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SUNDAY NIGHT BOOK GROUP TITLE AUTHOR DATE the Things SUNDAY NIGHT BOOK GROUP TITLE AUTHOR DATE The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 09/95 Red Azalea Anchee Min 10/95 A Midwife's Tale Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 11/95 Girl Interrupted Susanna Kaysen Map of the World Jane Hamilton Palace Walk Naguib Maloof The Bird Artist Howard Norman Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner 9/96 ? 10/96 The Liars Club Mary Karr My Antonia/Death Comes to the Archbishop Willa Carther 01/97 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies 02/97 Portrait of a Lady Henry James 03/97 Having Our Say Sarah & Eliz. Delany 04/96 The Magnificient Spinster May Sarton 01/97 A Civil Action Jonathon Harr 09/97 The Color of Water James McBride 10/97 Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner 12/97 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 01/98 Remembering Babylon David Malouf 02/98 The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 03/98 The Country Doctor Sarah Orne Jewett 03/98 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 04/98 Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernires 05/98 In the Wilderness Kim Barnes 06/98 Under the Tuscan Sun Frances Mayes 07/98 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 08/98 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 09/98 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 10/98 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Ann Fadiman 11/98 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 01/99 Miracle at Philadelphia Catherine Drinker Bowen 02/99 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom 03/99 The People's History of the U.S. Howard Zinn 04/99 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 05/99 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 06/99 Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah 09/99 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling 10/99 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 11/99 A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson 01/00 1 SUNDAY NIGHT BOOK GROUP TITLE AUTHOR DATE The Professor and Mad Man Simon Winchester 02/00 Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond 04/00 The Perfect Storm Sebestian Junger 05/00 The Lexus and The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 09/00 Hannah’s Daughters Marianne Fredrikson 11/00 Girl In Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland 12/00 The Samurai’s Garden Gail Tsukiyama 1/01 A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 2/01 These is My Words Nancy Turner 3/01 Galileo’s Daughter Dana Sobel 4/01 Cod Mark Kurlansky 5/01 In Her Own Words Jill Ker Conway (Ed) 6/01 Girl With A Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier 7/01 All Souls Michael P. MacDonald 9/01 The Awakening Kate Chopin 10/01 Nine Parts of Desire Geraldine Brooks 12/01 How We Live Sherwin B. Nuland 1/02 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 2/02 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in Barbara Ehrenreich 3/02 America A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot 4/02 The Orchard: A Memoir Adele Crockett Robertson 5/02 The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan 8/02 Martyrs’ Crossing Amy Wilentz 9/02 In the Time of Butterflies Julia Alvarez 10/02 Empire Falls Richard Russo 11/02 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 12/02 When Heaven and Earth Change Places LeLy Hayship & Jay Wurts 1/03 Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand 2/03 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence 3/03 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie, Dai 4/03 Map of Love Soueif, Ahdl 5/03 Desirable Daughters Mukherjee, Bharati 6/03 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown, Dee 7/03 The Secret Lives of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk 9/03 Davita’s Harp Potok, Chaim 10/03 East of Eden Steinbeck, John 11/03 Savage Beauty Milford, Nancy 1/04 Human Stain Roth, Philip 2/04 Lolita Nabakov, Vladimir 3/04 The Arbitrary Sword Goshgarian, Diane 4/04 2 SUNDAY NIGHT BOOK GROUP TITLE AUTHOR DATE Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi, Azar 5/04 The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Lamb, Christina 6/04 Voyage through Afghanistan The NO. 1Ladies’ Detective Agency and other Smith, Alexander McCall 7/04 books in the series Out on the Rim Thomas, Ross 8/04 The Big House Colt, George Howe 9/04 The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled 10/04 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Haddon, Mark 11/04 Nightime She’s Not There Boylan, Jennifer Finney 12/04 Mountains Beyond Mountains Kidder, Tracy 1/05 A Border Passage Ahmed, Leila 2/05 Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Fuller, Alexandra 3/05 Plainsong Haruf, Kent 4/05 Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer, Jon 6/05 Fast Food Nation Schlosser, Eric 7/05 Don’t Think of An Elephant! Lakoff, George 8/05 The Other Boleyn Girl Gregory, Philippa 9/05 When the Emperor Was Divine Otsuka, Julie 10/05 The Devil in the White City Larson, Erik 11/05 Gift from the Sea Lindbergh, Anne Morrow 12/05 Old School Wolff, Tobias 1/06 The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House and The Education of Paul Suskind, Ron 2/06 O’Neill Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Kolata, Gina 3/06 Pandemic Snow Flower and The Secret Fan See, Lisa 4/06 The Portrait Pears, Iain 6/06 Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad Bordewich, Fergus 7/06 and The War for The Soul of America March Brooks, Geraldine 8/06 The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Marshall, Megan 9/06 Ignited American Romanticism The Bostonians James, Henry 10/06 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Bird, Kai & Martin J. 12/06 Tragedy of J. 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