SEPT '09 TO JUNE '10 LINE-UP
September: Book of Negroes-Lawrence Hill
October 13: Three Cups of Tea - by Greg Mortenson (Ave Joe's)
November: The Cellist of Sarajievo
December: The Uncommon Reader-Alan Bennett
January: Love in the Time of Cholera - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
February: The Reluctant Genius by Charlotte Gray
March: The Confederacy of Dunces - by John Kennedy Toole
April: Through Black spruce-Joseph Boyden
May: The Guernsey Literacy and Potato Peel Pie Society-Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
June: The Last Child in the Woods
Considerations
McCarthy's Bar-Peter McCarthy
4. A Stroke of Insight - by Jill Bolte Taylor
5. The Plain Truth - by Jodi Picoult (or any other title by Jodi Picoult
6. Fannie Fay and the Medicine Man - by Fannie Flag
7. The Secret Life of Bees - by Sue Monk Kidd 8. Sugar - by Elizabeth Abbott
9. Revolutionary Road - by Richard Yates
10. The Traveller's Gift - by Andy Andrews
11. The Reader - by Bernhard Schlink
13. Little Bee - by Chris Cleave
14. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - by John Boyn
17. “Revolutionary Road”- Richard Yates
18. “Still Place” -Lisa Genova
19. Snow Country - by Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel prize winning - Japanese author
20. The English Major - by Jim Harrison - a tragedy recast as a comedy - at times quite funny
21. Dangerous Laughter - by Steve Millhauser
22. Netherland - by Joseph O'Neill - witty, angry, exacting
23. Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri
24. Ficciones - by Jorge Luis Borges - anthology of short stories - demonstrates the gargantuan powers of the imagination, intelligence and style of one of the greatest writers - Argentinean - slim volume - approx. 100 pages
Additional Titles by Jodi Picoult - Change of Heart - Nineteen Minutes - My Sister's Keeper - Keeping Faith - Mercy - The Pact - The Tenth Circle - Vanishing Acts - Salem Falls - Picture Perfect - Songs of the Humpback Whale - Harvesting the Heart - Perfect Match - Second Glance
Last session's list:
1. World without End by Ken Follett
2. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsh Ali
3. Bell Canto by Ann Patchett
4. Drowning Ruth by Christina Swartz
5. The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
6. She's Come Undoneby Wally Lamb
7. Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildner
8. Late NIghts on Air by Elizabeth Hay
9. The Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence
10. The Shack