Senior Center Book Discussion Group Previous Selections

2010

January 13, 2010 A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, Nicholas Drayson

February 10, 2010  A Mercy, by Toni Morrison

March 10, 2010 Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym

2009

January 14, 2009 Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen

February 11, 2009 Foreign Correspondence, Geraldine Brooks

March 11, 2009 Traveling Librarian Visits Ecuador program

April 8, 2009 Digging to America, Anne Tyler

May 13, 2009 Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner

June 10, 2009 The Wedding, Dorothy West

September 9, 2009 Julie & Julia, Julie Powell

with My Life in France, Julia Child

October 14, 2009 The Path: A One Mile Walk through the Universe, Chet Raymo

November 18, 2009 The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James

December 9, 2009 Ladies of Liberty, by Cokie Roberts

2008

January 9, 2008 Tips for finding your next book

February 13, 2008 True Notebooks, Mark Salzman

March 12, 2008 Poetry 180, Billy Collins

April 12, 2008 Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman, Alice Steinbach

May 14, 2008 Blackbird House, Alice Hoffman

June 11, 2007 I Thought My Father Was God, Paul Auster, ed.

September 10, 2008 Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick

October 7, 2008 The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

November 12, 2008 Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression, Mildred Armstrong Kalish

2007

January 10, 2007 Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, Ross King

February 14, 2007  Washington’s Crossing, David Hackett Fischer

March 14, 2007 Ireland: A Novel, Frank Delaney

April 11, 2007 Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground, Peter Svenson

May 14, 2007 My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell

June 13, 2007 The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, George Howe Colt

September 13, 2007 Middlemarch, George Elliot

October 10, 2007 American Bloomsbury, Susan Cheever

November 14, 2007 Wine & War, Don & Petie Kladstrup

December 12, 2007 The Thanksgiving Visitor & A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote

2006

January 11, 2006 Under the Banner of Heaven, John Krakauer

February 8, 2006 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

March 8, 2006 Gifts from the Sea, Ann Morrow Lindburgh

April 12, 2006 Holy Cow:  An Indian Adventure, Sarah MacDonald

May 10, 2006 In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson

June 14, 2006 Blue Highways:  A Journey into America, William Least Heat-Moon

September 13, 2006 Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith

October 11, 2006 Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury

November 8, 2006 The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw

December 13, 2006 Redbird Christmas, Fannie Flagg

2005

January 5, 2005  Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi

February 2, 2005 The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith

March 9, 2005 City of the Soul: A Walk in Rome, William Murray

April 13, 2005 Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

May 11, 2005 Pompeii:  A Novel, Robert Harris

June 8, 2005 Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi

September 14, 2005 From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman

October 11, 2005 The Devil and the White City, Erik Larson

November 9, 2005 Inside the Kingdom My Life in Saudi Arabia, Carmen bin Ladin

December 14, 2005 Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz