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2nd Wednesday of the Month Book Club - Lawrence KS
Reading List: 1998 to 2008

• Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
• The Faith Club - Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
• The Last Town on Earth - Thomas Mullen
• West with the Night - Beryl Markham
• Family Tree - Barbara Delinsky
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - Terry Ryan
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
• The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
• Death du Jour - Lon Jane Temple
• An Alphabetical Life - Wendy Werris
• Night - E. Wiesel
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Z. N. Hurston
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - J.S. Foer
• A Good Year - P. Mayle
• Wickett’s Remedy - M. Goldberg
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - K. Edwards
• The Myth of You and Me - L. Stewart
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - B. Smith
• Capture the Castle - D. Smith
• The March - E. L. Doctorow
• The Other Boleyn Girl - P. Gregory
• Waiting - Ha Jin
• Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
• The Closers – Michael Connelly
• The Dew Breaker – Edwidge Danticat
• The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
• Patron Saint of Liars – Ann Patchett
• The Way the Crow Flies – AnnMarie MacDonald
• The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing – Melissa Bank
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• You Are Not a Stranger Here – Adam Haslett
• Emma – Jane Austen
• The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethia Darcy – E. Ashton
• I Am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe
• The Big House – George Howell Colt
• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
• The Master Butchers Singing Club – Louise Erdrich
• A Town Named Alice – N. Shute
• The Opposite of Fate – Amy Tan
• Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
• A Moveable Feast – E. Hemingway
• To the Nines – Janet Evanovich
• Plant Life – Pamela Duncan
• The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson – Thomas Fox Averill
• Patty James House of Curl – Lorna Landvik
• The Seduction of Water – Carol Goodman
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven – M. Albom
• Three Junes – Julia Glass
• Unless – Carol Shields
• The DaVinci Code – D. Brown
• The Secret Life of Bees – S. Monk Kidd
• Atonement – Ian McEwan
• Five Quarters of an Orange – J. Harris
• Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 – G. Keillor
• In the Bleak MidWinter – J. Spencer-Fleming
• Like Water for Chocolate – Esquivel
• Bel Canto – A. Patchett
• Enemy Women – Paulette Jiles
• The Chosen – C. Potok
• Big Stone Gap – Trigiani
• Peace Like a River – L. Enger
• My Antonia – Willa Cather
• Summer – E. Wharton
• Candide – Voltaire
• The Lovely Bones – A. Sebold
• Seabiscuit – L. Hellenbrand
• Justice – Dominic Dunne
• These Granite Islands – S. Stonich
• Kitchen Confidential – A. Bourdain
• Bad Girl Creek – J. Mapson
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter – A. Tan
• Shopgirl – S. Martin
• The Girl with the Pearl Earring – Chevalier
• Disobedience – J. Hamilton
• The Name of the Rose – U. Eco
• Two Moons – T. Mallon
• The Girls – H. Yglesias
• Summer Sisters – Judy Blume
• The Greatest Generation – T. Brokaw
• A Very Long Engagement – Japriso
• Bridget Jones’ Diary – H. Fielding
• The Dress Lodger – S. Holman
• Plainsong – Haruff
• T’is – F. McCourt
• Stones for Ibarra – H. Doerr
• The Red Tent – A. Diamant
• Into the Wild – J. Krakauer
• Clear Spring – B. Mason
• Herzog – S. Bellows
• Breathing Lessons – A. Tyler
• The House of the Spirits – Allende
• Gone for Good – M. Childers
• The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton – J. Smiley
• The Persian Pickle Club – S. Dallas
• Harry Potter – J. Rowling
• The Old Man and the Sea – E. Hemingway
• The Pilot’s Wife – A. Shreve
• Angela’s Ashes – F. McCourt
• Memoirs of a Geisha – A Golden
• The Book of Ruth – J. Hamilton
• Grilling Season - Mott Davidson
• O Pioneers – Willa Cather
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – M. Angelou
• Poetry – Billy Collins
• Crossing to Safety – W. Stegner
• Stones from the River – U. Hegi
• A Virtuous Woman – K. Gibbons
• The God of Small Things – A. Roy
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back – T. McMillan
• High Tide in Tuscon – B. Kingsolver
• The Hundred Secret Senses – A. Tan
• The Gift from the Sea – A.M. Lindbergh
• Summer at the Lake - A. Greeley
• Under the Tuscan Sun – Mayes
• Snow Falling on Cedars – D. Guterson
• A Is for Alibi – S. Grafton

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