Readings of the Women's Book Group

Readings for the 2008/2009 year

• September 20 -The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
• October 19 - Three Cups of Tea:  One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.  
• November 16 - Run by Ann Patchett
• Dec 21 - Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
• Jan 18 -  Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
• Feb 15 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Mar 15 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• April 19 - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyon Li
• May 17 - Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wil

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