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Readings of the Women's Book Group

Readings for the 2007/2008 year

  • October 21 - Dracula by Bram Stoker; 
  • Nov  18 - My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk and Erdag Goknar; and
  • Dec 16 - Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje.
  • January 20: The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Feb 17 - Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
    (We will also discuss Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje which we missed because of snow cancellation )
  • Mar 16 - A Year in the South 1865 by Stephen V. Ash
  • April 20 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • May 20 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

Readings for the 2006/2007 year

  • Sept 17 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • October 15: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • November 19: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Dec 17: Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
  • January 21, 2007: Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder.
  • Feb 18 The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
  • March 18: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
  • May 20 : Therese Raquin by Emile Zola (no April meeting)
  • June 17-  Everyman by Philip Roth

Readings for the 2005/2006 year

  • Sept 18 - Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • Oct 16 - Light in August by William Faulkner
  • November 20 - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and
    Madness at the Fair that Changed America
    , by Erik Larson
  • December 18, Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
  • Jan 15 -5th Business by Robertson Davies
  • Feb 19 - Harbor by Lorraine Adams
  • March 19 - Howards End by E. M. Forster
  • April 16 - From a Sealed Room by Rachel Kadish
  • May 21 - Runaway by Alice Munro
  • June 18 - Last Orders by Graham Swift

Readings for the 2004/2005 year

  • Sept.19- Don Quixote by Cervantes
  • Oct 17 - Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy -- by Carlos M. N. Eire
  • Nov 21 - The Kite Runner -- by Khaled Hosseini
  • Dec 19 - Madame Bovary-- by Gustave Flaubert
  • January 16 - Dreams from My Father:A Story of Race and Inheritance,, by Barak Obama.
  • Feb 20 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Mar 20 - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  • Apr 17 - Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine -- by Raja Shehadeh
  • May 15 - Amateur Marriage by Ann Tyler
  • June 19 - The Known World by Edward Jones

Readings for the 2003/2004 year

  • Sept 21 -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Oct 19 -- The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
  • Nov 16 -- The Three Junes by Julia Glass
  • Dec 21 -- Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
  • Jan 18 - Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
    by Nuala O'Faolain
  • Feb 15 -- Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
  • March 21 -- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
  • April 18 -- Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
  • May 16 -- Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books -- by Azar Nafisi
  • June 20 -- An Equal Music : A Novel -- by Vikram Seth

Readings from 2002/2003

  • Huck Finn by Mark Twain
  • Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • The Pick Up by Nadine Gordiner
  • Water Witches by Chris A. Bohjalian
  • Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  • Oxherdering Tale , By Charles Johnson
  • An American Legend , by Laura Hillenbrand
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , by Carson McCullers

Readings from 2001/2002

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • The Moon Is Always Female by Marge Piercy
  • The Bee Season by -Myla Goldberg
  • D i s g r a c e by J.M. Coetzee
  • All Souls : A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
  • Mrs Dalloway - by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
  • Plainsong by Kent Haruf
  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

 


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