Augustana Book Club History and Selections 2001-present From the church bulletins in Oct. 2001: "Book Club coming soon. . . Are YOU interested?" Meeting set for 7 pm Oct. 23 in the church library "The first meeting will be a time to plan our reading and meeting places." Contact Joanne Mecklem or Amy Plumb Book Author 2001 Oct. FIRST MEETING Nov. The Samurai's Garden Gail Tsukiyama Dec. Martin Luther's Christmas Book Martin Luther 2002 Jan. Dakota Kathleen Norris Feb. Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie March The Bridge Doug Marlett April Teaching a Stone to Talk Annie Dillard May NO MEETING June To Know a Woman Amos Oz July NO MEETING Aug. "Book Potluck"--Share a summertime read Sept. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Oct. Bel Canto Ann Patchett Nov. The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold Father Melancholy's Daughter @ Cooke Dec. Gail Godwin First book club hosted at a home and not church library 2003 A Lesson Before Dying @ Wackers (Everybody Reads) Jan. We have read each MultCo Library Everybody Reads selection since Ernest Gaines the program began in Winter 2003 A Fine Balance @ Van Winkles Feb. In the bulletin: "Over the next months the group will be meeting in homes Rohinton Mistry and enjoying potluck with a book-inspired menu." March Bless Me, Ultima @ Kindschuhs Rudolfo Anaya Choice of books @ Ranks: The Clash of Civilizations & the Remaking of the World Order Samuel Huntington Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Jared Diamond April The Wealth of Nations David Landers Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress ed.Lawrence Harrison,Samuel Huntington Islam: An Introduction for Christians ed.Paul V. Martinson Islam: A Short History Karen Armstrong May The Power of One @ Ingebretson Bryce Courtenay June Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress @ Mecklems Dai Sijie July Breathing Lessons @ Plumb Anne Tyler Aug. Crossing the River @ Wackers Caryl Phillips Book Author Sept. Cane River @ Goebel/Green Lalita Tademy Oct. Any book by Barry Lopez @ Surratt/Hanset Barry Lopez Nov. John Adams @ Cooke David McCullough Dec. A Christmas Carol @ Kindschuhs Charles Dickens 2004 Jan. East of Eden John Steinbeck Feb. Fahrenheit 451 (Everybody Reads) Ray Bradbury March The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman April Coyote Waits Tony Hillerman May Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer June The Stand Stephen King July Harry and Ike Steve Neal Aug. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Sept. Heart/Earth or This House of Sky Ivan Doig Oct. Against All Enemies Wes Clarke Nov. Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times Bill Moyers Dec. House of Spirits @ Mecklems Isabelle Allende 2005 Jan. The Life of Pi Yann Martel Feb. The House on Mango Street (Everybody Reads) Sandra Cisneros La Place de la Concorde Suisse or Ransom of Russian Art March John McPhee or Heirs of General Practice or Coming into the Country April Undaunted Courage: Lewis and Clark Stephen Ambrose May The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare June The Kite Runner (becomes Everybody Reads selection for 2006) Khaled Hosseini July Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich Aug. Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor Sept. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Oct. The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad Losing Moses on the Freeway: Nov. Chris Hedges The 10 Commandments in America Dec. Christmas Ships @ Mecklems:First book club at Mecklems for Christmas Ships, now an annual tradition 2006 Jan. The Tipping Poiint Malcolm Gladwell Feb. Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey March The Devil in the White City Erik Larson April A Million Little Pieces James Frey May Life Together Dietrich Bonhoeffer June The Rapture Exposed Barbara Rossing July In Cold Blood Truman Capote Aug. Our Endangered Values Jimmy Carter Sept. The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Oct. The Bush Doctor's Daughter (unpublished manuscript by Portland author) Diane Saunders Nov. Running with Scissors Aug.en Burroughs Dec. 2nd Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems 2007 Book Author Jan. March Geraldine Brooks Feb. The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer March Midnight at the Dragon Café (Everybody Reads) Judy Fong Bates April River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey Candice Millard May No god but God Reza Azlan June The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion July The Known World Edward P. Jones Aug. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Sept. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Oct. The Birth of Venus Sarah Dumant Nov. Water for Elephants Sarah Gruen Dec. 3rd Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems 2008 Jan. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Feb. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Everybody Reads) Ishmael Beah March Heaven in Stone and Glass Robert Barron April Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain May The Shack William P. Young June Catfish and Mandela Andrew X. Pham July The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Aug. The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett Sept. The Innocent Man John Grisham Oct. The Zookeeper's Wife Diane Ackerman Nov. Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson Dec. 4th Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems 2009 Jan. The Spiral Staircase Karen Armstrong Stubborn Twig: Feb. Lauren Kessler Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese-American Family March Dreams of My Father Barack Obama April Loving Frank Nancy Horan May The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan The Defining Moment: June Jonathan Alter FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope July The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon Aug. NO MEETING Sept. The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby Oct. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski Nov. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief Francis Collins Dec. 5th Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems 2010 Jan. Travel as a Political Act Rick Steves Feb. NO MEETING The Ghost Map:The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-- March and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Steven Johnson (Everybody Reads) Book Author April The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid May For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway June Reading the Bible Again for the First Time Marcus Borg July The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Taking Aim at the President: Aug. Geri Spieler The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford Sept. What's So Amazing about Grace? Philip Yancey Oct. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin Nov. Hearts of Horses Molly Gloss Dec. 6th Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems 2011 Jan. The Beekeeper's Apprentice Laurie King Feb. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Everybody Reads) Wes Moore March Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese Misquoting Jesus: April Bart Ehrman The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why May An Object of Beauty Steve Martin June The Rajneesh Chronicles Win McCormack July The Mind's Eye Oliver Sacks A Woman Alone: Aug. John A. Harrison Mona Bell, Sam Hill and the Mansion of Bonneville Rock Sept. The Help Kathryn Stockett Oct. Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage Hazel Rowley The Saint and the Sultan: Nov. Paul Moses The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace Dec. 7th Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems 2012 Jan. In the Garden of the Beasts Erik Larson Feb. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Everybody Reads) Heidi W. Durrow March The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot April Mink River Brian Doyle May Saving the World Julia Alvarez June Still Alice Lisa Genova July The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht Aug. The Family Mario Puzo The Presidents Club: Sept. Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity Oct. The Hobbitt J.R.R. Tolkien Nov. Uncommon Carriers John McPhee Dec. 8th Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems 2013 Jan. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts Neil White Feb. Ten Little Indians Sherman Alexie March Potluck & meeting in church Fireside Room to pick future books Book Author The Warmth of Other Suns: April Isabel Wilkerson The Epic Story of America's Great Migration May Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali June The Last Chinese Chef Nicole Mones July The Road Cormac McCarthy Aug. Share a book you have enjoyed in the past 12 months Sept. Read a book from the Augustana library and share it Oct. Nov. Dec. 9th Annual Christmas Ships @ Mecklems