Past Afternoon Book Club Reading Lists

2016-17 The Chaperone, by Laura Moriarty To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan The Piano Maker, by Kurt Palka The Illegal, by Lawrence Hill Bird's Eye View, by Elinor Florence

2015-16 Ragged Company, by Richard Wagamese Vanessa and her Sister, by Prima Parmar The Churchill Factor, by Boris Johnson Emancipation Day, by Wayne Grady Me before You, by Jojo Moyes Who by Fire, by Fred Stenson The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd

2014-15 , The Orenda Barbara Graziosi, The Gods of Olympus, Jonas Jonasson, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief Nancy Richler, The Imposter Bride José Saramago, The Elephant’s Journey , Dressing up for the Carnival

2013-14 Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , 419 Penelope Lively, How it all Began Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists Thomas King, Inconvenient Indian Cheryl Strayed, Wild

2012-13 Alexander Fuller, Don’t let’s go to the Dogs Tonight Edmund de Waal, The Hare with the Amber Eyes , The Cat’s Table , Half-Blood Blues Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus Charles Dickens, A Tale of two Cities Lief Enger, Peace Like a River

2011-12 Jack Weatherford, The Secret History of Mongol QueensTerry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans Richard Wright, Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard Kathyrn Stockett, The Help Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Abraham Verghese, Cutting For Stone Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

2010-11 Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key Catherine Gildiner, Too Close to the Falls Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man Lisa Genova, Still Alice Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

2009-10 Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Nancy Horan, Loving Frank Paul Theroux , Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Ken McGoogan, Lady Franklin's Revenge

2008-09 Beatrice Mac Neil, Where White Horses Gallop Frieda Jackson, Searching for Billie , De Niro’s Game Shauna Singh Baldwin, The Tiger’s Claw , , Greg Mortensen, David Relin, Three Cups of Tea Gil Adamson, The Outlander

2007-08 Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants Khaled Hosseini, A Mystery; A Thousand Splendid Suns ; A Map of Glass Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française Ami McKay, The Birth House Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

2006-07 Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly , The Time In-Between Mireille Guiliano, French Women don't get Fat Beth Powning, The Hat-box Letters Catherine Bush, Claire's Head Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen Todd Babiak, The Garneau Block