DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

PUBLIC LIBRARY

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Books we have selected for discussion:

 

Allende, Isabel                  Daughter of Fortune ****

Ansay, Manette A.           Vinegar Hill **

Archer, Jeffrey                 Sons of Fortune *

Arundhati, Roy                 God of Small Things ***

Bainbridge, Beryl            Every man for himself *

Bakoulos, Dean               Please don’t come back from the moon

Beck, Martha Nibley        Expecting Adam ***

Berg, Elizabeth                 Open House **

Bernendt, John                 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ***

Binchy, Maeve                  Tara Road ***

Bohjalian, Chris                Midwives ****

Chevalier, Tracey                Girl with a Pearl Earring *****

Chaon, Dan                       You remind me of me ***

Clarke, Breena                  River Cross My Heart **

Cook, Thomas                     Chatham School Affair **

Coraghesan, Boyle T.      Tortilla Curtain ****

Cross, Donna Woolfolk   Pope Joan: A Novel  ***

Dai, Sijie                            Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress ****

Dubus, Andre                       House of Sand & Fog *****

Enger, Leif                        Peace Like a River ***

Edwards, Kim                   Memory Keepers Daughter****

Fergus, Jim                      One Thousand White Women  ***

Frasier, Charles               Cold Mountain *****

Fredriksson, Mariann      Hanna’s Daughters ***

Gibbons, Kaye                  Ellen Foster  ****

Gibbons, Kaye                 On the Occasion of my Last Afternoon **

Gregory, Philipa              The Other Boleyn*****

 

Guterson, David              Snow Falling on Cedars *****

Haddon, Mark                  Curious Incident of the Dog  ***

Haien, Jeannette             The All of It  *

Hegi, Ursula                    Stones from the River   ****

Hillenbrand, Laura          Seabiscuit   *****

Hosseini, Khaled             The Kite Runner   *****

Horan, Nancy                   Loving Frank ****

Irving, John                    Cider House Rules   ***

Johnson, Wayne             Colony of Unrequited Dreams ****

Keiller, Garrison               Lake Wobegon Days *

Kerwin, Doris Goodwin   Team of Rivals **

Khadra, Yasmina              Swallows of Kabul  ****

Kingsolver, Barbara         Poisonwood Bible  ****

Kingsolver, Barbara         Prodigal Summer  ***

Krauss, Nicole                     History of Love  **

Lamb, Wally                       I Know this much is true   ***

Larson, Erik                      Devil in the White City****

Lahiri, Jhumpa                  Namesake****

Letts, Billie                         Where the Heart Is  ***

Marquez, Gabriel               One Hundred Years of Solitude (-1)

Martel, Yann                       Life of Pi **

McBride, James                Color of Water   ***                                

McCall Smith, R.A.           No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency  ***

McPhee, John                   The Pine Barrens  *

Miller, Sue                          While I Was Gone  ****

Mitchard, Jacqueline          Deep End of the Ocean  ****

Morgan, Robert                   Gap Creek  ***

O’Brian, Tim                       Things They Carried

Piccolt, Jodi                       My Sister’s Keeper  ****

Proulx, Annie E.                Shipping News  ***

Rendell, Ruth                       Bridesmaid **

 

 

Robinson, Marilynne          Gilead  *

Russo, Richard                   Empire Falls **

Schlink, Berhard                 The Reader  ****

Shreve, Anita                        The Pilot’s Wife

Tan, Amy                          The Kitchen Gods Wife  ****

Tartt, Donna                     The Little Friend  **

Trigiani, Adriana              Big Stone Gap    ****

Tyler, Anne                      Ladder of Years  ***

Updike, John                   In the Beauty of the Lilies  **

Vreeland, Susan             Girl in Hyacinth Blue ***

Wood, Gertrude               Sincerely Yours  *

 

Ratings Guide:

***** Outstanding

**** Recommended

*** Ok , but not great

** Disappointing

* Poor