Peace Dale Library Book Discussion Group
Meets 1st Tuesday of every month, 7 PM, all year
2011
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
Pompeii by Robert Harris
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
2010
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
Living Witness by Jane Haddam
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
2009
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
The March by E. L. Doctorow
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
2008
Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Winter of our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Old American by Ernest Hebert
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Peace Like a River by Lief Enger
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
North River by Pete Hamill
Deafening by Frances Itani
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
2007
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Waiting by Ha Jin
My Life in France by Julia Child
An American Summer by Frank Deford
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Widow’s War by Sally Gunning
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
2006
Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Hole in the Universe by Mary McGarry Morris
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2005
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Soloist by Neil Salzman
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Outermost House by Henry Beston
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Black Betty by Walter Mosley
2004
The Orchard by Adele Crockett Robertson
Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz
Red Poppies by Alai
O Pioneers by Willa CatherThe Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Storyteller’s Daughter by Saira Shah
Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries
2003
Until I Have No Country by Michael Tougias
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
The Color of Water by James McBride
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Special Prisoner by Jim Lehrer
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
The Brass Dolphin by Joanna Trollope writing as Caroline Harvey
Embers by Sandor Marai
Roommates by Max Apple
2002
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
Selling the Lite of Heaven by Suzanne Strempek Shea
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd