Titles that Racine Public Library Afternoon Book Club Has Read 1999-2000
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris Miss Lulu Bett: Birth by Zona Gales How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
2000-2001
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Bean TRees by Barbara Kingsolver A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay Angle of Repose by Wallace Earle Stegner Death Comes for the Archbishop by Will Cather Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
2001-2002
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Memories of the Great and the Good by Alistar Cooke The End of the Affair by Graham Greene Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Titles that Racine Public Library Afternoon Book Club Has Read 2002-2003
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Days of Awe by Achy Obejas Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
2003-2004
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin Bel Canto by Ann Patchett American Heaven by Maxine Chernoff The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie Empire Falls by Richard Russo Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson Atonement by Ian McEwan Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
2004-2005
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa So Big by Edna Ferber Alice’s Tulips by Sandra Dallas Housewrights by Art Corrivau Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
Titles that Racine Public Library Afternoon Book Club Has Read 2005-2006
East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason Native Son by Richard Wright The Awakening by Kate Chopin Time Between Trains by Anthony Bukoski The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
2006-2007
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Kindred by Octavia E. Butler The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait by Glenway Wescott
Summer 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Titles that Racine Public Library Afternoon Book Club Has Read 2007-2008
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham The Hamilton Case by Michelle De Krester Palace Walk by Najib Mahfuz The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak Oxygen by Andrew Miller On Beauty by Zadie Smith Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Summer 2008
Dinner at the Restaurant by Anne Tyler Plainsong by Kent Haruf Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2008-2009
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo Hullabaloo in the Guave Orchard by Kiran Desai A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rolvaag Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Summer 2009
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Delta Weeding by Eudora Welty
Titles that Racine Public Library Afternoon Book Club Has Read 2009-2010
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Dream House by Valerie Laken North River by Pete Hamill The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean Esther’s Inheritance by Sandor Marai The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates All Saints by Liam Callanan Driftless by David Rhodes Light in August by William Faulkner
Summer 2010
Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
2010-2011
Coal Run by Tawin O’Dell The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander The Last of the Just by Andre` Schwarz-Bart Double Vision by Pat Barker The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah Pretty Birds by Scott Simon The Line by Olga Grushin Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Summer 2011
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Titles that Racine Public Library Afternoon Book Club Has Read 2011-2012
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates October Suite by Maxine Clair The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Summer 2012
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2012-2013
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb Swamlandia! by Karen Russell Between two Rivers by Nicholas Rinaldi
Summer 2013
Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Titles that Racine Public Library Afternoon Book Club Has Read 2013-2014
Broken Irish by Edward J. Delaney All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee City of Refuge by Tom Piazza Banishing Verona by Margot Livesey Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Summer 2014
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather The Whistling Season by Ivan Doing The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.