Monday, August 20, 2007

More Ideas for Book Selections

As you can see, we did not make enough choices for the entire year. We will do that after the discussion of The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy on September 20. Here are the suggestions so far:
THE CITY BELOW by James Carroll
THE MANGROVE COAST by Randy Wainwright
MY LOSING SEASON by Pat Conroy
CONSPIRACY OF PAPER by David Liss
POET by Michael Connelly
THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS by Wayne Johnston
A MAN IN FULL by Tom WolfeSARATOGA by Richard Ketchum
1421 by Gavin Menzies
THE SPARROW by Mary Russell
SEIZE THE DAY by Saul Bellow
EMPIRE FALLS by Richard Russo
THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS by David McCullough
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME by Mark Haddon
THE POET AND THE MURDERER by Simon Worrall
BENEDICT ARNOLD by Willard Randall
THE STONE CARVERS by Jane Urquhart
EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES by Lynne Truss
TALK TO THE HAND byLynne Truss
SHALIMAR THE CLOWN by Salman Rushdie
NICKEL AND DIMED by Barbara Ebrenreich
BIAS by Bernard Goldberg
THEODORE REX by Edmund Morris
SAILING THE WINE-DARK SEA by Thomas Cahill
KILLING OF BONNIE GARLAND by Willard Gaylin
1776 by David McCullough
A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest Gaines
A GATHERING OF OLD MEN by Ernest Gaines
ABSOLUTELY AMERICAN by David Lipsky
KRAKATOA- THE DAY THE WORLD EXPLODED by Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler
Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler
Child of My heart by Alice McDermott
Educating Alice by Alic Steinbech
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Middlessex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
When the Emperor was Divineby Julie Otsuka
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
In America by Susan Sontag
Absolutely American by David Lipsky
Outlander by Diane Gabaldon
The Planets by Dava Soba (I think this is the right one.)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Apostle by John Pollock
The Great Lion of God by Taylor Caldwell
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

If I left out anyone's suggestions, I am truly sorry. I was writing as fast as I could.

We still seemed to think we needed more suggestions from which to choose, so bring more picks to the next meeting!