SECOND TUESDAY BOOK DISCUSSION TITLES FROM 1997-2007

The Second Tuesday Book Discussion Groups for adults are led by a member of the Library's Reader's Advisory staff.

(In alphabetical order; nonfiction titles indicated by call number)

The following titles are fiction unless otherwise noted.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann (970.011 MAN) After Rain William Trevor Ali and Nino Kurban Said Alias Grace Margaret Atwood All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes Maya Angelou B Angelou All over but the Shoutin’ Rick Bragg B Bragg All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: an American Misfit in India Rachel Manija Brown (915.4 BRO) All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and the End of the Universe Charles Seife (523.1 SEI) American Appetites Joyce Carol Oates American Sphinx: the Character of Thomas Jefferson Joseph J. Ellis 973.46092 ELL American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Kevin P. Phillips (973.93 PHI) Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us James Carroll 813.54 CAR An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood Jimmy Carter B Carter Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver April 1865: The Month that Saved America Jay Winik 973.7 WIN Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy Robert McNamara 959.7043 ARG The Ash Garden Dennis Bock Ava’s Man Rick Bragg B Bundrum The Bee Season Myla Goldberg The Beginning and the End Naguib Mahfouz Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson Beloved Toni Morrison Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home George Howe Colt (974.492 COL) Birdsong Sebastian Faulks The Book of Famous Iowans Douglas Bauer Bound Feet & Western Dress Pang-Mei Natasha Chang 305.420951 CHA Bound for Canaan: the Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America Fergus Bordewich (973.7115 BOR) The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Buffalo Soldier Christopher A. Bohjalian Burden of Desire Robert MacNeill Charms for the Easy Life Kaye Gibbons Children of God Mary Doria Russell Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared M. Diamond (304.28 DIA) The Color of Water James McBride 947.7100496 MCB The Complete Stories Flannery O’Connor A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine Trent Stephens 615.782 STE Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town Paul Theroux (916 THE) Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Erik Larson (364.1523 LAR) Dina’s Book Herbjorg Wassmo Disgrace J. M. Coetzee The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Alexandra Fuller (968.9104 FUL) Down to a Soundless Sea Thomas Steinbeck The Dream of Scipio Iain Pears Dreams From My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama Dreams of My Russian Summers Andrei Makine The Echo Maker Richard Power Eleanor and Harry: the Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Eleanor Roosevelt 973.918 ROO Eleanor of Aquitaine Alison Weir B Eleanor Eleni Nicholas Gage 949.5074 GAG Empire Falls Richard Russo The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey Sachs (339.46 SAC) The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Evening Class Maeve Binchy Fair and Tender Ladies Lee Smith A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry Galileo’s Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Dava Sobel 520.92 SOB The Ginger Tree Oswald Wynd A Girl Named Zippy Haven Kimmel (B Kimmel) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King The Giver Lois Lowry The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams (812.54 WIL) The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina Frank Rich (973.93 RIC) The Ha-ha Dave King The Haj Leon Uris The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers He, She and It Marge Piercy The History of Love Nicole Krauss Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times Studs Terkel (920 TER) The Hours Michael Cunningham The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros How the Canyon Became Grand Stephen J. Pyne 979.1 PYN How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh I Dreamed of Africa Kuki Gallmann 967.6204 GAL An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America Henry Wiencek (973.41092 WIE) In a Sunburned Country Bill Bryson 919.4 BRY In America Susan Sontag The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Interpreter of Maladies: Stories Jhumpa Lahiri Iron and Silk Mark Salzman Jayber Crow: a Novel Wendell Berry Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Known World Edward P. Jones The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich Letters from Yellowstone Diane Smith The Lexus and the Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 337 FRI The Life of Pi Yann Martel Lindbergh A. Scott Berg B Lindbergh Linked: The New Science of Networks Albert-Laszlo Barabasi 003.7 BAR The Living Annie Dillard Long Way Home Connie Briscoe Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11 Thomas L.Friedman 973.931 FRI The Lost Painting: the Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece Jonathan Harr (759.5 HAR) Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Love Wife Gish Jen The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold The Magician’s Wife Brian Moore Mary and O’Neil Justin Cronin The Master Colm Tóibín The Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick (973.22 PHI) Mayor of Casterbridge: the Story of a Man of Character Thomas Hardy Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story John Berendt 975.8724 BER Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare (822.33 P7) Miles from Nowhere: A Round-the-World Bicycle Adventure Barbara Savage The Mill on the Floss George Eliot The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough Mother to Mother Sindiwe Magona Mountain City Gregory Martin 979.316 MAR Mrs. Bridge Evan Connell Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf My Antonia Willa Cather My Invented Country: a Nostalgic Journey Through Chile Isabel Allende (863.64 ALL) The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri Nothing Like It in the World: the Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863- 1869 Stephen Ambrose 385.0973 AMB The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Sophocles (882.01 SOP) On Beauty Zadie Smith One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd Jim Fergus Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty Our Mother’s War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II Emily Yellin (940.53082 YEL) Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa Keith Richburg 306.0967 RIC The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich The Painted House John Grisham The Passion of Artemesia Susan Vreeland Pavilion of Women Pearl Buck Peace Like a River Leif Enger The Perfect Storm: a True Story of Men Against the Sea Sebastian Junger 974.45 JUN Personal History Katharine Graham B Graham Peyton Place Grace Metalious The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Plainsong Kent Haruf The Plot Against America Philip Roth The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Popular Music From Vittula Mikael Niemi Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time Michael Perry 808.883 PER The Power and the Glory Graham Greene A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving The Professor’s House Willa Cather The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick The Rape of Nanking: the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Iris Chang 951.042 CHA Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books Azar Nafisi (820.9 NAF) Red Azalea Anchee Min 951.05092 MIN The Red Tent Anita Diamant Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Remembering Laughter Wallace Stegner Reversible Errors Scott Turow The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey Candice Millard (981.13 MIL) The River Why David James Duncan Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway B Conway Ruin Creek David Payne The Samurai’s Garden Gail Tsukiyama Saturday Ian McEwan Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Nancy Milford B Millay Shadow Divers: the True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II Robert Kurson (940.5451 KUR) Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie She Walks These Hills Sharyn McCrumb The Singing C. K. Williams The Siege Helen Dunmore Slaves in the Family Edward Ball 975.7915 BAL Staggerford Jon Hassler Standing in the Rainbow Fannie Flagg Stones from the River Ursula Hegi The Stories of Eva Luna Isabel Allende Suite Française Irene Nemirovsky Tears of the Cheetah: and Other Tales from the Genetic Frontline Stephen J.O’ Brien (591.35 OBR) The Tender Bar: a Memoir J. R. Moehringer (070.92 MOE) Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy These Is My Words: the Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories, a Novel Nancy E. Turner The Thief of Time Tony Hillerman Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Three Junes Julia Glass Tiger Ladies: a Memoir of Kashmir Sudha Koul 954.6 KOU To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons Mary Kingsley 916.7 KIN The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See Naomi Wolf (813.54 WOL) Trinity Leon Uris True Notebooks Mark Salzman Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson Mitch Albom 378.12092 ALB Two Lives William Trevor Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Stephen E. Ambrose 973.46 AMB An Unfinished Life Mark Spragg Vanishing Acts Jodi Picoult The Voyage of the Narwhal Andrea Barrett Walking Across Egypt Clyde Edgerton The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart Alice Walker West with the Night Beryl Markham B Markham What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response Bernard Lewis 956.015 LEW When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Gregory Maguire Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang 951.05 CHA Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Stephen Greenblatt (822.33 GRE) The World Is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman World War II Robert Kurson (940.5451 KUR) Year of Wonders: a Novel of the Plague Geraldine Brooks (YA FIC BROOKS) (303.4833 FRI)