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Randolph Library Adult Book Club Choices 2009-2010
| Fiction |
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| Ali, Monica | Brick Lane | 2003 |
| Brooks, Geraldine | People of the Book | 2008 |
| Cleave, Chris | Little Bee | 2009 |
| Ford, Jamie | Hotel of the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | 2009 |
| Hart, John | The Last Child | 2009 |
| Horan, Nancy | Loving Frank | 2007 |
| Pym, Barbara | Excellent Women | 1980 |
| Russo, Richard | That Old Cape Magic | 2009 |
| Strout, Elizabeth | Olive Kitteridge | 2008 |
Randolph Library Adult Book Club Choices 2008-2009
| Fiction |
| de Rosnay, Tatiana |
Sarah’s Key |
2008 |
| Diaz, Junot |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
2007 |
| Doctorow, E. L. |
The March |
2005 |
| Hornby, Nick |
How to be Good |
2001 |
| Lamb, Wally |
I Know This Much is True |
1998 |
| Martin, Lee |
The Bright Forever |
2006 |
| McDermott , Alice |
After This |
2007 |
| O’Nan, Stewart |
Last Night at the Lobster |
2007 |
| Petterson, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
2007 |
| Powers, Richard |
The Echo Maker |
2007 |
| Umrigar, Thrity |
If Today be Sweet |
2007 |
| Updike, John |
Rabbit, Run |
1960 |
| Vreeland, Susan |
Luncheon of the Boating Party |
2007 |
Randolph Library Adult Book Club Choices 2007-2008
| Fiction |
| Cisneros, Sandra |
The House on Mango Street |
1984 |
| Diaz, Junot |
Drown |
1996 |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope |
The Bookshop |
1997 |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
2005 |
| Franzen, Jonathan |
The Corrections |
2001 |
| Frayn, Michael |
Headlong |
1999 |
| Goodman, Allegra |
Kaaterskill Falls |
1998 |
| Gruen, Sara |
Water for Elephants |
2006 |
| Hamill, Pete |
Forever |
2003 |
| Hijuelos, Oscar |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
1989 |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
2003 |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
2003 |
| Lewis, Sinclair |
Elmer Gantry |
1927 |
| Mankell, Henning |
Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery |
2005 |
| Mason, Daniel |
The Piano Tuner |
2002 |
| Orner, Peter |
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo |
2006 |
| Pessl, Marisha |
Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
2006 |
| Reynolds, Sheri |
A Gracious Plenty |
1997 |
| Rhys, Jean |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
1966 |
| Rice, Anne |
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt |
2005 |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Gilead |
2004 |
| Roth, Philip |
The Plot Against America |
2004 |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis |
Prep |
2005 |
| Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
2000 |
| Stone, Robert |
Damascus Gate |
1998 |
| Waugh, Evelyn |
A Handful of Dust |
1934 |
| |
| Nonfiction |
| Bryson, Bill |
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir |
2006 |
| Bryson, Bill |
A Short History of Nearly Everything |
2003 |
| Moehringer, J. R. |
The Tender Bar: A Memoir |
2005 |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel |
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War |
2006 |
| Roberts, Steven |
My Fathers’ Houses: Memoir of a Family |
2005 |
| Seierstad, Asne |
The Bookseller of Kabul |
2003 |
| Twain, Mark |
The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress |
1869 |
Randolph Library Adult Book Club Choices 2005-2006
| Fiction |
| Alexander, Robert |
The Kitchen Boy |
2003 |
| Ali, Monica |
Brick Lane |
2003 |
| Anaya, Rudolfo |
Bless Me, Ultima |
1972 |
| Bowles, Paul |
The Sheltering Sky |
1949 |
| Caputo, Philip |
Acts of Faith |
2005 |
| Dalton, John |
Heaven Lake |
2004 |
| Doctorow, E. L. |
The March |
2005 |
| Doctorow, E. L. |
Ragtime |
1975 |
| Dunant, Sarah |
The Birth of Venus |
2004 |
| Edwards, Kim |
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter |
2005 |
| Erdrich, Louise |
The Master Butchers Singing Club |
2002 |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
2002 |
| Faber, Michel |
The Crimson Petal and the White |
2002 |
| Forster, E.M. |
Howards End |
1910 |
| Furst, Alan |
Dark Voyage |
2004 |
| Greene, Graham |
The Quiet American |
1956 |
| Haruf, Kent |
Eventide |
2004 |
| Hornby, Nick |
About a Boy |
1998 |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
2003 |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Never Let Me Go |
2005 |
| James, P. D. |
The Murder Room |
2003 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Bean Trees |
1988 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Pigs in Heaven |
1993 |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
2003 |
| Le Carre, John |
Absolute Friends |
2003 |
| Lee, Don |
Country of Origin |
2004 |
| Mukherjee, Bharati |
Desirable Daughters |
2002 |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter |
Ahab’s Wife, or, The Star-Gazer |
1999 |
| Senna, Danzy |
Caucasia |
1998 |
| Shamsie, Kamila |
Broken Verses |
2005 |
| Shields, Jody |
The Fig Eater |
2000 |
| Spark, Muriel |
A Far Cry from Kensington |
1988 |
| Spencer, Scott |
A Ship Made of Paper |
2003 |
| Tuck, Lilly |
The News from Paraguay |
2004 |
| Yezierska, Anzia |
Bread Givers: A Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the New |
1923 |
| |
| Nonfiction |
| Blunt, Judy |
Breaking Clean |
2002 |
| Feiler, Bruce S. |
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses |
2001 |
| Fuller, Alexandra |
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood |
2001 |
| Hayslip, Le Ly |
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace |
1989 |
| Larson, Erik |
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America |
2003 |
| Nafisi, Azar |
Reading Lolita in Tehran |
2003 |
| Thoreau, Henry David |
Walden |
1854 |
| Urrea, Luis Alberto |
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story |
2004 |
Randolph Library Adult Book Club Choices 2003-2004
| Fiction |
| Bahr, Howard |
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War |
2000 |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
1953 |
| Chevalier, Tracy |
The Girl with a Pearl Earring |
2000 |
| Clavell, James |
Shogun: A Novel of Japan |
1975 |
| Cross, Donna Woolfolk |
Pope Joan |
1996 |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
2001 |
| Davenport, Kiana |
Song of the Exile |
1999 |
| Dewberry, Elizabeth |
Sacrament of Lies |
2002 |
| Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd |
1998 |
| Gordimer, Nadine |
The Pickup |
2001 |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
2002 |
| Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
1937 |
| Jin, Ha |
Waiting |
1999 |
| Kincaid, Jamaica |
Annie John |
1985 |
| Kunzru, Hari |
The Impressionist |
2002 |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories |
1999 |
| Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
1960 |
| Lent, Jeffrey |
In the Fall |
2000 |
| Lewis, Sinclair |
Kingsblood Royal |
1947 |
| Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi |
2001 |
| McCall Smith, Alexander |
Tears of the Giraffe |
2002 |
| McEwan, Ian |
Atonement |
2002 |
| Packer, Ann |
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier |
2002 |
| Phillips, Arthur |
Prague |
2002 |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
2001 |
| Saramago, Jose |
Blindness |
1998 |
| Sawyer, Robert J. |
Calculating God |
2000 |
| Turow, Scott |
Reversible Errors |
2002 |
| |
| Nonfiction |
|
Angelou, Maya |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
1969 |
| Ball, Edward |
Slaves in the Family |
1997 |
| Bender, Sue |
Plain and Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish |
1989 |
| Hickam, Homer H. |
The Coalwood Way |
2000 |
| Hillenbrand, Laura |
Seabiscuit: An American Legend |
2001 |
| Mah, Adeline Yen |
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter |
1998 |
| McPhee, John |
Pine Barrens |
1968 |
| Mehta, Gita |
Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of India |
1997 |
| Nafisi, Azar |
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
2003 |
| Samuels, Klara |
God Does Play Dice: The Autobiography of a Holocaust Survivor |
1999 |
Randolph Library Adult Book Club Choices 2001-2002
| Fiction |
| Achebe, Chinua |
Things Fall Apart |
1959 |
| Atwood, Margaret |
Alias Grace |
1996 |
| Barrett, Andrea |
Voyage of the Narwhal |
1998 |
| Berne, Suzanne |
A Crime in the Neighborhood |
1997 |
| Dallas, Sandra |
The Persian Pickle Club |
1995 |
| Dallas, Sandra |
The Diary of Mattie Spenser |
1997 |
| Deane, Seamus |
Reading in the Dark |
1997 |
| Eggers, Dave |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
2000 |
| Ellison, Ralph |
Juneteenth |
1999 |
| Erdrich, Louise |
Love Medicine: New and Expanded Version |
1993 |
| Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
1886 |
| Gloss, Molly |
The Jump-Off Creek |
1989 |
| Goldberg, Myla |
Bee Season |
2000 |
| Haruf, Kent |
Plainsong |
1999 |
| Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer |
Heat and Dust |
1976 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Poisonwood Bible |
1998 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Animal Dreams |
1990 |
| Marshall, Paule |
Daughters |
1991 |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
All the Pretty Horses |
1992 |
| Mosley, Walter |
Walkin’ the Dog |
1999 |
| Rand, Ayn |
Atlas Shrugged |
1957 |
| Ray, Jeanne |
Julie and Romeo |
2000 |
| Roy, Arundhati |
The God of Small Things |
1997 |
| Schlink, Bernhard |
The Reader |
1997 |
| Shaara, Michael |
The Killer Angels |
1974 |
| Shigekuni, Julie |
A Bridge Between Us |
1995 |
| Shute, Nevil |
A Town Like Alice |
1950 |
| Stegner, Wallace |
The Spectator Bird |
1976 |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
Amy and Isabelle |
1998 |
| Tan, Amy |
The Bonesetter’s Daughter |
2001 |
| Trevor, William |
Felicia’s Journey |
1995 |
| Wells, Rebecca |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
1996 |
| Wynd, Oswald |
The Ginger Tree |
1977 |
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| Nonfiction |
| Abbey, Edward |
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness |
1968 |
| Allende, Isabel |
Paula |
1995 |
| Ambrose, Stephen E. |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
1996 |
| Bowden, Mark |
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War |
1999 |
| Carter, Jimmy |
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood |
2001 |
| Chang, Iris |
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II |
1997 |
| Norman, Elizabeth M. |
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese |
1999 |
| O’Faolain, Nuala |
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman |
1998 |
| Smith, Dennis |
A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory |
1999 |
| Suberman, Stella |
The Jew Store |
1998 |
Randolph Library Adult Book Club Choices 1999-2000
| Fiction |
| Capote, Truman |
Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
1958 |
| Childress, Mark |
Crazy in Alabama |
1993 |
| Cunningham, Michael |
The Hours |
1998 |
| Cushman, Karen |
The Midwife’s Apprentice |
1995 |
| Danticat, Edwidge |
Farming of Bones |
1998 |
| Dorris, Michael |
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
1987 |
| Finney, Jack |
Time and Again |
1970 |
| Flagg, Fannie |
Coming Attractions: A Wonderful Novel (reissued as Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man in 1992) |
1981 |
| Folsom, Allan |
Day after Tomorrow |
1994 |
| Fowles, John |
The Magus: A Revised Version |
1978 |
| Fredriksson, Marianne |
Hanna’s Daughters |
1998 |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
Of Love and Other Demons |
1995 |
| Godden, Rumer |
An Episode of Sparrows |
1955 |
| Golden, Arthur |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
1997 |
| Hamill, Pete |
Snow in August |
1997 |
| Harris, Joanne |
Chocolat |
1999 |
| Irving, John |
A Prayer for Owen Meany |
1989 |
| Keillor, Garrison |
Wobegon Boy |
1997 |
| Lamb, Wally |
She’s Come Undone |
1992 |
| Landvik, Lorna |
Patty Jane’s House of Curl |
1995 |
| Maugham, W. Somerset |
The Moon and Sixpence |
1919 |
| McDermott, Alice |
Charming Billy |
1998 |
| Michener, James A. |
The Novel |
1991 |
| Miller, Dawn |
The Journal of Callie Wade |
1996 |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
You Must Remember This |
1987 |
| Osborn, Karen |
Between Earth and Sky |
1996 |
| Potok, Chaim |
Davita’s Harp |
1984 |
| Shreve, Anita |
The Weight of Water |
1997 |
| Stegner, Wallace |
Angle of Repose |
1971 |
| Stendhal |
The Red and the Black |
1830 |
| Truman, Margaret |
Murder at the Kennedy Center |
1989 |
| Vine, Barbara |
Anna’s Book |
1993 |
| Youmans, Marly |
Catherwood |
1996 |
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| Nonfiction |
| Brave Bird, Mary |
Lakota Woman |
1990 |
| Bryson, Bill |
Notes from a Small Island |
1995 |
| Delany, Sarah & Annie |
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years |
1993 |
| Fadiman, Anne |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
1997 |
| Horowitz, Joy |
Tessie and Pearlie |
1996 |
| Horwitz, Tony |
Confederates in the Attic |
1998 |
| Kidder, Tracy |
Among Schoolchildren |
1989 |
| Krakauer, John |
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster |
1997 |
| Latham, Aaron |
The Ballad of Gussie and Clyde |
1997 |
| Sacks, Oliver |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales |
1985 |
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