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MPBC - Lawrence KS
Reading List: 1993-2009
(Boldfaced books were voted as annual favorites)

2009 Books:
September: Baby Jesus Pawnshop - Lucia Orth
August: Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
July: Celloist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
June: Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
May: Hannah Coulter - Wendell Barry
April: Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
March: Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
February: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
January: The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney

Previous Years' Selections:

• A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Annie John-Jamaica Kincaid
• World's End-T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Angle of Repose-Wallace Stegner
• Remains of the Day-Kazuo Ishiguro
• Animal Dreams-Barbara Kingsolver
• Morgan's Passing-Anne Tyler
• Truman-David McCullough
• Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
• Tobacco Road-Erskine Caldwell
• Refuge-Terry Tempest Williams
• The Shipping News- E. Annie Prouix
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil-John Berendt
• The Stone Diaries-Carol Shields
• The Agony and the Ecstacy-Irving Stone
• A Frolic of His Own-William Gaddis
• Little Altars Everywhere-Rebecca Wells
• The Moonstone-Wilkie Collins
• The House on Mango Street-Sandra Cisneros
• The English Patient-Michael Ondaatje
• As I Lay Dying-William Faulkner
• In the Time of the Butterflies-Julia Alvarez
• The Cape Ann-Faith Sullivan
• The Professor's House-Willa Cather
• Talk Before Sleep-Elizabeth Berg
• The Confessions of Nat Turner-William Styron
• The Liar's Club-Mary Karr
• Dear and Glorious Physician-Taylor Caldwell
• Tender is the Night-F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Saving Grace-Lee Smith
• The Color of Water-James McBride
• Atticus-Ron Hanson
• Martin Dressler-Steven Millhauser
• House of the Seven Gables-Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Civil Action-Jonathan Harr
• A Lesson Before Dying-Ernest Gaines
• Middlemarch-George Eliot
• Angela's Ashes-Frank McCourt
• The Dubliner's-James Joyce
• Lady Chatterly's Lover-D.H. Lawrence
• A Soldier of the Great War-Mark Helprin
• The Good Earth-Pearl S. Buck
• Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer
• A Widow for One Year-John Irving
• The Picture of Dorian Grey-Oscar Wilde
• American Pastoral-Philip Roth
• Undaunted Courage-Stephen Ambrose
• Remembering Laughter-Wallace Stegner
• The Samarai's Garden-Gail Tsukiyama
• Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden
• Clear Light of Day-Anita Desai
• Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
• The Poisonwood Bible-Barbara Kingsolver
• Bang the Drum Slowly-Mark Harris
• The Power of One-Bryce Courtenay
• A Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway
• The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway
• Nothing But the Truth-Avi
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Apprentice-J.K. Rowling
• Charming Billy-Alice McDermott
• Bleak House-Charles Dickens
• My Year of Meats-Ruth L. Ozeki
• The Razor's Edge-W. Somerset Maugham
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue-Susan Vreeland
• Girl with a Pearl Earring-Tracy Chevalier
• Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe
• My Cousin Rachel-Daphne du Maurier
• A Country Year-Sue Hubbell
• The Red Tent-Anita Diamant
• Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
• Waiting-Ha Jin
• Having Our Say-Sara L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany
• The Archivist-Martha Cooley
• Riders of the Purple Sage-Zane Grey
• Victoria's Daughters-Jerrold M. Packard
• Musings of a Smiling Bull-Paul E. Wilson
• From Here to Eternity-James Jones
• The Left Hand of Darkness-Ursula K. LeGuin
• Julie and Romeo-Jeanne Ray
• Personal History-Katharine Graham
• Caravans-James A. Michener
• Portrait of a Lady-Henry James
• Galileo's Daughter-Dava Sobel
• All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
• Bridge of San Luis Rey-Thornton Wilder
• An Hour Before Daylight-Jimmy Carter
• East of Eden-John Steinbeck
• Alias Grace-Margaret Atwood
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse-Louise Erdrich
• Secrets of the Tsil Cafe-Thomas Fox Averill
• The Invisible Man-H.G. Wells
• Old Goriot-Honore de Balzac
• John Adams-David McCullough
• A Gesture Life-Chang Rae Lee
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstess-Dai Sijie
• Atonement-Ian McEwan
• Seabiscuit-Laura Hillenbrand
• Too Close to the Falls-Catherine Gildiner
• Five Quarters of the Orange-Joanne Harris
• The Other Boleyn Girl-Philippa Gregory
• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency-Alexander McCall Smith
• The Three Musketeers-Alexandre Dumas
• Reading Lolita in Tehran-Azar Nafisi
• One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Hero's Walk-Anita Rau Badami
• Pioneer Women-Joanna L. Stratton
• Woman in White-Wilke Collins
• Waiting for Snow in Havana-Carlos Eire
• Henderson the Rain King-Saul Bellow
• Tom Jones-Henry Fielding
• Candide-Voltaire
• The Devil in the White City-Erik Larson
• the curious incident of the dog in the night-time-Mark Haddon
• The Big House-George Howe Colt
• Prep-Curtis Sittenfeld
• The News from Paraquay-Lily Tuck
• Odyssey-Homer(translated by Lombardo)
• Cod-Mark Kurlansky
• The Sweet Hereafter-Russell Banks
• 1776-David McCullough
• Mountains Beyond Mountains-Tracy Kidder
• Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
• The Birth of Venus-Sarah Dunant
• Dracula-Bram Stoker
• The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
• The Center of Everything-Laura Moriarty
• Team of Rivals-Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Catch-22-Joseph Heller
• Gilgamesh-a novel-Joan London
• Hard Time-Sara Paretsky
• The Year of Magical Thinking-Joan Didion
• Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn Waugh
• All the King's Men-Robert Penn Warren
• Howards End-E.M. Forster
• A Long Long Way-Sebastian Barry
• March-Geraldine Brooks
• Love, Work, Children-Cheryl Mendelson
• The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Born on a Blue Day-Daniel Tammet
• A Thousand Spendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini
• Dandelion Wine-Ray Bradbury
• A Farewell Summer-Ray Bradbury
• Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights-Diane Eickhoff
• The Tender Bar-J.R.Moehringer
• The Road-Cormac McCarthy
• Loving Frank-Nancy Horan
• Disgrace-J. M. Coetzee
• Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
• A Family Torn Apart-Justina Neufeld
• The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
• The Friday Night Knitting Club-Kate Jacobs
• River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey-Candice Millard
• What is the What-Dave Eggers
• The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

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