2010 Adult Book Discussion List

All dates are Mondays at 7:00 PM

in the basement meeting room

 

January 25

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH

Jhumpa Lahiri

 

February 22

OLIVE KITTERIDGE

Elizabeth Strout

2009 Pulitzer Prize Fiction

 

March 22

CITY OF THIEVES

David Benioff

 

April 26

LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY

Tiffany Baker

 

May 24

THE LEISURE SEEKER

Michael Zadoorian

 

June 21

HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET

Jamie Ford

 

July 19

THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND

William Kamkwamba

Guest: Diane Kaufmann ELCA Northwest Wisconsin

Synod Coordinator for Malawi

 

August 23

THE HELP

Kathryn Stockett

 

September 27

LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

Colum McCann

2009 National Book Award for Fiction

 

October 25

LITTLE BEE

Chris Cleave

 

November 23

THE BIG BURN

Timothy Egan

 

 

 

2009 Adult Book Discussion List

 

LOVING FRANK - Nancy Horan

 

OUT STEALING HORSES - Per Peterson

 

SAND COUNTY ALMANAC - Aldo Leopold

 

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE - Barbara Kingsolver

 

THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY of a PART-TIME INDIAN - Sherman Alexie

 

PICTURING INDIANS - Steven Hoelscher

 

THE SHADOW CATCHER  -Marianne Wiggins

 

THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY - A. J. Jacobs

 

THE WHITE TIGER - Aravind Adiga

 

MUD BOUND - Hillary Jordan

 

THE 19TH WIFE - David Ebershoff

 

 

2008 Adult Book Discussion List

 

FIVE SKIES - Ron Carlson

 

LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID - Bill Bryson

 

ASTRID AND VERONIKA - Linda Olsson

 

ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac

 

THE THIRTEENTH TALE - Diane Setterfield

 

THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE - Masha Hamilton

 

POPULATION 485:MEETING YOUR NEIGHBORS ONE SIREN AT A TIME - Michael Perry

 

THE WORST HARD TIME - Timothy Egan

 

THREE CUPS OF TEA - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

 

THE WHISTLING SEASON - Ivan Doig

 

THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE - Diane Ackermann