Wichita Falls Public Library Book Discussion Group Books Listed by Discussion Date 1. Message in a Bottle & The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks (2/99) 2. Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes (3/99) 3. Last Orders – Graham Swift (4/99) 4. Emma – Jane Austen (5/99) 5. Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean Auel (6/99) 6. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt (7/99) 7. At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon (8/99) 8. First Deadly Sin – Lawrence Sanders (9/99) 9. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier (10/99) 10. 84, Charing Cross Road – Helen Hanff (12/99) 11. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (1/00) 12. Postmortem – Patricia Cornwell (2/00) 13. Travels with Charley – John Steinbeck (3/00) 14. Goodbye to a River – John Graves (4/00) 15. Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson (5/00) 16. Color of Water – James McBride (6/00) 17. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling (7/00) 18. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (8/00) 19. Train to Estelline – Jane Roberts Wood (9/00) 20. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen – Larry McMurtry (10/00) 21. Life Estates – Shelby Hearon (12/00) 22. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (1/01) 23. Trotter Ross – James Hoggard (2/01) 24. The Seamstress – Sara Tuvel Bernstein (3/01) 25. Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver (4/01) 26. First Mothers – Bonnie Angelo (5/01) 27. Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz (6/01) 28. Booked to Die – John Dunning (7/01) 29. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine – Jo Ella Powell Exley (8/01) 30. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt (9/01) 31. An Hour Before Daylight – Jimmy Carter (10/01) 32. Desert Exile - Yoshiko Uchida (12/01) 33. The Blessing Way – Tony Hillerman (1/02) 34. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson (2/02) 35. Along Came a Spider – James Patterson (3/02) 36. All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot (4/02) 37. She Walks These Hills – Sharyn McCrumb (5/02) 38. Cry the Beloved Country – Alan Paton (6/02) 39. Peachtree Road – Anne Rivers Siddons (7/02) 40. The Blessing Way – Tony Hillerman (8/02) 41. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America – Barbara Ehrenreich (9/02) 42. Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – Nicholas Sparks (10/02) 43. Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier (11/02) 44. Princess: a True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia - Jean Sasson (12/02) 45. Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast - Bill Richardson (1/03) 46. Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women’s Resistance - Cheryl Bernard (2/03) 47. Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland (3/03) 48. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester (4/03) 49. The Romance Reader - Pearl Abraham (5/03) 50. A Smile as Big as the Moon: a Teacher, his Class, and their Unforgettable Journey - Michael Kersjes (6/03) 51. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant (7/03) 52. The Bee Season – Myla Goldberg (8/03) 53. The Dress Lodger – Sheri Holman (9/03) 54. The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve (10/03) 55. The Cat Who Covered the World – Christopher S. Wren (11/03) 56. In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden – Kathleen Cambor (12/03) 57. Bootlegger’s Daughter – Margaret Maron (1/04) 58. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (2/04) 59. Big Stone Gap – Adriana Trigiani (3/04) 60. The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin (4/04) 61. Enemy Women – Paulette Giles (5/04) 62. Last Girls – Lee Smith (6/04) 63. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café – Fannie Flagg (7/04) 64. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd (8/04) 65. Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (9/04) 66. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (10/04) 67. Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History – Erik Larson (11/04) 68. Skipping Christmas – John Grisham (12/04) 69. Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt (1/05) 70. Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand (2/05) 71. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith (3/05) 72. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee (4/05) 73. Cross Country Quilters – Jennifer Chiaverini (5/05) 74. When God Winks – Squire Rushnell (6/05) 75. Kim – Rudyard Kipling (7/05) 76. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (8/05) 77. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck (9/05) 78. Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier – Scott Zesch (10/05) 79. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology – Eric Brende (11/05) 80. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading – Sara Nelson (12/05) 81. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi (1/06) 82. Chocolat – Joanne Harris (2/06) 83. Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns (3/06) 84. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (4/06) 85. Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson (5/06) 86. A Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks (6/06) 87. Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie (7/06) 88. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (8/06) 89. The Kite Runner –Khaled Hosseini (9/06) 90. The Water is Wide – Pat Conroy (10/06) 91. The Tulip and the Pope – Deborah Larsen (11/06) 92. Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & the Thanksgiving Visitor (short stories) – Truman Capote (12/06) 93. Night – Elie Wiesel (1/07) 94. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (2/07) 95. Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes – Julie Cannon (3/07) 96. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler (4/07) 97. The Awakening – Kate Chopin (5/07) 98. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind – Ann B. Ross (6/07) 99. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (7/07) 100. The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America – Erik Larson (8/07) 101. Angry Housewives Eating BonBons – Lorna Landviak (9/07) 102. Rocket Boys – Homer Hickam (10/07) 103. A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel (11/07) 104. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog – Dave Barry (12/07) 105. The Ladies of Missalonghi – Colleen McCullough (1/08) 106. Tales of Texoma – Michael Collins (2/08) 107. The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl (3/08) 108. Any book by or about Beatrix Potter (4/08) 109. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen (5/08) 110. Plain Secrets: an Outsider among the Amish – Joe MacKall (6/08) 111. The Diary of Mattie Spenser – Sandra Dallas (7/08) 112. Witness – Sandra Brown (8/08) 113. Crashing Through – A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See – Robert Kurson (9/08) 114. Misery – Stephen King (10/08) 115. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini (11/08) 116. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell (12/08) 117. Daniel Half-Human – David Chotjewitz (1/09) 118. On Agate Hill – Lee Smith (2/09) 119. The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment that Transformed their Lives – Cheryl Jarvis (3/09) 120. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See (4/09) 121. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer (5/09) 122. Time and Again – Jack Finney (6/09) 123. Gods in Alabama – Joshilyn Jackson (7/09) 124. The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls (8/09) 125. The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory (9/09) 126. Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World – Vicki Myron (10/09) 127. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert (11/09) 128. The Christmas Sweater – Glenn Beck (12/09) 129. Hold Tight – Harlan Coben (1/10) 130. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer (2/10) 131. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon (3/10) 132. A Year of Fog – Michelle Richmond (4/10) 133. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (5/10) 134. Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson (6/10) 135. The Year of Living Biblically – A.J. Jacobs (7/10) 136. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (8/10) 137. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford (9/10) 138. Same Kind of Different As Me – Ron Hall and Denver Moore (10/10) 139. Sweet By and By – Todd Johnson (11/10) 140. Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay (12/10) 141. Strangers on a Train – Patricia Highsmith (1/11) 142. Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley (2/11) 143. A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick (3/11) 144. The Crying Tree – Naseem Rakha (4/11) 145. Mudbound – Hillary Jordan (5/11) 146. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (6/11) 147. The Help – Kathryn Stockett (7/11) 148. The Witch Doctor’s Wife – Tamar Myers (8/11) 149. Loving Frank – Nancy Horan (9/11) 150. Wench – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (10/11) 151. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender (11/11) 152. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes - Diane Chamberlain (12/11) 153. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party – Alexander McCall Smith (1/12) 154. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot (2/12) 155. The Wives of Henry Oades – Johanna Moran (3/12) 156. Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran (4/12) 157. Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese (5/12) 158. Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption - Laura Hillenbrand (6/12) 159. Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbary (7/12) 160. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson (8/12) 161. Room – Emma Donoghue (9/12) 162. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (10/12) 163. Tara Road – Maeve Binchy (11/12) 164. One Thousand White Women – Jim Fergus (12/12) 165. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – Barbara Demick (1/13) 166. Still Alice – Lisa Genova (2/13) 167. A Land More Kind than Home – Wiley Cash (3/13) 168.