What Our Library Groups Are Reading

One of my avid reading group participants asked me if I had kept a list of our Adult Book Club selections for 2011.  I hadn't.  But I thought it was a great idea to show the variety of titles our readers were reading and discussing so enthusiastically each month at the library.  This is why I decided to include in the list not only what we read for our Adult Book Club, but also our Short & Sweets (short story discussion group), Great Reads, and One Community, One Book.

Here is the collected list for 2011:

Adult Book Club

January 2011:  The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell (NF)

February 2011:  The Last Chinese Chef, by Nicole Mones (F)

March 2011:  Down the Nile:  Alone In a Fisherman’s Skiff, by Rosemary Mahoney (NF)

April 2011:  Bloodroot, by Amy Greene (F)

May 2011:  Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa, by R.A. Scotti (NF)
June 2011:  The Piano Turner, by Daniel Phillippe Mason (F)

July 2011:  The Gerbil Farmer’s Daughter, by Holly Robinson (NF)

August 2011:  The Heights, by Peter Hedges (F)

September 2011:  The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (NF)

October 2011:  The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield (F)

November 2011:  Growing Up Amish: A Memoir, by Ira Wagler (NF)

December 2011:  Faith, by Jennifer Haigh (F)

Short & Sweets

January 2011:  “White Horse,” by Margaret Atwood

February 2011:  “Chip Off the Old Block,” by Wallace Stegner

March 2011:  “The Real Thing,” by Henry James

April 2011:  “Araby,” & “Eveline,” by James Joyce

May 2011:  “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson

June 2011:  “That Evening Sun Go Down,” by William Faulkner

July 2011:  “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemmingway

August 2011:  “Looking for Mr. Green,” by Saul Bellow

September 2011:  “The Elephant Vanishes,” by Haruki Murakami

October 2011:  “The Masque of the Red Death” & “The Cask of Amontillado,” by E. A. Poe

November 2011:  “When We Rise,” Shann Ray

December 2011:  “Christmas Is A Sad Season for the Poor,” by John Cheever

Great Reads

January 2011:  Creative Non-Fiction

February 2011:  Food Writing

March 2011:  The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

April 2011:  The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

May 2011:  American Nature Writers

July 2011:  The Ballad of the Sad Café & The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers

September 2011:  My Antonia, by Willa Cather

October 2011:  The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

One Community, One Book

June 2011:  The Lotus Eaters, by Tatjana Soli