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Our monthly Page Turners' Book Club, formed in early 2006, embraces both
fiction and non-fiction. Club members have thus far read--and
enthusiastically discussed--the books listed below, which were
suggested by participants.
Our Page Turners' Book Club meets the first Thursday of the month at 3:00 pm
at a member's home. RSVP to Carol.
Upcoming dates and selections
March 1, 2012 - Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
April 5, 2012 - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Previous selections
2012
Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra, a Life
2011
Tom Rachman - The Imperfectionists
Daniel Levin - The Last Ember
Jodi Picoult - House Rules
Tracy Chevalier - Remarkable Creatures
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Chris Cleve - Little Bee
Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna
Abraham Verghese - Cutting for Stone
Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
Peter Manseau - Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2010
Lisa See - Shanghai Girls
Anchee Min - Pearl of China
Dave Eggers - Zeitoun
Zoe Farraris - Finding Nouf
Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisa Scottoline - Look Again
Kathryn Stockett - The Help
Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Sashenka
Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Lucia Graves - The Shadow of the Wind
2009
Rich Cohen - Sweet and Low: A Family Story
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel
Pie Society
Geraldine Brooks - March
Barack Obama - Dreams From My Father
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Nancy Horan - Loving Frank: A Novel
Daniel Silva - The Kill Artist
Ken Follett - World Without End
2008
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
Across Italy,
India and Indonesia
William Faulkner - Light in August
Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book: A Novel
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's
Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
T.C. Boyle - Talk Talk
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
2007
Edward P. Jones - The Known World
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle: a Memoir
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants, a Novel
Khaled Hosseini - Kite Runner
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters
Katharine Graham - Personal History
Kim Edwards - Memory Keeper's Daughter
2006
Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness
at the Fair that Changed America
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
T. C. Boyle - Tortilla Curtain
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Elie Wiesel - "The Night Trilogy," i.e. Night, Dawn, and Day aka The Accident
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