The St. Martin Women's Book Group selections for the coming months in 2010 are as follows:
- January 26 - "Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori, Book 2)" by Lian Heam
- February 23 - "A Gathering Light" or "A Northern Light" by Jennifer Donnelly
- March 23 – “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
- April 27 – “Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown
- May 25 – “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel” by David Wroblewski
- June 22 – “Lacuna: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver
- July 27 – “The Kalahari Typing School for Men” by Alexander McCall Smith
- August 24 - “Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori, book 3)” by Lian Hearn
The Women's Book Group read and discussed these books in 2009:
- January 27 – “Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book 1)” by Lian Hearn
- February 24 - "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- March 24 - "Peony in Love: A Novel" by Lisa See
- April 28 - "Not a Genuine Black Man: My Life as an Outsider" by Brian Copeland
- May 26 - "The Shack" by William P. Young
- June 23 - "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail" by Bill Bryson
- July 28 - "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner
- August 25 - "Morality for Beautiful Girls" by Alexander McCall Smith
- September 22 - "The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel" by Diane Setterfield
- October 27 - "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography" by Kathleen Norris
- November 24 - "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester
These are the books that the Women's Book Group read in 2008:
- January 22 - "Mary Called Magdelene" by Margaret George
- February 26 - "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khalid Hosseini
- March 25 - "Saving the World" by Julia Alvarez
- April 22 - "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
- May 27 - "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
- June 24 - "Saving Fish from Drowning" by Amy Tan
- July 22 - “Tears of the Giraffe” by Alexander McCall Smith
- August 26 – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death” by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- September 23 – “The Distant Land of my Fathers” by Bo Caldwell
- October 28 – “Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegne
- November 25 – “Animal, Vegetable, or Miracle” by Barbara Kingslover, Camille Kingslover, and Steven L. Hopp
Here are the books that the group read during 2007:
- January 23 – “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Tracy Chevalier
- February 27 – “The Last Templar” by Raymond Khoury
- March 27 – “And the Shofar Blew” by Francine Rivers
- April 24 – “The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered my Inner Italian” by Phil Doran
- May 22 – “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood” by Alexandra Fuller
- June 26 – “Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle
- July 24 - "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards
- August 28 - "The Other Boleyn Girl" - by Phillipa Gregory
- September 25 - "I Feel Bad about my Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman" by Nora Ephron
- October 23 - "Measure of a Man" by Sydney Portier
- November 27 - "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson
and David Oliver Relin
The Women's Book Group read these books in 2006:
- January 24 - "Life on Two Levels: An Autobiography" by Josephine Whitney Duveneck
- February 28 - “A Skeleton in God’s Closet” by Paul Maier.
- March 28 - "When the Emperor was Divine" by Julie Otsuka AND
March 28 - "The Souvenir" by Louise Steinman - April 25 – “Marley & Me : Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog” by John Grogan
- May 23 – “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman
- June 27 – “The Mermaid Chair” by Sue Monk Kidd
- July 25 – “The Glass Castle: a Memoir” by Jeannette Walls
- August 22 - “Jesus Before Christianity” by Albert Nolan.
- September 26 - “Garlic and Sapphires: the Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise” by Ruth Reichl.
- October 24 – “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith” by Anne Lamott
- November 28 – “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson
Happy reading!
Linda
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