Our book group has been meeting for 6 years! It is so fun to look back on all of the books that we have read over the past years. Some of you have asked for a list so here it is...
List of the titles that our book group has read & discussed
(in the order we have read them).
2006
| “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger “Persian Pickle Club” by Sandra Dallas “Murder on the Middle Fork” by Don Ian Smith “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay “Elantris” by Brandon Sanderson “A Northern Light” by Jennifer Donnelly “Peril at End House” by Agatha Christie and one book of your choice by Agatha Christie “The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith |
2007
| “Poison Study” by Maria V. Snyder “Flying Crows” by Jim Lehrar “Falling Leaves” by Adeline Yen Mah “Mrs. Mike” by Benedict Freedman “Timeline” by Michael Crichton “S is for Silence” by Sue Grafton “Three Cups of Tea” Greg Mortenson Retold Fairy Tale of your choice “The Tea Rose” by Jennifer Donnelly “My Sisters Keeper” Jodi Picoult Banned or challenged book of your choice “Christmas Letters” Debbie Macomber |
2008
| “A Town Like Alice” by Nevil Shute “Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west” by Gregory Maguire “Tallgrass” by Sandra Dallas “A Great and Terrible Beauty” by Libba Bray “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson “The Book Thief” by Markus Zasak “The Princess and the Hound” by Mette Ivie Harrison “The Book of Lost Things” by John Connolly Arthurian Legend themed book or your choice “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyer “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield “Winterdance” by Gary Paulsen |
2009
| “The Thin Woman” by Dorothy Cannell “The Naming” by Alison Croggon “Moon Medicine” by Mike Blakely “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston “The Alchemyst” by Michael Scott and/or “Edymion Spring” by Matthew Skelton “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See “Stepsister Scheme” by Jim C. Hines “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen Banned Book of your choice “These Is My Words” by Nancy Turner “The Christmas Carol” by Dickens and ”The best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Robinson |
2010
| “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski “Sarah Canary” by Karen Joy Fowler “Emma” by Jane Austen “Dewey: The small town library cat who touched the world” by Vicki Myron “Book of Unholy Mischief” by Elle Newmark “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins “The Host” by Stephanie Meyer Banned Book of your choice “The Forgotten Garden” by Kate Morton “Santa Clawed” by Rita Mae Brown “The Devlin Diary” by Christi Phillips |
2011
| “Prayers for Sale” by Sandra Dallas “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” by Laurie R. King “Hearts of Horses” by Molly Gloss “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” by Alan Bradley Novel Destinations: book of your choice that takes place somewhere you have always wanted to go. (Based on the summer reading program theme) “The Island” by Victoria Hislop “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare Banned book of your choice and or To Kill a Mockingbird “Seer of Shadows” by AVI “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett |
