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Katonah Village Library Adult Book Discussion Group - Title Selections Katonah Village Library Adult Book Discussion Group - Title Selections 2017 The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin Double Indemnity by James M. Cain The Bees by Laline Paull Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Funny Girl by Nick Hornby Brewster by Mark Slouka The Girls by Emma Cline Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard The Circle by Dave Eggers Neverhome by Laird Hunt City of Thieves by David Benioff The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain The Devil and Webster by Jean H. Korelitz Regeneration by Pat Barker Dodgers, A Novel by William Beverley The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 2016 Ancient Light by John Banville Remarkable Creatures by Tracey Chevalier Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant The Round House by Louise Erdrich Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino The Sellout by Paul Beatty Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith In the Kitchen by Monica Ali Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen Little Bee by Chris Cleave The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen March by Geraldine Brooks Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee The Water Knife by Paolo Baciagalupi Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 2015 All That Is by James Salter The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan The Ask by Sam Lipsyte Mudbound by Hillary Jordan Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier A Changed Man by Francine Prose The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Euphoria by Lily King by Jonathan Evison The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison How to be Both by Ali Smith Swamplandia! by Karen Russell The Lord of Misrule by Jamey Gordon 2014 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg American Rust by Philip Meyer Molok’ai by Alan Brennert The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philip Sendker Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Sparta by Roxanne Robinson Canada by Richard Ford Stoner by John Williams The House Girl by Tara Conklin A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki The House on Fortune Steet by Margot Livesey We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves How It All Began by Penelope Lively by Karen Joy Fowler 2013 American Dervish by Ayad Akatar The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash The Reef by Edith Wharton The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy Seek My Face by John Updike Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan Nemesis by Philip Roth White Teeth by Zadie Smith Netherland by Joseph O’Neill 2012 The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett The Master by Colm Toibin Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons Old Filth by Jane Gardam by Lorna Landvik One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin The Reserve by Russell Banks The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes Rules of Civility by Amor Towles in New England by Brock Clark Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan The Book of Salt by Monique Truong The Submission by Amy Waldman In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Three Women by Marge Piercy 2011 Blame by Michelle Huneven The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King Half-Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls Sunnyside by Glen David Gold The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Privileges by Jonathan Dee 2010 The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti Small Island by Andrea Levy In the Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde Spooner by Pete Dexter Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker Old School by Tobias Wolff Song Yet Sung by James McBride The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick 2009 The African Queen by C.S. Forester Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Blessings by Anna Quindlen The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Diaz Junot The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver In a Country of Mothers by A.M. Homes The Princess Bride by William Golding Ghostwalk by Rebecca Sott Run by Ann Patchett Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon True North by Jim Harrison Matrimony by Joshua Henkin The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff.
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