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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
No alternate pitches |
| Max Epstein |
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump - Myles Taylor
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| Liz Fuller |
The Kingdoms of Savannah: A Novel - George Dawes Green
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
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| Charles Haskell |
Tom Lake: A Novel - Ann Patchett |
| Karen Howard |
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison - Ben Macintyre
Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ - Daniel Goleman |
| Dan Kegel |
The January 6 Report - Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning- Peter Hotez |
| Craig Lee |
The Sea of Tranquility: A Novel - Emily St. John Mandel
I've Been Thinking - Daniel C. Dennett |
| Kathryn Lee |
The Other Name: Septology I-II - Jon Fosse, Damion Searles
Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight - Andrew Leland |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
Loving and Leaving the Good Life - Ellen Nearing
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
Apples are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared - Christopher Robbins |
| Max Epstein |
The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber and David Wengrow |
| Liz Fuller |
The Widows of Malabar Hill (A Perveen Mistry Novel, Book 1) - Sujata Massey
The Night Watchman: A Novel - Louise Erdrich |
| Charles Haskell |
Dreaming in French - Alice Kaplan
Truman - David McCullum |
| Karen Howard |
Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
My Life So Far - Jane Fonda |
| Dan Kegel |
The Sea of Tranquility: A Novel - Emily St. John Mandel
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present - Ruth Ben Ghiat |
| Craig Lee |
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle - Sarah Krasnostein
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions - Marina Yaguello and Erik Butler |
| Kathryn Lee |
Last Noon - Ian McEwan
Lessons - Ian McEwan |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
The World: Life and Travel, 1950-2000 - Jan Morris |
| Max Epstein |
Bewilderment: A Novel- Richard Powers
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Liz Fuller |
The Widows of Malabar Hill: A Perveen Mistry Novel, Book 1 - Sujata Massey
Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy, Book 1) - Maria Nhambu |
| Charles Haskell |
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination - Sheera Frenkel and Cecelia Kang
Factfulness: 10 Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things are Better than You Think - Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling |
| Dan Kegel |
Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chaing
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess - Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, and Don Mosenfelder |
| Craig Lee |
Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
B is for Burglar: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery - Sue Grafton |
| Kathryn Lee |
The Well Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature - Sue Stuart-Smith
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses - Isabel Allende |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature - Jim Mason
Color: A Natural History of the Palette - Victoria Finlay |
| Max Epstein |
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow |
| Liz Fuller |
The Girl in the Garden - Melanie Wallace
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett |
| Charles Haskell |
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America - Nancy MacLean
The Murmur of Bees - Sofia Segovia & Simon Bruni |
| Christine Haskell |
Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik
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| Dan Kegel |
Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| Craig Lee |
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos - Dava Sobel |
| Kathryn Lee |
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town - Barbara Demick
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
A Spoonful of Sugar - Brenda Ashford
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran - Jennifer Klinec |
| Max Epstein |
1984 - George Orwell
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles |
| Liz Fuller |
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
Us Against You - Fredrick Backman |
| Charles Haskell |
The Long Black Veil - Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby - Cherise Wolas |
| Christine Haskell |
Pull Me Under - Kelly Luce
A House Among the Trees - Julia Glass |
| Dan Kegel |
The Cuckoo's Calling - Roberth Galbraith
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood |
| Craig Lee |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
The 39 Steps - John Buchan |
| Kathryn Lee |
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted - Robert Hillman |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels Book Two - Elena Ferrante
Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
The Townsman - John Sedges (Pearl S. Buck) |
| Max Epstein |
War Light: A Novel - Michael Ondaatje
Death and the Maiden - Ariel Dorfman |
| Liz Fuller |
Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America - Nancy MacLean |
| Charles Haskell |
In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi
Neapolitan Novels (all four books) - Elena Ferrante |
| Christine Haskell |
The President is Missing: A Novel - James Patterson and Bill Clinton
Saint Maizie: A Novel - Jami Attenberg
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| Dan Kegel |
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey - Rinker Buck
Lenin's Roller Coaster (A Jack McColl Novel) - David Downing
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin |
| Craig Lee |
Circe - Madeline Miller
Semiosis: A Novel - Sue Burke |
| Kathryn Lee |
Neapolitan Chronicles - Anna Maria Ortese
Tango Lessons: A Memoir - Meghan Flaherty |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Marjorie Annapav |
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J. D. Vance |
| Judy Carr |
Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York - Francis Spufford
Mr. Sermon - R. F. Delderfield
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| Max Epstein |
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng |
| Liz Fuller |
A Thousand Acres: A Novel - Jane Smiley
Telex from Cuba - Rachel Kushner
The Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing - Mira Jacob |
| Charles Haskell |
The Nest - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
A House Among the Trees - Julia Glass |
| Christine Haskell |
The Lying Game - Ruth Ware
The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War - Jacqueline Winspear
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| Dan Kegel |
The Martian - Andy Weir
Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog) - Jerome K. Jerome |
| Craig Lee |
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Gilgamesh - Stephen Mitchell |
| Kathryn Lee |
Persuasion - Jane Austen
In Other Words - Jhumpa Lahiri |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Marjorie Annapav |
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt |
| Judy Carr |
Heat Wave: A Novel - Penelope Lively |
| Max Epstein |
Dreamers of the Day: A Novel - Mary Doria Russell
The Glass Palace: A Novel- Amitav Ghosh |
| Liz Fuller |
Go Set a Watchman: A Novel - Harper Lee
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair |
| Charles Haskell |
In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi
Odes - Sharon Olds |
| Christine Haskell |
The Underground Railroad: A Novel - Colson Whitehead
NutShell: A Novel- Ian McEwen |
| Dan Kegel |
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel |
| Craig Lee |
The 39 Steps - John Buchan
M is for Malice - Sue Grafton |
| Kathryn Lee |
Queen Sugar - Natalie Basile
You Can't Get Lost in Capetown - Zoe Wicomb |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Marjorie Annapav |
The Dinner - Herman Koch |
| Judy Carr |
Caleb's Crossing: A Novel - Geraldine Brooks
Vatican Waltz - Roland Merullo
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| Max Epstein |
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul |
| Liz Fuller |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Dam Nation: How Water Shaped the West and Will Determine Its Future - Stephen Grace |
| Charles Haskell |
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel - Anthony Doerr
The Possibilities - Kaui Hart Hemmings |
| Christine Haskell |
A Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine |
| Dan Kegel |
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Seamus Heaney
Lysistrata - Aristophanes |
| Craig Lee |
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki - Haruki Murakami
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines - Janna Levin |
| Kathryn Lee |
All Passion Spent - Vita Sackville-West
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan |
| JoAn Peters |
Tinkers - Paul Harding |
| Tom Peters |
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
Mutant Message Down Under - Marlo Morgan
Test of Courage: The Michel Thomas Story - Christopher Robbins |
| Max Epstein |
The Talk Funny Girl - Roland Merullo
Small Island - Andrea Levy |
| Liz Fuller |
The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson |
| Charles Haskell |
The Cleft - Doris Lessing
And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini |
| Christine Haskell |
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
The Dinner - Herman Koch |
| Dan Kegel |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks |
| Craig Lee |
Gilgamesh: A New English Version - Stephen Mitchell
Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter |
| Kathryn Lee |
The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age - Richard Louv
Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy - John Wood |
| Jo An Peters |
Stockholm Octavo - Karen Englemann |
| Tom Peters |
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Arabian Nights - Muhshin Mahdi and Husain Haddawy |
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| Judy Carr |
Small Island - AndreaLevy
A Long Fatal Love Chase - Louisa May Alcott
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| Max Epstein |
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler |
| Liz Fuller |
A Friend of the Family - Lauren Grodstein
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain |
| Charles Haskell |
Augotiography of Red - Anne Carson
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence - Susie Linfield |
| Christine Haskell |
A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner |
| Dan Kegel |
If He Hollers, Let Him Go - Chester Himes
The Maid's Version - Daniel Woodrell |
| Craig Lee |
The Next Wife - Lubomir F. Bic
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
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| Kathryn Lee |
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
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| Judy Carr |
Dreamers of the Day - Mary Doria Russell
Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow |
| Max Epstein |
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow |
| Liz Fuller |
The Republican Noise Machine: Right Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy - David Brock
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen |
| Charles Haskell |
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer |
| Christine Haskell |
Sisters: A Novel - Nancy Jensen
Shed Your Stuff, Change Your Life: A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck - Julie Morgenstern |
| Dan Kegel |
Night Soldiers - Alan Furst
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell |
| Craig Lee |
Bruneleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture - Ross King
The Yips - Nicola Barker
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| Kathryn Lee |
The Bougeois Gentleman - Moliere
The Cat/Gigi - Collette
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes |
| Lee Voegtlen |
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Judy Carr |
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The House at Riverton - Kate Martin
The China Lover - Ian Buruma |
| Max Epstein |
Mr. Rosenbloom Dreams in English - Natasha Solomons
"Dictionary Delight" (exercise in which participants provide 20-25 new words, write story using words) |
| Liz Fuller |
The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Death and Life of the Great American School System - Diane Ravitch |
| Charles Haskell |
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Wench - Dolen Perkins Valdez |
| Christine Haskell |
Little Bee: A Novel - Chris Cleve
Innocent - Scott Turow
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| Cindy Hewitt |
Conquest of the Useless - Werner Herzog
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Room: A Novel - Emma Donoghue |
| Dan Kegel |
A Burnt Out Case - Graham Greene |
| Craig Lee |
Gilgamesh - Stephen Mitchell
The Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe |
| Kathryn Lee |
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Bird Cloud: A Memoir - Annie Proulx |
| Lee Voegtlen |
Emma - Jane Austen
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Christine Haskell |
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Little Bee - Chris Cleave |
| Charles Haskell |
The Shadow Catcher - Maryanne Wiggins
That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo |
| Don & Cindy Hewitt |
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey
Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
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| Craig Lee |
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The 39 Steps - John Buchan |
| Dan Kegel |
The Republican Noise Machine - David Brock
Storms of My Grandchildren - Dr. James Hansen |
| Liz Fuller |
Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr
Distant Land of My Father - Bo Caldwell |
| Lee Voegtlen |
In the Beauty of the Lilies - John Updike
Ruined by Reading - Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
| Kathryn Lee |
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Auto-da-Fe- Elias Canetti |
| Judy Carr |
March - Geraldine Brooks
The Friendly Young Ladies - Mary Renault |
| Max Epstein |
The Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Christine Haskell |
Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski |
| Charles Haskell |
Little Scarlet - Walter Mosley
Silks - Dick Francis |
| Judy Carr |
The Nutmeg Tree - Margery Sharp
The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig |
| Liz Fuller |
Garbageland: On the Secret Trail of Trash - Elizabeth Royte
The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi |
| Dan Kegel |
The Post Birthday World - Lionel Shriver
The Battle for God - Karen Armstrong |
| Lee Voegtlen |
No alternates pitched |
| Kathryn Kramer Lee |
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Georges Simenon
Onitsha - Jean Marie Le Clezio |
| Craig Lee |
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote |
| Don Hewitt |
White Jazz - James Ellroy
City of Thieves - David Benioff
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| Cindy Hewitt |
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire |
| Max Epstein |
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorsten Veblen
The Soloist - Steve Lopez |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Christine Haskell |
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini |
| Charles Haskell | The Distant Land of My Father - Bo Caldwell
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp |
| Judy Carr | Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory |
| Liz Fuller | A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman |
| Dan Kegel | The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Daniel C. Dennett |
| Lee Voegtlen |
Mara and Dann: An Adventure - Doris Lessing
Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel - Doris Lessing |
| Kathryn Kramer Lee |
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Wrong Side of Paris - Honore de Balzac |
| Craig Lee |
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner |
| Don Hewitt |
The Yiddish Policeman's Union: A Novel - Michael Chabon |
| Cindy Hewitt |
The Namesake: A Novel - Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Max Epstein | Exit Ghost - Philip Roth |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Christine Haskell |
Until
I Find You - John
Irving
The
Long Emergency - James
Howard Kunstler |
| Charles Haskell |
Acts
of Faith - Philip Caputo
Terrorist - John Updike |
| Judy Carr |
The
Glass Lake -
Maeve Binchy
Cloud
Mountain - Aimee Liu |
| Max Epstein |
The
Translation of Dr. Apelle's: A Love Story -
David Treuer |
| Craig Lee |
Arabian
Nights - Hussain Hadawy &
Mushin Mahdi
Eats,
Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss |
| Liz Fuller |
Atlas
Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The
Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler |
| Dan Kegel |
The
Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)-
Philip Pullman
Feed
- M.T. Anderson |
| Kathryn Kramer Lee |
The
Shadow of the Wind -
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The
Three Musketeers - Alexandre
Dumas (translation by Richard Pevear) |
| Don Hewitt |
Flow
My Tears, the Policeman Said -
Philip K. Dick
Saturday - Ian McEwan |
| Cindy Davis Hewitt |
Slaughterhouse
Five -
Kurt Vonnegut
White
Noise - Don DeLillo |
| Lee Voegtlen |
Return
of the Native - Thomas Hardy
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren |
| Katie Malich |
Saturday-
Ian McEwan
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Christine Haskell |
Empire
Falls - Richard Russo
Little
Scarlet - Walter Moseley |
| Charles Haskell |
Half
a Life
- V. S. Naipaul
The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Mark Haddon |
| Judy Carr |
Nights
of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchy
A
Respectable Trade - Philippa Gregory |
| Max Epstein |
Mazel
- Rebecca Goldstein |
| Craig Lee |
The
Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Alice,
Let's Eat - Calvin Trillin |
| Liz Fuller |
The
Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
- Rudolph
Fisher
A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty
Smith |
| Dan Kegel |
The
Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)-
Philip Pullman
Ender's
Game - Orson Scott Card |
| Kathryn Kramer Lee |
The
Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall
Smith
The
Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana-
Umberto Eco
The
Debt to Pleasure: A Novel - John
Lanchester |
| Don Hewitt |
Lost
Light - Michael Connelly
The
Tortilla Curtain - T. C. Boyle
Sideways
- Rex Pickett |
| Cindy Davis Hewitt |
Ship
of Gold - Gary Kinder
The
Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)- Philip Pullman |
| Lee Voegtlen |
Cousin
Bette - Honore de Balzac |
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| MEMBER |
BOOKS |
| Christine Haskell |
Aloft
- Chang-rae Lee
Empire
Falls - Richard Russo |
| Charles Haskell |
Half
a Life
- V. S. Naipaul
Empire
Falls - Richard Russo
The
Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris & Goodbye
to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
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| Judy Carr |
Absolute
Truths - Susan Howatch
Mystical
Paths - Susan Howatch |
| Max Epstein |
Absolute
Friends - John le Carre |
| Craig Lee |
Around
the World in 80 Days - Jules
Verne
Around
the World Again in 80 Days -
Jean Cocteau |
| Liz Fuller |
Ask
the Dust - John Fante
East
of Eden - John Steinbeck |
| Dan Kegel |
The
Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
No
Logo - Naomi Klein |
| Kathryn Kramer Lee |
Youth
- J. M. Coetzee
Pere
Goriot - Honore De Balzac |
| Don Hewitt |
How
to be Good - Nick Hornby
White
Noise - Don DeLillo |
| Cindy Davis Hewitt |
Waiting
- Ha Jin
The
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold |
| Lee Voegtlen |
Selected
Stories - Alfonse Daudet
Tartuffe
(and one other play) - Moliere
Delta
Wedding - Eudora Welty |
| Dean Voegtlen |
Stories
or Books by Sue McCauley
Far
from the Madding Crowd - Thomas
Hardy |
