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Worth Public Library District Reading Roundtable Past Selections WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT READING ROUNDTABLE PAST SELECTIONS 1998 She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf The Bear Went Over the Mountains by William Kotzwinle Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook Having Our Say by The Delaney Sisters Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon Snow in August by Pete Hamill The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer 1999 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Room With a View by E.M. Forster Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Travels With Charlie by John Steinbeck Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans 2000 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Finbar’s Hotel edited by Dermot Bolger The Voyage by Philip Caputo The Tale Tell Heart by Edgar Alan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Alan Poe A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende Halfway Heaven by Melanie Thernstrom Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter 2001 Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald East of the Mountains by David Gutterson 2001 by Arthur C. Clark Disobedience by Jane Hamilton The Borne Identity by Robert Ludlum The Daybreakers by Louis L’Amour Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers White-Out by James Vance Marshall The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT READING ROUNDTABLE PAST SELECTIONS 2002 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk The Commitments by Roddy Doyle Made in America by Bill Bryson The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard A Dog.s Life by Peter Mayle The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding Night by Elie Wiesel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz 2003 Dante by R.W.B. Lewis Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Any Book About Lewis & Clark One For The Money by Janet Evanovich The Naked Detective by Laurence Shames Any Short Story Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Any Book About the History of Flight A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 2004 Cold by John Smolens Secret Father by James Carroll Secret Pilgrim by John LeCarre QB VII by Leon Uris Life of Pi by Yann Martel Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars by Lauralee Summer Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne Perfume by Patrick Suskind Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede Skipping Christmas by John Grisham 2005 The Interpreter by Suzanne Glass A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage by Mark Twain Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson A Lady, First by Letitia Baldridge The Lost German Slave Girl by John bailey The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich Small Island by Andrea Levy Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer Pompeii by Robert Harris WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT READING ROUNDTABLE PAST SELECTIONS 2006 Truth & Consequences by Alison Lurie Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick March by Geraldine Brooks The Lady & the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier Girls Guide to Hunting & Fishing by Melissa Bank The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Barrow’s Boys by Fergus Fleming He Fountainhead by Ayn Rand My Life in France by Julia Child 2007 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Manhunt by James Swanson My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Nathaniel’s Nutmeg by Giles Milton The Forger by Paul Watkins Jane Austin by Carol Shields I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark Mockingbird by Charles Shields Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland Opening Skinner’s Box by Lauren Slater 2008 The Art Thief by Noah Charney The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies Complications by Atul Gawande The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson The Knitting Circle by Anne Hood The Plan of Chicago by Carl S. Smith City of Thieves by David Benioff Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee 2009 Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani Provenance by Laney Salisbury The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT READING ROUNDTABLE PAST SELECTIONS 2010 Audition by Barbara Walters Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Gifts of War by Mackenzie Ford The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich Imperium by Robert Harris The Accidental Sleuth by Helen Macie Osterman The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin Double Indemnity by James M. Cain From a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 2011 Muffins and Mayhem by Suzanne Beecher Parrot & Olivier In America by Peter Carey Fur, fortune and Empire by Eric Jay Dolan Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath Waiting For Snow In August by Carlos Eire Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk Signing Their Lives Away by Denise Kiernan The Smell of the Night by Andrea Camilleri The Napoleon of Crime by Ben Macintyre Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck 2012 Circles by James Burke The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett The True Story of Hansel & Gretel by Louise Murphy Twins by Allen Shawn The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz My Lucky Life by Dick Van Dyke Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks On Hallowed Ground by Robert Poole Too Many Clients by David J. Walker Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT READING ROUNDTABLE PAST SELECTIONS 2013 Silent Night by Stanley Weintraub Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Murder On the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones You Don’t Sweat Much For a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark The Book Thief by Markus Zusak American Nations by Colin Woodard Dark Summer by Iris Johansen Here Is Where by Andrew Carroll Crocodile On the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters 2014 The Age of Edison by Ernest Freeberg The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt Sidney Chambers & the Shadow of Death by James Runcie You Are Not So Smart by David McRainey Lamb by Christopher Moore One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte At Home by Bill Bryson The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 2015 Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis The Commitments by Roddy Doyle Wild by Cheryl Strayed Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Sex On the Moon by Ben Mezrich Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The Great Pearl Heist by Molly Caldwell Crosby Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Everything Is Obvious by Duncan J. Watts 2016 The Nightingale Before Christmas by Donna Andrews Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonason Thieves of Book Row by Travis McDade Taft 2012 by Jason Heller Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade Memory Man by David Baldacci The President’s House by Margaret Truman Murder In the White House by Margaret Truman Off the Map by Fergus Fleming A Christmas Hope by Anne Perry WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT READING ROUNDTABLE PAST SELECTIONS 2017 Hamilton by Ron Chernow Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline Dead Wake by Erik Larson A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers The Lost City of the Monkey Gods by Douglas Preston The President’s House by Margaret Truman The Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier Mystery In White by J. Jefferson Farjeon 2018 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly The Yard by Alex Grecian The Greatest Generation by Erik Larson Lake House by Kate Morton Code Girls by Liza Mundy Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason Strays by Britt Collins In the Company of Sherlock Holmes edited by Laurie King Tales and Trails of Illinois by Stu Fliege Chicago by Brian Doyle 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour by Joseph Persico The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories by P.D. James .
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