Contemporary
Book Group
The
third Wednesday of the month, 2 p.m.
Blue Bell Community Room at the WVPL
Join us
each month for the discussion of a current contemporary book.
no book group planned for December 2008
Past selections
included:
November : Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
October : The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
September : The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
May : The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
April : Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
February : Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcbia Mbarquez
2008 January : Peony in Love by Lisa See
November : The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Fowler
September : A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
June : The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
May : Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
April : Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
March : The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls
February : The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
2007 January : Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
November : The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
October : The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
April : Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
March : The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
February : Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
2006 January : A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
November : Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
October : The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
September : 100 Secret Senses by Amy Tan
May : Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
April : The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
March : Dive from Claussen's
Pier by Ann Packer
February : Seabiscuit by Laura
Hildebrand
2005 January : Three Junes
by Julia Glass
December : The Asylum by Patrick McGrath
November : Plainsong by Ken Haruf
October : Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
September : The Amateur Marriage by Ann Tyler
June : The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
May : This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
April : The Color of Water by James McBride
March : Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
2004 January : The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
October : John Adams by David
G. McCullough
August : Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland