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 Year

 Title

 Author

 Rating

1999

      

October                                        

  A Star Called Henry   Roddy Doyle   NR
 November  Robinson Crusoe   Daniel DeFoe   NR
 December  Guns, Germs & Steel   Jared Diamond   NR
       

2000

      
 January  The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch             NR
 February   A Gathering of Old Men  Ernest Gaines                            NR
 March  The Confessions of Nat Turner  William Styron  NR
 April  Measuring the Universe  Kitty Ferguson  NR
 May  Juneteenth  Ralph Ellison      NR
 June  Disgrace  J.M. Coetzee     5.00
 July  Crossing To Safety  Wallace Stegner  NR
 August  The Quiet Game  Greg Iles  NR
 September  Heart of Darkness  Joseph Conrad  NR
 October  A Tale of Two Cities  Charles Dickens  NR
 Novemeber  Into Thin Air  Jon Krakauer    NR
 December  Light In August  William Faulkner  NR
       
 2001      
 January  White Oleander  Janet Fitch  NR
 February  The Black Flower  Howard Bahr  NR
 March  A Death In the Family  James Agee       NR
 April  The Bridge at Andau  James Michener  NR
 May  The Things They Carried  Tim Obrien  NR
 June  The Poisonwood Bible  Barbara Kingsolver  NR
 July  All The Pretty Horses  Cormack McCarthy  NR
 August  We Were the Mulvaneys  Joyce Carol Oates  NR
 September  Meeting Cancelled (9/11)  N/A  N/A
 October  The Picture of Dorian Gray  Oscar Wilde  NR
 November  The Count of Monte Cristo  Alexander Dumas  NR
 December  For Whom the Bell Tolls  Ernest Hemingway  NR
       
 2002      
 January  Angle of Repose  Wallace Stegner  NR
 February  The Bend In the River   V.S. Naipal  NR
 March  Provinces of Night William Gay  NR
 April  The Heart of the Matter  Graham Greene  NR
 May  Henderson the Rain King  Saul Bellow  NR
 June  Appointment In Samarra  John O’Hara     NR
 July  The Great Gatsby  F. Scott Fitzgerald         NR
 August  Undaunted Courage  Stephen Ambrose  NR
 September  Meeting Cancelled  N/A  NR
 October  The Corrections  Jonathon Franzen  NR
 November  The Killer Angels  Michael Shaara  NR
 December  In Cold Blood  Truman Capote  NR
       
 2003      
 January  Into the Wild  Jon Krakauer  NR
 February  Huckleberry Finn  Mark Twain  NR
 March  Atonement  Ian McEwen  NR
 April  Sailing Alone Around the Room  Billy Collins  NR
 May (2)  Amsterdam  Ian McEwen  NR
   Waiting for the Barbarians  J.M. Coetzee     NR
 June  To America       Stephen Ambrose  NR
 July  The Moon and Sixpence  W. Somerset Maugham  NR
 August  My Losing Season  Pat Conroy        NR
 September  House of Sand and Fog  Andre Dubus  NR
 October  Catch 22  Joseph Heller  NR
 November  A Farewell To Arms  Ernest Hemingway  NR
 December  Ben Franklin      Walter Isaacson  NR
       
 2004      
 January  Slaughterhouse Five  Kurt Vonnegut  NR
 February  Grapes of Wrath  John Steinbeck  5.00
 March  Charming Billy  Alice McDermott  NR
 April  The Gathering Storm  Winston Churchill  NR
 May  The Power and the Glory  Graham Greene  NR
 June  Lie Down in Darkness  William Styron  NR
 July  A Prayer for Owen Meany  John Irving  NR
 August  The Known World        Edward P. Jones  NR
 September  The Professor and the Madman  Simon Winchester  NR
 October  Babbit  Sinclair Lewis  2.91
 November  A Study in Scarlet  Arthur Conan Doyle  3.56
 December  A Stranger in a Strange Land  Robert Heinlein  3.25
       
 2005      
 January  Under the Banner of Heaven  Jon Krakauer  3.75 
 February  The Honorable Schoolboy  John LeCarre    3.50
 March  A House for Mr. Biswas  V.S. Naipal  NR
 April  Collapse  Jared Diamond  4.29
 May  Lord Jim  Joseph Conrad  4.67
 June  The Fencing Master  Arturo Perez-Reverte  3.30
 July  All the Kings Men  Robert Penn Warren  4.86
 August  The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini  4.50
September  The Sun Also Rises  Ernest Hemingway  2.50
October  A Burntout Case  Graham Greene  4.03
 November  The Optimist’s Daughter  Eudora Welty  4.71
 December  The Devil In the White City  Erik Larsen  3.30
       
 2006      
 January  A Summons to Memphis  Peter Taylor      4.28
 February  Stones From the River  Ursula Hegi  3.68
 March  To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee  4.875
 April  A Brief History of Time  Stephen Hawking  4.05
 May  Germinal  Emile Zola  4.29
 June  1776  David McCullough  3.97
 July  Emperor of Ocean Park  Stephen Carter  3.25
 August  The Quiet American  Graham Greene  4.41
 September (2)  My Life With Melancholy Whores  Gabriel Garcia Marquez  NR
   Lolita     Vladimir Nabokov  NR
 October  Summer of the Gods  Edward J. Larson  4.00
 November  Widow of the South  Robert Hicks  3.60
 December  The Red Badge of Courage  Stephen Crane   3.84
       
 2007      
 January  The Crying of Lot 49  Thomas Pynchon  1.83
 February  Oliver Twist  Charles Dickens  3.84
 March  The Road  Cormack McCarthy  4.00
 April  The Life of Michael K  J.M. Coetzee  3.71
 May  Spectator Bird   Wallace Stegner  4.30
 June  The Rievers  William Faulkner  4.33
 July  The Plot Against America  Philip Roth  3.84
 August  Freakonomics  S. Levitt & S. Dubner  3.10
 September  A Thousand Splendid Suns  Khaled Hosseini  4.47
 October  Sutree  Cormack McCarthy  NR
 November  The Looming Tower  Lawrence Wright  4.23
 December  Accordion Crimes  Annie Prioux  3.13
       
 2008      
 January  The Big Sleep  Raymond Chandler  3.89
 February  American Pastoral  Philip Roth  NR
 March  1491  Charles C. Mann  3.97
 April  100 Years of Solitude  Gabriel Garcia Marquez  NR
 May  Dancing To Almendra    Mayra Montero  3.66
 June  Tender Is the Night        F. Scott Fitzgerald  3.98
 July  Mudbound  Hillary Jordan  4.40
 August (2)  Billy Budd  Herman Melville            4.19
   The Incident At Owl Creek (SS)  Ambrose Bierce  4.13
 September  One Minute to Midnight  Michael Dobbs  4.54
 October  Steppenwolf  Herman Hesse   3.73
 November  The Water Method Man  John Irving  4.05
 December  Let’s Don’t Go To the Dogs Tonight      Alexandra Fuller  3.87
       
 2009      
 January  Frankenstein  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley  4.36
 February  Indignation  Philip Roth  4.31
 March  White Noise      Don DeLillo  3.04
 April  American Lion  John Meacham  3.87
 May  A Mercy  Toni Morrison  4.49
 June  Life/Times of the Thunderbolt Kid  Bill Bryson  3.88
 July  Oil  Upton Sinclair    4.01
 August  The Sparrow  Mary Doria Russell  4.37
 September  History of Love  Nicole Krauss   3.58
 October  Sophie’s Choice  William Styron  4.64
 November  Short History of Tractors/Ukraine  Marina Lewycka  2.93
 December  No Selection/ Holiday Meeting  N/A  N/A
       
 2010      
 January  Team of Rivals  Doris Kearns Goodwin  4.68
 February  Red and Me  Bill Russell  2.00
 March  Portrait of the Artist/Young Man  James Joyce  3.75
 April  Gates of Fire     Steven Pressfield  4.36
 May  Nostromo  Joseph Conrad  NR
 June  Lancelot  Walker Percy    4.14
 July  The Big Short  Michael Lewis  4.30
 August  His Excellency: George Washington  Joseph Ellis  3.58
 September  The Secrets of the Hopewell Box  Jim Squires  4.25
 October  City of Thieves David Benoiff   4.36
 November  Of Mice and Men  John Steinbeck  4.38
   The Old Man and the Sea  Earnest Hemingway  4.59
 December     No Selection/ Holiday Meeting N/A N/A
       
 2011      
 January      Trinity  Leon Uris  
 February     Wise Blood  Flannery O'Connor  
 March      The Wake of Forgiveness  Bruce Machart  3.63
 April  Toussaint Louverture  Madison Smartt Bell  3.75
 May  month off  --
 June  Cleopatra    Stacy Schiff   3.79
 July   The Heart is a Lonely Hunter  Carson McCullers  4.86
 August  The Bill Rock Candy Mountain  Wallace Stegner  4.93
 September  Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar  
 October  Mr. Peanut   Adam Ross  
 November  Dracula  Bram Stoker  
 December  No Selection  ---  
       
 2012      
 January  War and Peace  Leo Tolstoy      
 February  Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury  
 March  East of Eden  John Steinbeck  
 April  As I lay Dying  William Faulkner  
 May  The Secret Agent  Joseph Conrad  
 June  Nine Horses  Billy Collins  
        

 

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