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Master List of All Books Read Since 2003 McKinney Public Library Master List, Hall Adult Book Club 10/03: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood 11/03: Walking Across Egypt, by Clyde Edgerton 1/04: Miracle at St. Anna, by James McBride 2/04: Light in August, by William Faulkner 3/04: All Over But the Shoutin’, by Rick Bragg 4/04: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by Gregory Maguire 5/04: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith 6/04: Buster Midnight’s Café, by Sandra Dallas 7/04: Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier 8/04: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 9/04: Catch Me if You Can, by Frank Abagnale 10/04: Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn 11/04: The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco 1/05: Empire Falls, by Richard Russo 2/05: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë 3/05: Three Junes, by Julia Glass 4/05: Goodbye to a River, by John Graves 2005-2006: 5/05: The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde 6/05: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac 7/05: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel 8/05: “What Else Are You Reading?” 9/05: The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester 10/05: The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory 11/05: Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 12/05: “What Else Are You Reading?” 1/06: A Gesture Life, by Chang-rae Lee 2/06: The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath 3/06: Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien 4/06: Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya 5/06: The Storyteller’s Daughter, by Saira Shah 6/06: Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor 2006-2007: 7/06: Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane 8/06: “What Else Are You Reading?” 9/06: The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, by Robert J. Begiebing 10/06: Night, by Elie Wiesel 11/06: No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy 12/06: “What Else Are You Reading?” 1/07: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen 2/07: An Evening of Long Goodbyes, by Paul Murray 3/07: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn 4/07: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson 5/07: A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens 6/07: Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi 2007-2008: 7/07: East of Eden, by John Steinbeck 8/07: “What Else Are You Reading?” 9/07: Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo 10/07: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards 11/07: In the Footsteps of Churchill, by Richard Holmes 12/07: “What Else Are You Reading?” 1/08: Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky 2/08: The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars, by Joel Glenn Brenner 3/08: Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather 4/08: Atonement, by Ian McEwan 5/08: The Yacoubian Building, by Alaa Al Aswany 6/08: Madame Curie: A Biography, by Eve Curie 2008-2009: 7/08: House, by Tracy Kidder 8/08: “What Else Are You Reading?” 9/08: I, Claudius, by Robert Graves 10/08: The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell 11/08: Snow Mountain Passage, by James D. Houston 12/08: “What Else Are You Reading?” 1/09: Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Swanson 2/09: The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton 3/09: The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini 4/09: The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson 5/09: An Unfinished Season, by Ward Just 6/09: Rasputin’s Daughter, by Robert Alexander 2009-2010: 7/09: The Plague, by Albert Camus 8/09: “What Else Are You Reading?” 9/09: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism, by Ross King 10/09: A Slight Trick of the Mind, by Mitch Cullen 11/09: Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen, by Bob Greene 12/09: “What Else Are You Reading?” 1/10: The 19th Wife, by David Ebershoff 2/10: In the Woods, by Tana French 3/10: The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4/10: Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in his Life, by Joseph Persico 5/10: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaff and Annie Barrows 6/10: Ex-Libris, by Ross King 2010-2011: 7/10: The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger 8/10: “What Else Are You Reading?” 9/10: The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann 10/10: City of Thieves, by David Benioff 11/10: The Reserve, by Russell Banks 12/10: “What Else Are You Reading?” 1/11: A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster 2/11: Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, by David McCullough 3/11: The Heretics Daughter, by Kathleen Kent 4/11: Dragon Bones: A Red Princess Mystery, by Lisa See 5/11: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan 6/11: The Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich 2011-2012: 7/11: Half Broke Horses: a True Life Novel, by Jeannette Walls 8/11: What Else Are You Reading? 9/11: A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway 10/11: Front Row at the White House, by Helen Thomas 11/11: The Walk, by Lee Goldberg 12/11: What Else Are You Reading? 1/12: A Dangerous Fortune, by Ken Follett 2/12: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett 3/12: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert 4/12: City of Veils, by Zoe Ferraris 5/12: Dead End Gene Pool: a Memoir, by Wendy Burden 6/12: Girl in a Blue Dress: a Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens, by Gaynor Arnold 2012-2013: 7/12: In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson 8/12: What Else Are You Reading? 9/12: Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier 10/12: Empire of the Summer Moon, by Samuel Gwynne 11/12: Caleb’s Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks 12/12: What Else Are You Reading? 1/13: New York, by Edward Rutherfurd 2/13: Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin 3/13: The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck 4/13: An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears 5/13: Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand 6/13: The Paris Wife, by Paula McClain 2013-2014: 7/13: The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 8/13: What Else Are You Reading? 9/13: Catherine the Great, by Robert Massie 10/13: The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh 11/13: Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens 12/13: What Else Are You Reading? 1/14: 11/22/63, by Stephen King 2/14: Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana deRosnay 3/14: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough 4/14: Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson 5/14: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot 6/14: Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio 2014-2015: 7/14: 1984, by George Orwell 8/14: What Else Are You Reading? 9/14: The Aviator’s Wife, by Melanie Benjamin 10/14: The Outcasts, by Kathleen Kent 11/14: The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara 12/14: What Else Are You Reading? 1/15: The Book Thief ,by Markus Zusak 2/15: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, by Nicholas Carr 3/15: The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins 4/15: Cleopatra’s Daughter, by Michelle Moran 5/15: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt 6/15: She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, by Helen Castor 2015-2016: 7/15: Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail, by Cheryl Strayed 8/15: What Else Are You Reading? 9/15: Paris, by William Rutherfurd 10/15: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan 11/15: The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathanial Hawthorne 12/15: What Else Are You Reading? 1/16: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese 2/16: The Monuments Men, by Robert Edsel 3/16: The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles 4/16: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Therese Ann Fowler 5/16: The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown 6/16: The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner 2016-2017: 7/16: The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd 8/16: What Else are you Reading? 9/16: The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins 10/16: Lady in Gold, by Anne Marie O’Connor 11/16: The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Amy Tan 12/16: Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan 1/17: What Else are you Reading? 2/17: The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot 3/17: The Wrecking Crew, by Kent Hartman 4/17: The Dovekeepers, by Alice Hoffman 5/17: At the Water’s Edge, by Sara Gruen 6/17: The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenger 2017-2018: 7/17: The Sound of Broken Glass, by Deborah Crombie 8/17: What Else Are You Reading? 9/17: Madame Tussaud: a Novel of the French Revolution, by Michelle Moran 10/17: The Shack, by William P. Young 11/17: The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah 12/17: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See 1/18: What Else Are You Reading? 2/18: Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow 3/18: Princess: a True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, by Jean Sasson 4/18: Hidden figures: the Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch our Nation into Space, by Margot Lee Shetterly 5/18: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: a Hercule Poirot Mystery, by Agatha Christie 6/18: The Storied Life of A.
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