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Jonathan Trumbull Library Book Group
Retrospective Book Discussion List 1998-2007

 

AUTHOR

TITLE

GENRE

 

(1998-1999:)

Sept. 1998

Wells, Rebecca

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Fiction

Oct. 1998

Godwin, Gail

Father Melancholy’s Daughter

Fiction

Nov. 1998

McCourt, Frank

Angela’s Ashes

Memoir

Dec. 1998

Dallas, Sandra

The Persian Pickle Club

Fiction

Jan. 1999

Bohjalian, Chris

Midwives

Fiction

Feb. 1999

McBride, James

The Color of Water

Memoir

March 1999

Golden, Arthur

Memoirs of a Geisha

Fiction

April 1999

O’Brien, Tim

In the Lake of the Woods

Fiction/Mystery

May 1999

Harr, Jonathan

A Civil Action

Nonfiction

June 1999

Karon, Jan

At Home in Mitford

Fiction

 

(1999-2000:)

Sept. 1999

Kingsolver, Barbara

Animal Dreams

Fiction

Oct. 1999

Hayes, Melissa

Diaries and Journals presentation

Nonfiction

Nov. 1999

Shreve, Anita

The Weight of Water

Fiction

Dec. 1999

Albom, Mitch

Tuesdays with Morrie

Nonfiction

Jan. 2000

Hamill, Pete

Snow in August

Fiction

Feb. 2000

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice

Fiction

March 2000

Bragg, Rick

All Over But the Shoutin’

Memoir

April 2000

Godwin, Gail

Evensong (sequel to Father Melancholy)

Fiction

May 2000

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

The Yellow Wallpaper & Making a Change (short stories)

Fiction

June 2000

Ogilvie, Elisabeth

Waters on a Starry Night

Fiction

 

(2000-2001:) 

Sept. 2000

Tan, Amy

The Kitchen God’s Wife

Fiction

Oct. 2000

Berg, Elizabeth

Durable Goods

Fiction

Nov. 2000

Walker, Mildred

Winter Wheat

Fiction

Dec. 2000

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Gift from the Sea

Nonfiction

Jan. 2001

Fitzgerald, Penelope

The Bookshop

Fiction

Feb. 2001

DuMaurier, Daphne

Rebecca

Fiction

March 2001

Mayle, Peter

A Year in Provence

Nonfiction

April 2001

Gilmore, Mikal

A Shot in the Heart

Nonfiction/Crime

May 2001

Flagg, Fannie

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fiction

June 2001

Vreeland, Susan and Chevalier, Tracy

Girl in Hyacinth Blue/Girl with a Pearl Earring

FictionFiction

 

(2001-2002:)

Sept. 2001

Landvik, Lorna

Patty Jane’s House of Curl

Fiction

Oct. 2001

Diamant, Anita

The Red Tent

Fiction

Nov. 2001

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

Fiction

Dec. 2001

Welty, Eudora

Selection of short stories

Fiction

Jan. 2002

Cronin, A.J.

The Green Years

Fiction

Feb. 2002

Hurston, Zora Neale

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fiction

March 2002

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Wait Till Next Year

Memoir

April 2002

Irving, John

Cider House Rules

Fiction

May 2002

Codell, Esme Raji

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year

Memoir

June 2002

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

Fiction

 

(2002-2003:)

Sept. 2002

Krakauer, Jon/ Mendelsohn, Jane

Into the Wild /I Was Amelia Earhart

Nonfiction/Fiction

Oct. 2002

Fergus, Jim

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Fiction

Nov. 2002

Steinbeck, John

Cannery Row/Travels with Charley

Fiction/Memoir

Dec. 2002

Hijuelos, Oscar

Mr. Ives’ Christmas

Fiction

Jan. 2003

Alexie, Sherman

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Fiction

Feb. 2003

Grisham, John

A Painted House

Fiction

March 2003

Hammett, Dashiell

The Maltese Falcon (FILM)

Fiction

April 2003

Livesey, Margot

GUEST AUTHOR EVENT (Eva Moves the Furniture)

Fiction

May 2003

Hillenbrand, Laura

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Nonfiction

June 2003

Makine, Andrei

Dreams of My Russian Summers

Fiction

 

(2003-2004:)

Sept. 2003

Bradbury, Ray

Fahrenheit 451

Fiction

Oct. 2003

Smith, Betty

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Fiction

Nov. 2003

Brooks, Geraldine

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Nonfiction

Dec. 2003

Harris, Joanne

Chocolat (FILM)

Fiction

Jan. 2004

Lamott, Anne

Bird by Bird

Nonfiction

Feb. 2004

Brooks, Geraldine

Year of Wonders

Fiction

March 2004

Kidd, Sue Monk

The Secret Life of Bees

Fiction

April 2004

Frankl, Viktor

Man’s Search for Meaning

Nonfiction

May 2004

Law, Janice

GUEST AUTHOR EVENT (Voices, The Night Bus, The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed)

Fiction, several titles

June 2004

Dobie, Kathy

The Only Girl in the Car

Nonfiction

 

(2004-2005:)

Sept. 2004

Hosseini, Khaled

Kite Runner (One Book/One Region)

Fiction

Oct. 2004

Cather, Willa

My Antonia

Fiction

Nov. 2004

Haddon, Mark

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Fiction

Dec. 2004

Russell, Bill

Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the 20th Century’s Greatest Winner

Nonfiction

Jan. 2005

Lethem, Jonathan

Motherless Brooklyn

Fiction

Feb. 2005

Gaines, Ernest

A Lesson Before Dying

Fiction

March 2005

De Bernieres, Louis

Corelli’s Mandolin

Fiction

April 2005

Patchett, Ann

Bel Canto

Fiction

May 2005

Mueller, Marnie

GUEST AUTHOR EVENT (My Mother’s Island)

Fiction

June 2005

Kimmel, Haven

A Girl Named Zippy

Memoir

 

(2005-2006:)

Sept. 2005

Kidder, Tracy

Mountains Beyond Mountains (One Book/One Region)

Nonfiction

Oct. 2005

Ondaatje, Michael

Anil’s Ghost

Fiction

Nov. 2005

Picoult, Jodi

My Sister’s Keeper

Fiction

Dec. 2005

Kotzwinkle, William

Fata Morgana

Fiction

Jan. 2006

Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence

Fiction

Feb. 2006

Jones, Edward P.

The Known World

Fiction

March 2006

Atwood, Margaret

Alias Grace

Fiction

April 2006

Kallos, Stephanie

Broken for You

Fiction

May 2006

Quindlen, Anna

One True Thing

Fiction

June 2006

Van de Wetering, Janwillem

Corpse on the Dike

Fiction

 

(2006-2007:)

Sept. 2006

Murphy, Louise

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

Fiction

Oct. 2006

Abu-Jaber, Diana

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

Memoir

Nov. 2006

Salinger, J. D.

The Catcher in the Rye

Fiction

Dec. 2006

Kimmel, Haven

She Got Up Off the Couch

Memoir

Jan. 2007

Doctorow, E. L.

The Waterworks

Fiction

Feb. 2007

Allende, Isabel

The House of the Spirits

Fiction

March 2007

Hockenberry, John

Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence

Memoir

April 2007

Furst, Alan

Blood of Victory

Fiction

May 2007

Larson, Erik

The Devil in the White City

Nonfiction

June 2007

MacLeod, Alistair

No Great Mischief

Fiction

 

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