Book Group Connections

A

*Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
Aiding and Abetting, Muriel Spark
Ain’t No Mountain, Sharon Ewell Foster
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
All He Ever Wanted, Anita Shreve
*All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Almost French, Sarah Turnbull
*The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
America America, Ethan Canin
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
American Creation, Joseph J. Ellis
American Fuji, Sara Backer
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
*American Rust, Philipp Meyer
*Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
*Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout
*Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
*Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins
Antigone, Sophocles
*The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Astrid and Veronika, Linda Olsson
At Weddings and Wakes, Alice McDermott
*Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Attack, Yasmina Khadra
Audition, Barbara Walters
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
*Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
The Awakening, Kate Chopin

B

*Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler
*Bald in the Land of Big Hair, Joni Rodgers
*Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Sijie Dai
Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Becoming Madame Mao, Anchee Min
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
*Before You Know Kindness, Chris Bohjalian
*Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
Between, Georgia, Joshilyn Jackson
Bird in Hand, Christina Baker Kline
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Blessings, Anna Quindlan
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
*The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
The Book of Salt, Monique Truong
*The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
*Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
*Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman

C

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Cider House Rules, John Irving
The Coffee Trader, David Liss
*The Color of Water, James McBride
*The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Columbine, Dave Cullen
*The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
*Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese

D

*The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig
*Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill
*The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
*The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
*Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
The Ditchdigger's Daughters, Yvonne Thornton
The Dive from Clausen's Pier, Ann Packer
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells

E

*East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Elements of Style, Wendy Wasserstein
The Emancipator's Wife, Barbara Hambly
*Embers, Sandor Marai
The Emigrants, Vilhelm Moberg
*Empire Falls, Richard Russo
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
The Evening Star, Larry McMurtry
Eventide, Kent Haruf
Everyday People, Stewart O'Nan
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Exodus, Leon Uris

F

The Family, Mario Puzo
Family Album, Penelope Lively
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
The Fifties, David Halbertam
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The First Man, Albert Camus
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents, Bonnie Angelo
*Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
*For Kings and Planets, Ethan Canin
For One More Day, Mitch Albom
*For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Fortunate Pilgrim, Mario Puzo
*Fortune's Rocks, Anita Shreve
*Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis
*Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts
*Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
The Future Homemakers of America, Laurie Graham

G

*Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
*Gertrude and Claudius, John Updike
Giants in the Earth, Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
*Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
*Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Girls From Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow
The Giver, Lois Lowry
*The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Gone for Good, Harlan Coben
*The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
*The Good German, Joseph Kanon
Good to Great, Jim Collins
Grayson, Lynne Cox
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond

H

Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
Hands of My Father, Myron Uhlberg
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom
*The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Heir to the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick
Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress, Martha Frick Symington Sanger
*The Help, Kathryn Stockett
*Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman
Herzog, Saul Bellow
*Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped our Recent History, Kati Marton
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Homer and Langley, E.L. Doctorow
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
House Rules, Jodi Picoult
*Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Howard's End, E.M. Forster
*The Human Stain, Philip Roth

I

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
*In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
*In Sunlight in a Beautiful Garden, Kathleen Cambor
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien
Independent People, Halldor Laxness
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Alli
The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman
*Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
*Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

J

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Jew Store, Stella Suberman
John Adams, David McCullough
Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy, Fawaz A. Gerges
Julie and Romeo, Jeanne Ray

K

The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith
*The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
*The Known World, Edward P. Jones

L

*The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
*Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan
The Last Time They Met, Anita Shreve
The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken
*Life of Pi, Yann Martel
*Light on Snow, Anita Shreve
Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Long Time No See, Susan Isaacs
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe
Lost Horizon, James Hilton
*Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
*Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
Luncheon of the Boating Party, Susan Vreeland

M

*The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
*March, Geraldine Brooks
*The Maytrees, Annie Dillard
Meet You in Hell, Les Standiford
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
*The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
*The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker
Middlemarch, George Eliot
*Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Moonlight in Odessa, Janet Skeslein Charles
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
My Antonia, Willa Cather
My Dream of You, Nuala O'Faolain
*My Jim, Nancy Rawles
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
*My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie

N

*The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Nana, Emile Zola
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
*Night, Elie Wiesel
The Nine: Inside the World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin
*Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Geraldine Brooks
1984, George Orwell
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith

O

The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Old School, Tobias Wolff
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean
The Ornament of the World, Maria Rosa Menocal
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Out of this Furnace, Thomas Bell
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell

P

A Painted House, John Grisham
The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
Pearl, Mary Gordon
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
Peony in Love, Lisa See
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
The Peppered Moth, Margaret Drabble
Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac
The Photograph, Penelope Lively
The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
*The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
*The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Pope Joan , Donna Woolfolk Cross
Possession, A.S. Byatt
*Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
*Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
*The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester

Q

Queen of the Underworld, Gail Godwin
*The Quiet American, Graham Greene

R

Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor
Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
*The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
*Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
*Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Red Azalea, Anchee Min
*The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
*A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
Restless, William Boyd
Returning to Earth, James Harrison
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox
Rose, Martin Cruz Smith
Run, Ann Patchett
Runaway: Stories, Alice Munro
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs

S

*Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Beth Hoffman
*The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
*Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
*The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
*A Separate Country, Robert Hicks
The Shack, William P. Young
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
*Skull Duggery, Aaron Elkins
Small Island, Andrea Levy
Snow, Orhan Pamuk
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
Solar, Ian McEwan
The Soloist, Steve Lopez
Some Sing, Some Cry, Ntozake Shange
*The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar
The Spencers of Amberson Avenue, Ethel Spencer
Standing in the Rainbow, Fannie Flagg
State of Fear, Michael Crichton
Steel Magnolias, Robert Harling
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
The Story of a Marriage, Andrew Sean Greer
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
Suite Francaise, Irène Némirovsky

T

Taken, Kathleen George
*A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
That Old Ace in the Hole, Annie Proulx
That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
*Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
*Three Junes, Julia Glass
*The Time of Our Singing, Richard Powers
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott
Traveling with Pomegranates, Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
*Turbulent Souls, Stephen Dubner
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life, Cami Walker
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria, William Trevor
Two Old Women, Velma Wallis

U

*Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand
*Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Unless, Carol Shields
The Used World, Haven Kimmel

V

The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult
The Valley of Decision, Marcia Davenport
The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
Voss, Patrick White

W

Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
*A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Washington Square, Henry James
*Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
*Watership Down, Richard Adams
We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Peter Godwin
When Skateboards Will Be Free, Said Sayrafiezadeh
When Smoke Ran Like Water, Devra Davis
When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka
While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Whore's Child, Richard Russo
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire
A Widow for One Year, John Irving
Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Woman Behind the New Deal, Kristin Downey
The Women of Troy Hill, Clare Ansberry
Wonderful Fool, Shusaku Endo
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
The World of Normal Boys, Karl Soehnlein

Y

The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
*Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon

Z

The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman