• The Year of Fog
• Year of Wonders
• The Zookeeper's Wife

• After This
• All Over but the Shoutin'
• Always Running
• Angle of Repose
• The Archivist
• The Art of Racing in the Rain
• Atonement
• Baker Towers
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Bee Season
• Bel Canto
• The Birth of Venus
• Black Dog of Fate
• Blackbird House
• The Book of Air and Shadows
• The Book of Salt
• The Book Thief
• The Call of the Wild
• Case Histories
• Cat's Cradle
• The Cellist of Sarajevo
• City of Thieves
• Cold Mountain
• The Color of Water
• Corelli's Mandolin
• The Curious Incident of the
  Dog in the Night-time
• Daughter of Fortune
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• The Death of Vishnu
• The Devil in the White City
• Digging to America
• Disgrace
• The Dive from Clausen's Pier
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
• Dream of the Red Chamber
• Dreams from My Father
• Dubliners / Portrait
  of the Artist as a Young Man
• The Echo Maker
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• Empire Falls
• Enrique’s Journey
• Fahrenheit 451
• Fast Food Nation
• The Finishing School
• Funny in Farsi

• The Geography of Bliss
• The Ghost Map
• Gilead
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• The Glass Castle
• The God of Small Things
• A Gracious Plenty
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Growing Seasons
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• A House for Mr. Biswas
• The House of Sand and Fog
• The House of the Spirits
• The Housekeeper and the Professor
• The Hummingbird's Daughter
• In a Sunburned Country
• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
• Into the Forest
• Jayber Crow
• The Kite Runner
• The Known World
• The Ladies Auxiliary
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Life of Pi
• A Long Way Down
• The Lovely Bones
• Loving Pedro Infante
• Macbeth
• The Madonnas of Leningrad
• March
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• My Ántonia
• My Year of Meats
• Never Let Me Go
• Nickel and Dimed
• Nine Parts of Desire
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
• Out Stealing Horses
• Peace Like a River
• The Piano Tuner
• The Plague of Doves
• Plainsong
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
• The Professor and the Madman

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