Bookmarks Book Discussion Group (Robert Beverly Hale Library)
Meets the last Thursday of the month, 7:00 PM, from October through May (the May meeting is a potluck and begins at 6:30).
2009-2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Shack by William P. Young
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
2008-2009
Peony in Love by Lisa See
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf
2007-2008
Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Beast in the Garden by David Baron
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
2006-2007
Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
Emma by Jane Austen
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
2005-2006
Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
The Good Wife by Stewart O’Nan
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2004-2005
The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton
Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Border Passage by Leila Ahmed
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2003-2004
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Island Justice by Elizabeth Winthrop
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
2002-2003
Possession: a Romance by A.S. Byatt
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
While You Were Gone by Sue Miller
The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
2001-2002
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
2000-2001
Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1999-2000
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
The Color of Water by James McBride
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg
1998-1999
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Legacy (A Town Like Alice) by Nevil Shute
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells