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2004-2008 Book List GROUP 2
Book Discussion Group(s)

booksMonthly meetings are held throughout the year in members homes. There are two groups ranging in size from 11-16 members each. Each group is currently filled but there will be a signup sheet at the meetings and when 6 members have expressed interest, we will facilitate a new group starting.  For information call Kathie Wells-508-428-4690 or Deb Krau- 508-778-1756. The books for Group 2 are found by clicking on the left book list, Group 3, which has just been formed will select it's books and they will be posted here.


 

 

GROUP 1 

 

BARNSTABLE NEWCOMERS BOOK DISCUSSIONS

 

Barnstable Newcomers Book Club No. One

 

 

 

Meets 1st Tuesday of the Month at 9:30 a.m.

 

 

 

2010 Book List

Member Rating 1-5 star

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews based on:  

 

Date

Book

a) Did you enjoy the book?

 

 

 

b) Did you learn anything from the story?

 

 

 

 

2-Feb-10

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

3*

 

 

by Harriet Jacobs

 

 

2-Mar

March

3.5*

 

 

by Geraldine Brooks

 

 

6-Apr

Still Alice

3.5*

 

 

by Lisa Genova

 

 

4-May

Widow's War

4*

 

 

by Sally Gunning

 

 

1-Jun

The Madonnas of Leningrad

4*

 

 

by Debra Dean

 

 

6-Jul

East of the Sun

3.5*

 

 

by Julia Gretson

 

 

3-Aug

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

4*

 

 

by Muriel Barbery

 

 

7-Sep

Sarah's Key

 

 

 

by Tatiana DeRosnay

 

 

5-Oct

The Help

 

 

 

by Kathryn Stockett

 

 

2-Nov

The Guernsey Literary and Potator Peel Pie Society

 

 

 

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

 

 

7-Dec

Bound

 

 

 

Sara Gunning

 

 

 

 

PREVIOUSLY READ BOOK LIST

 

Ahab’s Wife, or The Star Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund

Ali and Nino:  A Love Story by Kurban Said

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lindie Newton by Jane Smiley

An Act of Love by Nancy Thayer

Amnesia by G.H.Ephron

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

Angle of Repose by Wallace Earle Stegner

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish

Ashworth Hall by Anne Perry

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Back When We Were Grownups bu Ann Tyler

Bell Canto by Ann Patchett

The Big House by George Howe Colt

Call the Darkness Light by Nancy Zaroulis

Caravans by James Michner

A Civil Action by Jonathan Hart

China Boy by Gus Lee

The Color of Water: A Tribute to a Man’s White Mother by James McBride

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

A Daughter of Fortune by Margaret Allende

The Day the Voices Stopped by K. Steele

Desert Flower by Waris Dirie

The Devil in the White City Erik Larson

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

The Divine Secrets of the Yah Yah Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Empire Falls by Richard russo

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Flags of our Father by James Bradley and Ron Powers

Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

A Good House by Bonnie Burnard

The Good Husband by Gail Godwin

Guilt by Association by Susan Sloan

Highwire Moon by Susan Straight

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Jim the Boy by Tony earley

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis

Land Girls by Angela Huth

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Light on Snow by Anita Shreve

Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller

Lucy by Ellen Feldman

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

Marley & Me by John Grogan

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Mid Wives by Chris Bohjalian

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

Mountains Beyond Mountains bu Tracy Kidder

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Native Son by Richard Wright

New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Old Friends by Tracy Kidder

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons

One True Thing by Anna Quindlan

The Pact:  A Love Story by Jodi Picoult

The Piano Tuner: A Novel by Daniel Mason

Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks

Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

Rabbit is Rich by John Updike

Rabbit Redux by John Updike

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi

The Reader by Bernard Schlink

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

The Road from Corain by Jill Kerr Conway

Salem Falls by Jodi Piccoult

The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney

Sea Glass by Anita Shreve

The Secret by Cynthia Victor

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

See Jane Run by Joy Fielding

Simon’s Family by Marianne Fredriksson

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee/Divakaruni

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

The Three Junes by Julia Glass

Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Turbulent Souls by Stephen Dubner

The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

The Wedding by Dorothy West

The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

The Wild Girl by Jim Fergus

Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire

Where the River Runs by Patti Callahan Henry

A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson

 

 

 


 

 

 





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