Monticello Public Library Book Club List by Year
1999
The Devine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, by: Rebecca Wells
East of the Mountains, by: David Guterson
The Antelope Wife, by: Louise Erdrich
The Queen’s Man, by: Sharon Kay Penman
A Small Rain, by: Madeleine L'Engle
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by: Betty Smith
Where the Heart Is, by: Billie Letts
2000
The Tortilla Curtain, by: T. C. Boyle
Nectar in a Sieve, by: Kamala Markandaya
The Night Remembers, by: Kathleen Eagle
Never Forsaken, by: Kathleen Jacobs
Mother to Mother, by: Sindiwe Magona
Poisonwood Bible, by: Barbara Kingsolver
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by: J.K. Rowling
The Patchwork Planet, by: Anne Tyler
The Saving Graces, by: Patricia Gaffney
Dracula, by: Bram Stoker
Cold Mountain, by: Charles Frazier
TheThin Woman, by: Dorothy Cannell
2001
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by: John Irving
Emma, by: Jane Austen
The Mammy, by: Brendan O’Carroll
American Heaven, by: Maxine Chernoff
Poetry,
The Mists of Avalon, by: Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Giver, by: Lois Lowry
The Romance Reader, by: Pearl Abraham
Disobedience, by: Jane Hamilton
Salem’s Lot, by: Stephen King
Midwives, by: Chris Bohjalian
Poetry
2002
Memoirs of a Geisha, by: Arthur Golden
Blackberry Wine, by: Joanne Harris
The Scarlet Letter, by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cane River, by: Lalita Tademy
Waiting, by: Ha Jin
Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table, by: Ruth Reichl
Stuck in Nuetral, by: Terry Trueman
The Rosewood Casket, by: Sharon McCrumb
Girl With a Pearl Earring, by: Tracy Chevalier
Waiting for the Paraclete, by: Lise Goett
Some Days There’s Pie, by: Catherine Landis
Poetry
2003
Alice Springs, by: Nikki Gemmell
The Catcher in the Rye, by: J.D. Salinger
It’s Not About the Bike, by: Lance Armstrong
The Cape Ann, by: Faith Sullivan
I Loved You All, by: Paula Sharp
Sally Hemmings, by: Barbara Chase-Riboud
The Skin I’m In, by: Sharon Flake
The Summons, by: John Grisham
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, by: Ann Packer
Rabbit Proof Fence, by: Doris Pilkington
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by: Sherman Alexi
Poetry
2004
To Kill a Mockingbird, by: Harper Lee
Red and White: Wine Made Simple, by: Max Allen
Pope Joan, by: Donna Woolfolk Cross
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by: Zora Neale Hurston
Ida Mae Tutweiler and the Traveling Tea Party, by: Ginnie Siena Bivona
The Lovely Bones, by: Alice Sebold
Missing What’s-Her-Name, by: Andrew Oliver
Kate Remembered, by: A. Scott Berg
The Bluest Eye, by: Toni Morrison
The Amateur Marriage, by: Anne Tyler
Rebecca, by: Daphne Du Maurier
Poetry
2005
The Red Tent, by: Anita Diamant
Fall on Your Knees, by: Anne-Marie MacDonald
The Secret Life of Bees, by: Sue Monk Kidd
The Professor and the Madman, by: Simon Winchester
Life of Pi, by: Yann Martel
She’s Come Undone, by: Wally Lamb
Homecoming, by: Cynthia Voigt
Empire Falls, by: Richard Russo
Population 485, by: Michael Perry
The Reader , by: Bernhard Schlink
Things Fall Apart, by: Chinua Achebe
Poetry
2006
My Antonia, by: Willa Cather
Pride & Prejudice, by: Jane Austen
The Once and Future King, by: T. H. White
The Great Gatsby, by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary, by: Gustave Flaubert
A Good Man is Hard to Find, by: Flannery O’Connor
Animal Farm, by: George Orwell
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by: Ernest Hemingway
Lolita, by: Vladimir Nabokov
Frankenstein, by: Mary Shelley
In Cold Blood, by: Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory, by: Truman Capote
2007
My Sister’s Keeper, by: Jodi Picoult
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Kite Runner, by: Khaled Hosseini
Death Beyond the Willows, by: Greg Peck
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, by: David von Drehle
Atonement, by: Ian McEwan
Cookbooks, by: various
Two Little Girls: A Memoir of Adoption, by: Theresa Reid
Snowflower and the Secret Fan, by: Lisa See
Mirror, Mirror, by: Gregory Maguire
Water for Elephants, by: Sara Gruen
A Christmas Carol, by: Charles Dickens
2008
The Master Butchers’ Singing Club, by: Louise Erdrich
Heart of a Woman, by: Maya Angelou
Daughter of Fortune, by: Isabel Allende
The Native Returns, by:
Talk, Talk, by: T. C. Boyle
When the Emperor was Devine, by: Julie Otsuka
Bastard out of Carolina, by: Dorothy Allison
Mutant Message From Down Under, by: Marlo Morgan
The Sound of Butterflies, by: Rachael King
Lucky Jim, by: Kingsley Amis
The Blood of Flowers, by: Anita Amirrezvani
In God we Trust, all Others Pay Cash, by: Jean Shepherd
2009
The Undomestic Goddess, by: Sophie Kinsella
March, by: Geraldine Brooks
The Pact, by: Jodi Picoult
Middlesex, by: Jeffery Eugenides
The Company Car, by: C. J. Hribal
The Other Boleyn Girl, by: Philippa Gregory
The Boy Who Dared, by: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Yesterday’s Weather, by: Anne Enright
A Woman in Amber: Healing the trauma of War and Exile, by: Agate Nesaule
The Book Thief, by: Markus Zusak
Loving Frank, by: Nancy Horan
The Christmas Train, by: David Baldacci
2010
Little Earthquakes, by: Jennifer Weiner
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by: Brady Udall
The Shipping News, by: Annie Proulx
The Known World, by: Edward P. Jones
My Year of Meats, by: Ruth Ozeki
Moon tiger, by: Penelope Lively
On Chesil Beach, by: Ian McEwan
Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant, by: Anne Tyler
Knitting, by: Anne Bartlett
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by: Shirley Jackson
Easter Island, by: Jennifer Vanderbes
Julie & Julia, My Year of Cooking Dangerously by: Julie Powell
2011
It Takes More Than a Chef, by: Wave Kasprzak
The Museum of Innocence, by: Orhan Pamuk
This Is Where I Leave You, by: Jonathan Tropper
Fool, by: Christopher Moore
Driftless, by: David Rhodes
The Invisible Mountain, by: Carolina De Robertis
Saving Ceecee Honeycutt, by: Beth Hoffman
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by: Helen Simonson
The Year of the Flood, by: Margaret Atwood
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, by: Robert Lewis Stevenson
A Reliable Wife, by: Robert Goolrick
Whishin’and Hopin’, by: Wally Lamb
2012
Freedom, by: Jonathan Franzen
I Remember Nothing, by: Nora Ephron
The Splendor of Silence, by: Indu Sundaresan
Map of the World, by: Jane Hamilton
You Know When the Men are Gone, by: Siobhan Fallon
Saturday, by: Ian McEwan
One Day, by: Davis Nicholls
Orange is the New Black: My year in a Woman’s Prison, by: Piper Kerman
The Tiger’s Wife, by: Tea Obreht
The Invisible Man, by: H. G. Wells
The Bird Sisters, by: Rebecca Rasmussen
The Shepherd, the Angel & Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog, by: Dave Barry
2013
Defending Jacob, by: William Landay
The Odds: a Love Story, by: Stewart O’Nan
End of Your Life Book Club, by: Will Schwalbe
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by: Rebecca Skloot
Cannery Row, by: John Steinbeck
Shanghai Girls, by: Lisa See
Jane Eyre, by: Charlotte Bronte
In the Shadow of the Banyan, by: Vaddey Ratner
Sam Miguel, by: T. C. Boyle
Night Strangers, by: Chris Bohjalian
The Round House, by: Louise Erdrich
A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by: Dylan Thomas
2014
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems edited by Caroline Kennedy
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Art of Racing in the Rain By Garth Stein
Until I Say Good -Bye: My Year Of Living With Joy by Susan Spencer-Wendel
Little Wolves by Thomas James Maltman
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
This Year Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury by Maeve Binchy
2015
The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwartz
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Almost Moon by Alice Seibold
The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell
The All Girls Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fanny Flagg
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Mockingbird Next Door by Maja Milks
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
2016
Tamarack River Ghost by Jerry Apps
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Goldfinch by Donna Tratt
The Dressmaker of Khair Khama By Gayle Lemmon Tzemach
These is My Words by Nancy Turner
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
The Call by Yannic Murphy
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Four Midwestern Sister’s Christmas Book by Holly Burkhalter
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Staff & Board
2017
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
When Breath Becomes Air By Paul Kalanithi
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Missing Kennedy by Elizabeth Kohler-Penticoff
Woman in Red by Eileen Gouge
Dog Years by Ann Garvin
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Christmas Past by Sharon McCrumb