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Books Read by LIRA Book Discussion Group Books Read by LIRA Book Discussion Group the Fall 1999. Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balkanian. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott. The Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks. Damascus Gate by Robert Stone. Spring 2000. Home Town by Tracy Kidder. The Satanic Verses by Salmon Rushdie. My Home is Far Away by Dawn Powell. Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. Fall 2000. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang. The Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. Spring 2001. The Black Rose by Tananarive Due. An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us by James Carroll. The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey. I’d Hate Myself in the Morning by Ring Lardner, Jr. Fall 2001. Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian . In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Spring 2002. Several books by V.S. Naipaul (readers' choices). The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas Friedman. Typical American by Gish Jeri. John Adams by David McCullough . A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten by Julie Winch. Native Son by Richard Wright. · Fall 2002. Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips. Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir by lain Levison. Atonement by Ian McEwan . Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam. Spring 2003. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro. What Went Wrong! by Bernard Lewis. American Ground: The Unbuilding of the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche The Physician by Noah Gordon Fall 2003. Personal History by Katharine Graham. A Declaration of Interdependence: Why American Should Join the World by Will Hutton. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. Winter 2004. The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros . I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou . Backstory: Inside the Business of News by Ken Auletta. The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac. Fall 2004. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. What's the Hatter with Kansas! by Thomas Frank. War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges. Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall High Tide by Mark Lynas. Winter 2005. The Late George Apley by John T. Marquand. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. In America by Susan Sontag. Spring 2005. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. Fall 2005. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry . Bread and Roses: Hills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson. The Known World by Edward P. Jones. Winter/Spring 2006. God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis. The Affluent Society by John Galbraith. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by Richard Parker. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collapse by Jared Diamond. Fall 2006. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo Night by Elie Wiesel. Sacco and Vanzetti, the Anarchist Background by Paul Avrich. To Kill a Hocking Bird by Harper Lee. Winter/Spring 2007. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Persuasion by Jane Austen. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. March by Geraldine Brooks. The Looming Tower. Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/1I by Lawrence Wright. Fall 2007. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal by David McCullough. Snow by Orhan Panuk. The Count of Monte Cristo by Allexandre Dumas. Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen. Winter/Spring 2008. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Einstein, His Lile and Times by Walter Isaacson. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean ·war by David Halberstam. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. 2009. January-August unavailable. The Great Bridge by David McCullough. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer. The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan. 2010. January - April unavailable. The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey. Last of the Mohicans by James F. Cooper. The Big Burn by Timothy Egan. The Madonnas of Leningrad by Deborah Dean. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles. 2011. Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett. Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. South of Broad by Pat Conroy. Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver American Lion, Biography of Andrew Jackson by Jon Meacham. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped out Nation by Cokie Roberts. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. 2012. The Social Animal by David Brooks. The World to Come by Dana Horn. Tinkers by Paul Harding. The Warmth of Other Suns: America' s Great Migration by I. Wilkerson. The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. June book unavailable. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. The Right Hand Shore by Christopher Tilgham. Destiny of the Republic by Diane Millard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. 2013 Citizens of London: Americans who stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olsen. Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe by Charles Dickens. Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. Making our Democracy Work: A Judge's View by Stephen Breyer. Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage by Jeffrey Frank. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayer. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2014. The Round House by Louise Erdrich. Polio: An American Story by David Oshimsky. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. A Road Trip by Dan Baum. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahui . The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and theGolden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin. October and November books unavailable. Cascade by Maryanne O'Hara. 2015. A Natural Woman by Carol King. Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson. by Jump Lahiri. Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie. The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan. Sand Castle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. Truman by David McCullough. The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. 2016. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. Emma by Jane Austin. Dead Wake by Erick Larson. Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright. The Red Tent by Anita Diament. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferante. 2017. We Are Market Basket by Danie Korschun and Grant Welker. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante. Our Kids by Robert Putnam. Richard Nixon - The Life by John A. Farrell. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh. Hidden Figures: the American Dream and Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped with the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly . The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. 2018. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles . Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish. How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. The Cloister by James Carroll. 2019 American Pastoral by Philip Roth. The Soul of America: The battle for our Better Angels by Jon Meacham. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. The Island by Victoria Hislop. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover. .
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