Our Five Year List:
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Peacegiver by James Ferrell
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
*1776 by David McCullough
A Mormon Mother by Annie Clark
*Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Wedding Dress by Carrie Young
Left to Tell Immaculee Ilibagiza
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
*Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*Miriam's Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmeal Beah
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creed
*Anna Karinena by Leo Tolsky
Persnal History by Katharine Graham
*The Color of Water by James McBride
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Worst Hard Time
The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs
The Two Old Women-An Alaskan Legend by V. Wells
*The Guernsey & Potatoe Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
*The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
My Life in France by Julie Child
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frank
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Distant Land of My Fathers by Bo Caldwell or Chinese Cinerella and Falling Leaves by Aldeline
*The Help by Kathryn Stockett
~Halloween Books-Scary book of choice. Some favorites included *Dracula, Frankenstein, Shorts Stories by Edgar Allen Poe, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
A Reporter’s Life by Walter Cronkite
The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis
4 comments:
Looks like some great ideas! Thanks!
I was sad to miss the big birthday party, but I love being in the book club. Thanks for organizing it.
How fun! It makes me want to fly out to NM once a month, you've read such a great list of books.
we have some of the same favorites!
if you haven't already... try "The Forgotten Garden" i just finished reading it and thought it was pretty clever.
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