The Life of a Book Club: 20 Years and 146 Books Later

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by Jessica Doyle

Thanks Jessica

List of books interesting ... I have only read a few as in red. Douglas

 

·              1995

·              Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

·              The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley

·              The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

·              1996

·              The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

·              The Famished Road by Ben Okri

·              The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope

·              The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore

·              The Riders by Tim Winton

·              The Innocence of Age by Neil Bissoondath

·              Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley

·              1997

·              The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

·              A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

·              Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

·              Asta's Book by Barbara Vine

·              Transgressions by Sarah Dunant

·              Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

·              Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

·              1998

·              The Cure for Death by Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

·              Last Orders by Graham Swift

·              Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald

·              The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

·              The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt

·              High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

·              The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga

·              The Secret History by Donna Tartt

·              1999

·              Possession by A.S. Byatt

·              Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

·              The Beach by Alex Garland

·              The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

·              Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

·              Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

·              Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

·              Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

·              2000

·              The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

·              Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay

·              The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne by Jack Hodgins

·              Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

·              Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

·              The Hours by Michael Cunningham

·              The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts

·              White Teeth by Zadie Smith

·              2001

·              Fall of the Sparrow by Robert Hellenga

·              A Good House by Bonnie Burnard

·              Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson

·              That Same Flower by Jostein Gaarder

·              Blindness by Jose Saramago

·              The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

·              The Walled Garden by Catherine Dunne

·              Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

·              2002

·              The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

·              Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

·              The Human Stain by Philip Roth

·              What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin

·              The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

·              The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve

·              Our Lady of the Lost and Found
by Diane Schoemperlen

·              The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

·              2003

·              She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

·              Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

·              No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

·              Life of Pi by Yann Martel

·              Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley

·              Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

·              Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

·              2004

·              Coastliners by Joanne Harris

·              Three Junes by Julia Glass

·              The Republic of Love by Carol Shields

·              Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

·              The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

·              The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon

·              The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

·              2005

·              The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

·              The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

·              A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSoto

·              Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin

·              Sylvanus Now by Donna Morrissey

·              A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews

·              Adultery by Richard B. Wright

·              2006

·              The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

·              The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood

·              Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

·              Small Island by Andrea Levy

·              The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

·              Luck by Joan Barfoot

·              The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

·              2007

·              The Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

·              Rogue's Wedding by Terry Griggs

·              Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

·              Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

·              Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

·              Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

·              A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka

·              2008

·              The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

·              Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Olive Relin

·              The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

·              The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

·              Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

·              The Witch of Portobello by Paul Coelho

·              Atonement by Ian McEwan

·              What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

·              2009

·              Restless by William Boyd

·              Run by Ann Patchett

·              Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

·              A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

·              The Wife Tree by Dorothy Speak

·              The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

·              In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant

·              Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot

·              2010

·              Still Alice by Lisa Genova

·              The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

·              The Guernsey Literary and the Potato Peel Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

·              Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

·              The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

·              The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley

·              Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

·              One Day by David Nicholls

·              2011

·              Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

·              Deafening by Frances Itani

·              Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

·              The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

·              The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

·              House Rules by Jodi Picoult

·              Private Life by Jane Smiley

·              Solar by Ian McEwan

·              2012

·              The Master of Happy Endings by Jack Hodgins

·              The Beauty of the Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb

·              The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

·              Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

·              Shelter by Frances Greenslade

·              Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

·              2013

·              Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

·              The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

·              The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

·              The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

·              The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

·              The Red House by Mark Haddon

·              2014

·              Some Great Thing by Lawrence Hill

·              Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver

·              Annabel by Kathleen Winter

·              The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

·              The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

·              Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

·              Love Anthony by Lisa Genova

·              All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

·              Up next in 2015...

·              Eyrie by Tim Winton

·              Stoner by John Williams

·              All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

·              A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki