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 March 24, 2001 Supplemental coverage |
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Reading Selection History |
Original members included Lucy Conti, Karen Lamont, Meredith Gandy, Carole Kleinknecht, Barbie Swanson, and Ann O'Grady, at whose home we held our first meeting. |
| 1981 | |||
| Mar | Daniel Martin | John Fowles | |
| May | Innocent Blood | P. D. James | |
| June | Creek Mary's Blood | Dee Brown | |
| July | Cable Harbor | (who cares?) | |
| Sept | The Life I Really Lived | Jessamyn West | |
| Oct | Plain Song | Wright Morris | |
| Nov | The World According to Garp | John Irving | |
| Dec | The Year of the French | Thomas Flanagan | |
| 1982 | |||
| Jan | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |
| Feb | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | |
| Mar | The Princess and the Goblin The Princess and Curdie | George MacDonald | |
| Apr | Alice Adams | Booth Tarkington | |
| May | Time and Again | Jack Finney | |
| June | The Second Coming | Walker Percy | |
| July | Chiefs | Stuart Woods | |
| Aug | The Midwife | Gay Courter | |
| Sept | Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead Gift from the Sea | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| Oct | Spring Moon | Bette Bao Lord | |
| Nov | Dad | William Wharton | |
| Dec | Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike | |
| 1983 | |||
| Jan | Blithe Spirit, Private Lives | Noel Coward | |
| Feb | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | |
| Mar | The Collector | John Fowles | |
| Apr | Morgan's Passing | Anne Tyler | |
| May | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |
| June | Tim | Colleen McCullough | |
| July | Birdie | William Wharton | |
| Aug | Kate | Charles Higham | |
| Sept | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler | |
| Oct | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |
| Nov | Clan of the Cave Bear | Jean Auel | |
| Dec | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 1984 | |||
| Jan | Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | |
| Feb | The Manticore World of Wonders | Robertson Davies | |
| Mar | Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | |
| Apr | Blue Highways | William Least Heat Moon | |
| May | A Mother and Two Daughters | Gail Godwin | |
| June | Eleanor | Rhoda Lerman | |
| July | The Natural | Bernard Malamud | |
| Sept | The Bostonians | Henry James | |
| Oct | Growing Up | Russell Baker | |
| Nov | Journey | Robert and Suzanne Massie | |
| Dec | Excellent Women | Barbara Pym | |
| 1985 | |||
| Jan | Howard's End | E.M. Forster | |
| Feb | Winter's Tale | Mark Helprin | |
| Mar | A Midnight Clear | William Wharton | |
| Apr | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | |
| May | Justine | Lawrence Durrell | |
| June | Legs | William Kennedy | |
| July | A Woman of Independent Means | Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey | |
| Sept | And Ladies of the Club | Helen Hooven Santmyer | |
| Oct | The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain | |
| Dec | The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 1986 | |||
| Jan | Bronx Primitive | Kate Simon | |
| Feb | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | |
| Mar | A Severed Wasp | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| Apr | The Finishing School | Gail Godwin | |
| May | Agatha Christie | Agatha Christie | |
| June | Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession | Erma Bombeck | |
| Penny Candy | Jean Kerr | ||
| July | Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner | |
| Sept | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Honourable Schoolboy Smiley's People | John LeCarre | |
| Oct | East River | Scholem Asch | |
| Nov | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | |
| Dec | The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis | |
| 1987 | |||
| Jan | Of Human Bondage | Somerset Maugham | |
| Feb | The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler | |
| Mar | Study in Scarlet Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| Apr | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | |
| May | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | |
| Aug | Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery | |
| Sept | Kristin Lavransdatter | Sigrid Undset | |
| Oct | Parallel Lives | Phyllis Rose | |
| Nov | Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | |
| Dec | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 1988 | |||
| Jan | The Beet Queen | Louise Erdrich | |
| Feb | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula LeGuin | |
| Mar | The Other Side of the Sun | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| Apr | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |
| May | A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor | |
| June | Cry, The Beloved Country | Allan Paton | |
| July | West With the Night | Beryl Markham | |
| Sept | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoi | |
| Oct | Straight On Til Morning | Mary S. Lovell | |
| Nov | Berlin Diaries | Marie Vassiltchikov | |
| Dec | Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow | |
| 1989 | |||
| Jan | Tidings | William Wharton | |
| Feb | 84 Charing Cross Road Duchess of Bloomsbury Street | Helene Hanff | |
| Mar | Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | |
| Apr | Beloved | Toni Morrison | |
| May | The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy | |
| June | The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher | |
| July | Rebecca | Daphne DuMaurier | |
| Sept | The Raj Quartet | Paul Scott | |
| Oct | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |
| Nov | The Education of Little Tree | Forrest Carter | |
| Dec | The All of It | Jeannette Haien | |
| 1990 | |||
| Jan | The Great Santini | Pat Conroy | |
| Feb | Life and Death in Shanghai | Nien Cheng | |
| Mar | The Lords of Discipline | Pat Conroy | |
| Apr | Time Will Darken It | Thomas Maxwell | |
| May | A Taste for Death | P. D. James | |
| June | A Woman of Egypt | Jihan Sadat | |
| July | Teaching a Stone To Talk | Annie Dillard | |
| Sept | Louder Than Words | edited by William Shore | |
| Oct | Among Schoolchildren | Tracey Kidder | |
| Dec | The Closing of the American Mind | Allan Bloom | |
| 1991 | |||
| Jan | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | |
| Feb | The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Allan Gurganus | |
| Mar | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| Apr | Henry V | William Shakespeare | |
| May | Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner | |
| June | Annie John | Jamaica Kincaid | |
| July | The Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor | Flannery O'Connor | |
| Sept | Possession | A. S. Byatt | |
| Oct | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| Nov | Legacies | Bette Bao Lord | |
| 1992 | |||
| Jan | May Your Days Be Merry and Bright | edited by Susan Koppelmann | |
| Feb | My Place | Sally Morgan | |
| Mar | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | |
| May | The House of Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| June | Leaving Cheyenne | Larry McMurtry | |
| July | The Kitchen God's Wife | Amy Tan | |
| Sept | The Rebel Angels | Robertson Davies | |
| Oct | Solomon Gursky Was Here | Mordecai Richler | |
| Nov | Outer Banks | Anne Rivers Siddons | |
| Dec | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | |
| 1993 | |||
| Jan | East Is East | T. Coraghessian Boyle | |
| Feb | Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| Mar | Master and Commander | Patrick O'Brian | |
| Apr | Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison | |
| May | The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller | |
| June | The Ginger Tree | Oswald Wynd | |
| July | Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo | Ntozake Shange | |
| Aug-Sept | Sarum | Edward Rutherfurd | |
| Oct | The Living | Annie Dillard | |
| Nov | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Dec | Clover | Dori Sanders | |
| 1994 | |||
| Jan | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | |
| Feb | Spartina | John Casey | |
| Mar | The Road to Coorain | Jill Ker Conway | |
| Apr | Crossing To Safety | Wallace Stegner | |
| May | The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| June | The Longest Day | Cornelius Ryan | |
| July | A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest Gaines | |
| Aug-Sept | The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R. Tolkien | |
| Oct | Trinity | Leon Uris | |
| Dec | To Dance with a White Dog | Terry Kay | |
| 1995 | |||
| Jan | Pigs in Heaven | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| Feb | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | |
| Wild Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | ||
| Mar | The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty | |
| Apr | Before and After | Rosellen Brown | |
| May | Having Our Say | the Delaney sisters | |
| June | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | |
| July | Object Lessons | Anna Quindlen | |
| Sept | The Alienist | Caleb Carr | |
| Oct | Paddy Clarke, Ha, Ha, Ha | Roddy Doyle | |
| Nov | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
| Dec | Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | |
| 1996 | |||
| Jan | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |
| Feb | Shipping News | Annie Proulx | |
| Mar | To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
| Apr-May | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesan | |
| June | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | |
| July | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | |
| Sept | The Trees, The Fields, The Town | Conrad Richter | |
| Oct | The English Patient | Michael Oondaatje | |
| Nov | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | |
| Dec | Artist in a Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| 1997 | |||
| Jan | Travels With My Aunt | Graham Greene | |
| Feb-Mar | No Ordinary Time | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| Apr | Liars Club | Mary Karr | |
| May | Wild Swans | Jung Chang | |
| June | At Home in Mitford | Jan Karon | |
| Sept | Stones From the River | Ursula Hegi | |
| Oct. | One True Thing | Anna Quindlen | |
| Nov | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | |
| Dec | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent | Julia Alvarez | |
| 1998 | |||
| Jan | The Color of Water | James McBride | |
| Feb | A Civil Action | Jonathan Harr | |
| Mar | House of Splendid Isolation | Edna O'Brien | |
| Apr | The Bookshop | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| May | Undaunted Courage | Stephen Ambrose | |
| June | Heat Wave | Penelope Lively | |
| July | Ada | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| Sept | A Bend in the River | V.S. Naipaul | |
| Oct | Ceremony | L. Silvco | |
| Nov | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | |
| 1999 | |||
| Jan | Ship of Fools | Katherine Anne Porter | |
| Feb | The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger | |
| Mar 4 | Slaves in the Family | Edward Ball | |
| Mar 25 | Thrones,Dominations | Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh | |
| Apr | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | |
| May | The Reader | B. Schlink | |
| June | The Spectator Bird | Wallace Stegner | |
| July | Tender at the Bone | Ruth Reichl | |
| Sept | The Endurance | Caroline Alexander | |
| Nov | How Proust Can Change Your Life | Alain de Botton | |
| Dec | The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | |
| 2000 | |||
| Jan | The Professor and the Madman: The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester | |
| Feb | The God of Small Things | A. Roy | |
| Mar | The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells | |
| Apr | The Weight of Water | Anita Shreve | |
| May | The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron | |
| June | Hometown | Tracy Kidder | |
| July | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| Sept | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |
| Oct | Failure Is Impossible | Lynne Scherer | |
| Nov | While I Was Gone | Sue Miller | |
| Dec | Walkin' the Dog | Walter Mosely | |
| 2001 | |||
| Jan | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | ||
| Feb | Corelli's Mandolin | John De Biernieres | |
| Mar | A Clearing in the Distance | Witold Rybczynski | |
| Apr | Things Fall Apart | ||
