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Past Book Club Selections:

Thursday, November 12, 2009, The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Thursday, October 8, 2009, Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
Thursday, September 10, 2009, People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Thursday, August 13, 2009. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Thursday, July 9, 2009, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Thursday, June 11, 2009, The Forbidden Daughter by Shobhan Bantwal
Thursday, May 14, 2009, The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Thursday, March 12, 2009, In Search of God at Harvard by Ari L. Goldman
Thursday, February 12, 2009, Boomsday by Christopher Buckley (author of Thank You for Smoking) 100th Book!
Thursday, January 8, 2009, My Indian in Me: Self Help Autobiography by Avis Garrett Baptist
Thursday, November 13, 2008, The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
Thursday, October 9, 2008, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Thursday, September 11, 2008, The Lace Reader: a Novel by Brunonia Barry
Thursday, August 14, 2008, The Shack, by William P. Young
Thursday, July 10, 2008, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Thursday, June 12, 2008, Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon  (our 93rd book!)
Thursday, May 8, 2008, Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Husseini,
Thursday, April 10, 2008, Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Thursday, March 13, 2008, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Thursday, February 21, 2008, Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
Thursday, January 10, 2008, Snow by Orphan Pamuk
Thursday, November 8, 2007 The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
Thursday, October 11, 2007 Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Thursday, September 13, 2007 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Thursday, August 9, 2007Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Thursday, July 12, 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Thursday, June 14, 2007 The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Thursday, April 12, 2007 A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanuken (includes letters of C.S. Lewis)
Thursday, March 8, 2007 (our 80th book!) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Thursday, February 8, 2007 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Thursday, January 11, 2007 Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
Thursday, November 9, 2006 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Thursday, October 12, 2006 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Thursday, September 14, 2006 The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman, Oliver Wyman (Our 75th book!)
Thursday, August 10, 2006 The King of Kings County : A Novel by Whitney Terrell
Thursday, July 13, 2006 Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
Thursday, June 8, 2006 Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan
Thursday, May 18, 2006 Shifting Sands: Life in Arabia with a Saudi Princess by T. L. McCown.
Thursday, April 20, 2006 (our 70th book!) Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares,
Thursday, March 9, 2006 The Rule of Four, by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Thursday, February 9, 2006 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride,
Thursday, January 12, 2006 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini,
Thursday, November 10, 2005 The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Thursday, October 13, 2005 The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (continued from the September meeting)
Thursday, September 8, 2005 The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Thursday, August 11, 2005 Telling Tales edited by Nadine Gordimer
Thursday, July 14, 2005 Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Thursday, June 9, 2005 Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Thursday, May 12, 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Thursday, April 14, 2005 (our 60th book discussion) Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Thursday, March, 17, 2005 State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Thursday, February, 10, 2005 What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
Thursday, January 13, 2005 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Thursday, November 11, 2004 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Thursday, October 14, 2004 The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Thursday, September 9, 2004 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Thursday, August 12, 2004 Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
Thursday, July 22, 2004 The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town by Jacqueline Guidry, (4th Bi-annual meeting with the African-American Gabfest)
Thursday, June 10, 2004 Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
Thursday, May 13, 2004 (our 50th book discussion!) Bleachers by John Grisham
Thursday, April 8, 2004 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Thursday, March 11, 2004, God's Debris by Scott Adams,
Thursday, February 12, 2004, The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, (Related source materials and commentary--Acrobat Reader required)
Thursday, January 29, 2003, Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes (3rd Annual Joint meeting with African-American Gabfest)
Thursday, November 13, 2003, Seabiscuit by Lauren Hillenbrand,
Thursday, October 9, 2003, Up Country by Nelson DeMille
Thursday, September 11, 2003 The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Thursday, August 14, 2003, Crow Lake by Mary Lawson,
Thursday, July 10, 2003, Their Eyes Were Watching God (2nd Annual Joint meeting with African-American Gabfest)
Thursday, June 12, 2003, Peace Like a River by Leif Enger and Blessings by Anna Quinlen
Thursday, May 8, 2003, Cancelled due to Tornado Watch
Thursday, April 10, 2003, The Great Good Thing and Into the Labyrinth by Roderick Townley
Thursday, March 13, 2003, Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Thursday, February 13, 2003, The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Thursday, January 9, 2003, A Smile as Big as the Moon: A Teacher, His Class, and Their Unforgettable Journey by Michael E. Kersjes
Thursday, November 14, 2002, Solomon Spring by Michelle Black
Thursday, October 10, 2002, The Atonement by Ian McEwan,
Thursday, September 19, 2002, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (continued)
Thursday, August 8, 2002, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Wednesday, July 17, 2002, The Wake of the Wind by J California Cooper (Special joint meeting with African-American Gabfest)
June 2002, No meeting
Thursday, May 9, 2002, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Thursday, April 11, 2002 Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Thursday, March 21, 2002 A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
Thursday, February 14, 2002 A Painted House by John Grisham
Thursday, January 10, 2002 The Huntsman by Whitney Terrell
Thursday, December 13, 2001 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
Thursday, November 15, 2001 The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Thursday, October 11, 2001 Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Thursday, September 13, 2001 Midwives by Chris A. Bohjalian
Thursday, August 9, 2001 The Secret Lives of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Thursday, July 12, 2001 Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Thursday, June 14, 2001 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Thursday, May 10, 2001 At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Thursday, April 12, 2001 Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Thursday, March 8, 2001 Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Thursday, February 8, 2001 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Thursday, January 11, 2001 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
December 2000 No meeting
Thursday, November 9, 2000 Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Thursday, October 12, 2000 Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austin
Thursday, September 14, 2000 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Thursday, August 10, 2000 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
July 2000 No meeting
Thursday, June 8, 2000 The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Thursday, May 11, 2000 Anatomy of the Spirit by Carolyn Myss
Thursday, April 13, 2000 The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Thursday, March 9, 2000 Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt
Thursday, February 2000 Running from Safety by Richard Bach
Thursday, January 13, 2000 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Thursday, December 9, 1999 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Thursday October 14, 1999 Open discussion