The Book List
This is a list of the books our group has read since 1990.
Book List in Alphabetical Order by Author
Last name, First name, Book title
Ali, Monica, Brick Lane
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Purple Hibiscus
Allen, Sarah Addison, Garden Spells
Allende, Isabelle, Eva Luna
Alvarez, Julia, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anderson, Laurie Halse , Fever 1793
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Anshaw, Carol, Aquamarine
Asher, Bridget, The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted
Atkinson, Kate, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale
Austen, Jane, Emma
Bank, Melissa, Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Barr, Emily, Baggage
Barbery, Muriel, Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barrett, Andrea, Ship Fever
Barron, Stephanie, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery (Being A Jane Austen Mystery)
Barrows, Annie & Mary Ann Shaffer, The Gurnesy Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Beattie, Anne, Another You
Beauman, Sally, The Sisters Mortland
Bell, Christine, The Perez Family
Bender, Aimee, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Benjamin, Melanie, Alice I Have Been
Benjamin, Melanie, The Aviator’s Wife (2/15)
Berg, Elizabeth, Range of Motion
Berne, Suzanne, A Crime in the Neighborhood
Berriault, Gina, Women in Their Beds
Binchy, Maeve, Light A Penny Candle
Bird, Sarah, Yokota Officer’s Club
Bloom, Amy, Come to Me
Blum, Jenna, Those Who Save Us
Bonner, Cindy, Lily: A Love Story
Brooks, Geraldine, Year of Wonders
Brown, Rita Mae, Six of One
Brown, Rosellen, Before and After
Browning, Dominique, Paths of Desire
Bowen, Elizabeth, Death of the Heart
Broyard, Bliss, My Father, Dancing
Bryan, Helen, The Sisterhood
Buck, Pearl S., Pavilion of Women
Byatt, A.S., Possession
Campbell, Helen, Turnip Blues
Cannon, Joanna, The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber
Cather, Willa, Oh Pioneers!
Chevalier, Tracy, Girl With the Pearl Earring
Christensen, Kate, Epicure’s Lament
Chute, Carolyn, The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Cisneros, Sandra, The House On Mango St.
Clarke, Breena, River Cross My Heart
Cleage, Pearl, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Colwin, Laurie, Happy All the Time
Conklin, Tara, The House Girl
Conway, Deborah Kerr, The Road From Coorain
Crandall, Susan, Whistling Past the Graveyard
Cross, Donna Woolfolk, Pope Joan
Crowther, Yasmin, Saffron Kitchen
Dallas, Sandra, Prayers for Sale
Dawesar, Abha, Babyji
Dean, Debra, The Madonnas of Leningrad
de Chellis Hill, Carol, Henry James’ Midnight Song
De Rosnay, Tatiana, Sarah’s Key
DeMarco, Kathleen, Cranberry Queen
Desai, Kiran, The Inheritance of Loss
Diamant, Anita, The Red Tent
Dillard, Annie, The Living
Drabble, Margaret, The Seven Sisters
Domingue, Ronlyn, The Mercy of Thin Air
Donoghue, Emma, Slammerkin
Dunne, Katherine, Geek Love
DuMaurier, Daphne, Rebecca
Dunant, Sarah, Birth of Venus
Durrow, Heidi, the Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Edwards, Kim, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Eagen, Jennifer, The Invisible Circus
Eliot, George, Middlemarch
Eliot, George, Middlemarch
Elkman, Kiersten, Blackwater
Erdrich, Louise, Tracks
Evanovich, Janet, Wicked Appetite
Fay, Juliette, The Tumbling Turner Sisters
Feldman, Ellen, Lucy
Fergus, Jim, One Thousand White Women
Ferrante, Elena, My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Series, Book One)
Fforde, Jasper, The Eyre Affair
Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones’ Diary
Filipachi, Amanda, Nude Men
Fitzgerald, Zelda, Save Me the Waltz
Fitzgerald, Penelope, The Bookshop, The
Franklin, Ariana, Mistress of the Art of Death
Freed, Lynn, The Curse of the Appropriate Man
Fowler, Karen Joy, The Jane Austen Book Club
Gaitskill, Mary, Two Girls, Fat &’Thin
Gallmann, Kuki, I Dreamed of Africa
Gibbons, Kaye, Ellen Foster
Gilchrist, Ellen, The Annunciation
Glass, Julia, Three Junes
Godwin, Rebecca, Keeper of the House
Godwin, Gail, The Finishing School
Goldberg, Myla, Bee Season
Golden, Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha
Gordimer, Nadine, None To Accompany Me
Goodman, Carol, Lake of the Dead Languages
Grafton, Sue, A Is For Alibi
Graham, Lauren, Someday, Someday, Maybe
Grau, Shirley, The Keepers of the House
Greggory, Phillipa, The Other Bolyen Girl
Grodstein, Lauren, A Friend of the Family
Groff, Lauren, Arcadia
Gruen, Sara, Water for Elephants
Gyasi, Yaa, Homegoing
Haigh, Jennifer, Mrs. Kimble
Hall, Sarah, Electric Michelangelo
Haines, Carolyn, Summer of the Redeemers
Hanff, Helene, 84 Charing Cross Road
Hamilton, Jane, A Map of the World
Hannah, Kristin, The Nightingale
Harris, Joanne, Chocolat
Hashimi, Nadia, the Pearl that Broke Its Shell
Hawkins, Paula, Girl on the Train
Hay, Elizabeth, A Student of Weather
Hegi, Ursula, Floating in My Mother’s Palm
Heller, Zoe, What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
Henriquez, Cristina, The Book of Unknown Americans (Whitney, 7/15)
Henry, Sara J., Learning to Swim
Highsmith, Patricia, The Talented Mr. Ripley (12/14)
Hoffman, Alice, Seventh Heaven
Holman, Sheri, The Dress Lodger
Homes, A.M., In A Country of Mothers
Hougan, Carolyn, The Romeo Flag
Hornby, Simonetta Agnello
Humphries, Josephine, Nowhere Else on Earth
Hulme, Keri, The Bone People
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hyde, Catherine Ryan, Walk Me Home
Hyland, MJ, How the Light Gets In
Hood, Ann, The Book That Matters Most
Ibrahim, Liaila, Yellow Crocus
Ivey, Eowyn, The Snow Child
Janawitz, Tama, The Male Crossdresser Support Group
Jiles, Paulette, News of the World
Jones, Tayari, An American Marraige
Jong, Erica, Fear of Flying
Kalpakian, Laura, Educating Waverly
Karr, Mary, The Liar’s Club: A Memoir
Keller, Nora Okja, Comfort Woman
Kelly, Martha Hall, Lilac Girls
Kent, Kathleen, The Heretic’s Daughter
Kidd, Sue Monk, The Secret Life of Bees
King, Laurie, Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal Dreams
Kline, Christina Baker, Orphan Train
Kogawa, Joy, Obasan
Kohler, Sheila, Becoming Jane Eyre
Kring, Sandra, Carry Me Home (KB, 8/15)
Kwitney, Alisa, Till The Fat Lady Sings
Lackberg, Camilla, The Ice Princess
Lahiri, Jhumpa, Interpreter of Maladies
Lamott, Anne, Crooked Little Heart
Landvik, Lorna, Patty Jane’s House of Curl
Lansens, Lori, The Girls
Leavitt, Caroline, Girls In Trouble
Lee, Sky, Disappearing Moon Cafe
Le Guin, Ursula, The Left Hand of Darkness
Lessing, Doris, The Real Thing
Leslie, Diane, Fluer de Leigh’s Life of Crime
Levy, Andrea, Small Island
Lipman, Eleanor, The Way Men Act
Lippi, Rosina, The Homestead
Lippman, Laura, Sunburn
Livesey, Margot, The Missing World
Lloyd, Josie, Come Together
Malcom, M.L., Heart of Lies
Mahoney, Rosemary, Whoredom in Kimmage
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Finding Casey
Mason, Bobbie Ann, Love Life
McCorkle, Jill, July 7th
McCracken, Elizabeth, The Giant’s House
McDermott, Alice, Charming Billy
McDonnell, Andrienne, The Doctor and the Diva
McMahon, Jennifer, Island of Lost Girls
Mehta, Gita, A River Sutra
Meloy, Maile, Do Not Become Alarmed
Metalious, Grace, Peyton Place
Messud, Claire, The Emperor’s Children
Miller, Sue, The Lake Shore Limited
Minot, Eliza, Tiny One
Minot, Susan, Evening
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone with the Wind (Tina 05/15)
Mirvis, Tova, Ladies Auxiliary
Miura, Shion, The Great Passage
Mones, Nicole, The Last Chinese Chef
Moore, Lorrie, Birds of America
Morgenstern, Erin, The Night Circus
Moran, Michelle, Cleopatra’s Daughter
Moriarty, Laura, The Center of Everything
Moriarty, Liane, The Hypnotist’s Love Story
Morris, Mary McGarry, Songs in Ordinary Time
Morrison, Toni, Beloved
Nahai, Gina B., Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Naslund, Sena Jeter, Ahab’s Wife
Neely, Barbara, Blanche On The Lam
Neville, Katherine, Eight, The
Newman, Barbara, The Covenant
Ng, Celeste, Everything I Never Told You
Niffenegger, Audrey, The Time Traveler’s Wife
Notaro, Lauri, There’s a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell
Nunez, Sigrid, The Last of Her Kind
O’Brien, Edna, The Country Girls
Oates, Joyce Carol, FOXFIRE
O’faolain, Nuala, My Dream of You
Ostlund, Lori, After the Parade
Ozeki, Ruth, All Over Creation
Packer, Ann, Mendocino
Patchett, Ann, Bel Canto
Pasulka, Brigid, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
Peery, Janet, A River Beyond the World
Pelletier, Cathie, Once Upon A’Time On On The Banks
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen, Wench
Phillips, Jayne Anne, Lark and Termite
Pickard, Nancy, The Scent of Rain and Lightning
Picoult, Jodi, Plain Truth
Piercy, Marge, Gone to Soldiers
Pietrzyk, Leslie, A Year and a Day
Pilcher, Rosamunde, The Shell Seekers
Powell, Dawn, The Locusts Have No King
Proulx, Annie, The Shipping News
Pym Barbara, An Unsuitable Attachment
Quindlan, Anna, One True Thing
Reichl, Ruth, Garlic and Sapphires
Reisert, Rebecca, The Third Witch
Restrepo, Laura, The Dark Bride
Ryan, Terry, Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
Reynolds, Shari, The Rapture of Canaan
Rhodes, Jewell Parker, Voodoo Dreams
Rhys, EileenJean, Wide Sargasso Sea
Rice, Eva, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Rindell, Suzanne, The Other Typist
Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead
Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things
Russell, Karen, Swamplandia!
Sanders, Dori, Clover
Santiago, Esmerelda, Conquistadora
Sarton, Mae, The Mermaids Singing
Schine, Cathleen, Rameau’s Niece
Scofield, Sandra, Beyond Deserving
Scott, Joanna, The Manikin
See, Lisa, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Selleck, Cassie Dandridge, The Pecan Man (3/15)
Semple, Maria, Where’d You Go Bernadette
Shaffer, Mary Ann & Annie Barrows, The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shearer, Cynthia, The Wonder Book of the Air
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Sherwood, Frances, Vindication
Shields, Carol, Happenstance
Shreve, Anita, Weight of Water
Shortridge, Jennie, Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe
Siddons, Anne Rivers, Peachtree’Road
Silver, Elizabeth, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton
Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Simpson, Mona, Anywhere But Here
Sittenfield, Curtis, Prep
Sinclair, April, Coffee Will Make You Black
Smiley, Jane, Moo
Smith, Alexander McCall, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Smith, Ali, Hotel World
Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Smith, Lee, Fair &’Tender Ladies
Smith, Zadie, White Teeth
Soloman, Flora J., The Pledge of Silence
Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
St. John Mandel, Emily, Station Eleven
Straight, Susan, I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen…
Stratton Porter, Gene, A Daughter of the Land
Stedman, M.L., The Light Between Oceans
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge
Sullivan, Faith, The Cape Ann
Susann, Jacquiline, Valley of the Dolls
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club
Tannen, Deborah, You Just Don’t Understand
Tartt, Donna, The Secret History
Tampanelli, Gioina, Sometimes the Soul
Thatcher, Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale’The Life of Martha Ballard
Thatcher, Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale’The Life of Martha Ballard
Trigiani, Adriana, Big Stone Gap
Troy, Judy, West of Venus
Tsukiyama, Gail, Women of the Silk
Turner, Nancy E., These is My Words
Tyler, Anne, Back When We Were Grownups
Umrigar, Thrity, The Space Between Us
Vreeland, Susan, Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Ward, Jesmyn, Salvage the Bones
Wardell, Heather, Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo
Waters, Sarah, Fingersmith
Wells, Rebecca, Little Altars Everywhere
Welty, Eudora, The Optimist’s Daughter
Wharton, Edith, The Buccaneers
Winawer, Melodie, The Scribe of Siena
Winterspoon, Jeanette, Sexing the Cherry
Wiseman, Ellen Marie, What She Left Behind
Wolitzer, Meg, The Interestings
Wood, Barbara, The Dreaming
Yoshimoto, Banana, The Kitchen
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