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Rosemont-Old Town Book Club - Alexandria VA
Reading List: 1997-2008

2009

  • January: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • February: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
  • March: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

    • 2008

  • January: A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
  • February: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey: The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
  • March: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  • April: Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone
  • May: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  • June: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • July: Emma by Jane Austen
  • Aug/Sept.: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • October: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • November: In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
  • December: Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

    • 2007

  • January: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
  • February: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • March/April: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • May: Jennifer Government by Max Berry
  • June: Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
  • July: Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists by Jean H. Baker
  • Aug/Sept.: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
  • October: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • November: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

    • 2006

  • January: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  • Feb/March: You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
  • April: In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
  • May: The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
  • June: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
  • July: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Aug/Sept.: 1776 by David McCullough
  • October: March by Geraldine Brooks
  • November: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
  • December: It’s About Your Husband by Lauren Lipton

    • 2005

  • January: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • February: The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
  • March: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  • April: Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach
  • May: My Antonia by Willa Cather
  • June: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • July: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Aug/Sept.: Sons & Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
  • October: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • November: “Wise Blood” & “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
  • December: The Professor & The Madman by Simon Winchester

    • 2004

  • January: Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
  • February: The Three Junes by Julia Glass
  • March: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • April: The Samarai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
  • May: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • June: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • July: Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
  • Aug./Sept.: The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
  • October: The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
  • November: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
  • December: The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

    • 2003

  • January: Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
  • February: House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
  • March: Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
  • April: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • May: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • June: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • July: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Aug./Sept.: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  • October: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • November: Radical Equations: Math, Literacy & Civil Rights by Robert P. Moses & Charles E. Cobb Jr.
  • December: Longitude by Dava Sobel

    • 2002

  • January: Personal History by Katherine Graham
  • February: Nine Parts of Desire --- The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
  • March: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • April: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  • May: Berlin Diaries by Marie Vassiltchikov
  • June: Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
  • July: The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Pearl: by John Steinbeck
  • Aug./Sept.: The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough
  • October: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
  • November: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • December: Empire Falls by Richard Russo

    • 2001

  • January: Wild swans---Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
  • February: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  • March: A Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
  • April: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • May: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • June: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  • July: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier and Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  • Aug./Sept.: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • October: The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
  • November: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

    • 2000

  • January: Harry Potter/Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • February: Unvanquished by William Faulkner
  • March: Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
  • April: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  • May: The Cider House Rules by John Irving
  • June: Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
  • July: Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Aug./Sept.: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • October: I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
  • November: Moviegoer by Walker Percy

    • 1999

  • January: Dragon's Gate by Lawrence Yep
  • February: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
  • March: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • April: Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
  • May: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • June: the Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
  • July: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • September: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Marquez
  • October: Queen Lucia by Edward F. Benson
  • November: The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
  • December: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

    • 1998

  • January: Free choice poems
  • February: King Lear by Shakespeare
  • March: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  • April: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • May: Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
  • June: Conn. Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  • July: The Awakening by Karen Chopin
  • July: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
  • September: Last of the Mohicans by James F. Cooper
  • October: No Ordinary Time by Doris K. Goodwin
  • November: First Light by Charles Baxter
  • December: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

    • 1997

  • July: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • August: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
  • October: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
  • November: The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • December: Open Secrets by Alice Munro

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