The “Booked for the Evening” book discussion group began March 1999. Our selections have included fiction, mysteries, science fiction, short stories, biographies, non-fiction, memoirs, historical fiction, and young adult books. We’ve been to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America, the Antarctic, Africa, India, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the oceans of the world. We’ve explored both the past and the future.
After more than 15 years and over two hundred books, we are still reading, discussing, laughing, disagreeing, and sharing our favorite titles and authors.
Please join us for more interesting and lively book discussions. For more information contact the Roseville Public Library 586-445-5407.
List of Discussion Titles (by title)
1984 George Orwell February 2014 84 Charring Cross Road Helene Hanff November 2003 A Cold Day in Paradise Steve Hamilton October 2008 A Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler July 2001 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving December 1999 A Room of One’s Own Virginia Wolff January 2001 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka December 2008 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie October 2010 Affliction Russell Banks August 2011 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho June 2008 Along Came a Spider James Patterson June 1999 An Inconvenient Wife Megan Chance April 2007 Anatomy of a Murder Robert Traver November 2006 Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt August 1999 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner April 2010 Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret Steve Luxenberg October 2013 Arc of Justice: a Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age Kevin Boyle February 2007 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne July 2011
Page 1 of 6 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner July 1999 The Awakening Kate Chopin November 2001 Ballad of Frankie Silver Sharyn McCrumb June 2003 Before I Go to Sleep S. J. Watson May 2014 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo August 2014 Bel Canto Ann Patchett February 2005 Billy Budd Herman Melville December 2011 Bleak House Charles Dickens May 2007 Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West Hampton Sides June 2009 The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan November 2004 The Book Thief Markus Zusak September 2009 Brave New World Aldous Huxley August 2003 The Buccaneers Edith Wharton July 2007 Bury the Chains Adam Hochschild July 2012 The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling September 2014 The Cater Street Hangman Ann Perry September 2001 The Christmas Train David Baldacci December 2007 Cider House Rules John Irving September 2000 City of Thieves David Benioff June 2012 The Color of Water James McBride August 2006 Consequences Penelope Lively May 2011 Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner October 2012 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon March 2005 The Custom of the County Edith Wharton August 2000 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese February 2015 Cry the Beloved Country Ellen Paton March 2004 Daughter of Time Josephine Tey May 2003 Death of a Red Heroine Xiaolong Qui May 2012 Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard May 1999 Defending Jacob William Landay September 2013 Detroit Women Writers – Discussion October 2000 The Devil in the White City Erik Larson October 2006 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler August 2002 The Doll Maker Harriett Arnow September 2004 Dying for Chocolate Diane Mott Davidson December 2001 East of Eden John Steinbeck September 2002 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton June 2005 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury October 2005 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes January 2010 The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright Noah Adams January 2011 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate Alexander McCall Smith March 2007 Page 2 of 6 The Friendship Cake Lynne Hinton November 2000 Gentlemen and Players Joanne Harris February 2012 The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World Eric Weiner June 2010 The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World Steven Johnson August 2009 Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides April 2004 Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier February 2002 The Good Thief Hannah Tinti April 2014 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck November 2015 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer May 2010 Hamlet William Shakespeare March 2014 Hannah’s Dream Diane Hammond March 2009 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad January 2006 Hearts of Horses Molly Gloss August 2012 Hello, Darkness Sandra Brown August 2005 The Help Kathryn Stockett November 2011 Holes Louis Sachar July 2004 Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan September 2006 The Honk and Holler Opening Soon Billie Letts May 2000 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford December 2014 The Hours Michael Cunningham April 2003 House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus April 2001 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai July 2015 I Know This Much is True Wally Lamb May 2002 Icebound Dr. Jerri Nielsen August 2001 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot October 2011 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde September 2005 In the Lake of the Woods Tim O’Brien October 2007 In the Time of Butterflies Julia Alvarez May 2005 Isaac’s Storm Erik Larson September 2007 The Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom September 2015 Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini March 2006 Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Laurence March 2003 Larry’s Party Carol Shields September 2008 Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper May 2004 Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Immaculeé Ilibagiza January 2014 Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng November 2005 Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain November 2010 The Lifeboat Charlotte Rogan June 2015 The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman November 2013 Page 3 of 6 The Lighthouse Keeper James Michael Pratt October 2002 The Living Great Lakes Jerry Dennis April 2012 The Lone Star Rangers Zane Grey November 2007 Longitude Dava Sobel May 2006 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez February 2001 Macbeth William Shakespeare February 2013 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert April 2011 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Helen Simonson November 2012 Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer James L. Swanson August 2008 The March E.L. Doctorow June 2007 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy January 2008 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden September 1999 The Mermaid Chair Sue Monk Kidd June 2006 Michigan: A Bicentennial History Bruce Catton November 2009 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides April 2006 The Mirror Lynn Freed October 1999 Montana 1948 Larry Watson October 2003 Moo Jane Smiley September 2003 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie January 2002 My Antonia Willa Cather June 2001 My cousin Rachael Daphne DuMaurier July 2003 The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway May 2008 The Northern Lights Lucy Jago June 2011 Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson July 2010 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck December 2003 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout September 2010 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey February 2011 One for the Money Janet Evanovich February 2000 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez March 2012 One Summer: America 1927 Bill Bryson April 2015 One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd Larry Watson Jim Fergus February 2004 Open House Elizabeth Berg April 2002 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory July 2006 The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Wes Moore December 2015 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell March 2011 The Persian Pickle Club Sandra Dallas June 2000 Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett February 2003 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver March 2002 Portrait of a Lady Henry James October 2001 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene December 2012 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen October 2009 The Reader Bernhard Schlink November 1999 Page 4 of 6 Reader’s Choice January 2000 Reader’s Choice January 2004 Reader's Choice August 2015 Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier April 2005 Resistance Anita Shreve June 2013 The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey Candice Millard May 2009 Road from Coorain Jill Conway January 2007 Room Emma Donoghue August 2013 Rosehaven Catherine Coulter July 2005 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion May 2015 Sacré Bleu: a comedy d’art Christopher Moore July 2013 Same Time Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin January 2005 The Sea Wolf Jack London December 2005 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand August 2004 Second Hand Michael Zadorian June 2004 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd January 2003 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson February 2006 The Shipping News Annie Proulx May 2013 Chitra Banerjee Sister of My Heart Divakaruni June 2002 Skipping Christmas John Grisham December 2002 The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey June 2014 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See March 2008 Snow in August (One Book One Community) Pete Hamill July 2002 Solstice Joyce Carol Oates May 2001 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner October 2004 State of Wonder Ann Patchett April 2013 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel October 2015 Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (“Great Michigan Read”) Bich Minh Nguyen March 2010 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields November 2002 Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr December 2010 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski December 2009 Sula Toni Morrison January 2013 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway August 2007 Tallgrass Sandra Dallas July 2014 The Thanksgiving Visitor, A Christmas Memory Truman Capote December 2000 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston November 2014 Them Joyce Carol Oates February 2008 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe August 2010 Thunderstruck Eric Larson November 2008 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee April 2000 Travels with Charley: In Search of America John Steinbeck January 2009 Page 5 of 6 Unbroken: a World War II Airman’s Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand October 2014 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett December 2013 Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Stephen Ambrose February 2010 Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer December 2006 The Union Club Mysteries Isaac Asimov July 2009 Unto the Daughters: The legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family Karen Tintori March 2013 The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides July 2000 The Virtuous Woman Kaye Gibbons March 2001 Walden Henry David Thoreau January 2012 Water for Elephants Sara Gruen April 2008 Weight of Water Anita Shreve March 2000 The Welsh Girl Peter Ho Davies July 2008 What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage March 1999 Whose Body? Dorothy Sayers December 2004 The Widower's Tale Julia Glass March 2015 Widow’s War Sally Gunning April 2009 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed January 2015 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson September 2011 The World Without Us Alan Weisman September 2012 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan February 2009
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