Olean Public Library Brown Bag Book Club
Around the World Complete ReadingList
July 2006--Present
*Meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month in the ArtGallery*
July 2006—January 1901 to May 1910, London, England
Title: Falling Angels
Author: Chevalier, Tracy
Call Number: FIC Chevalier
Publisher: Plume, 2002
Description: 336 p.
August 2006—Mid-1980s, Sri Lanka
Title: Anil’s Ghost
Author: Ondaatje, Michael
Call Number: FICOndaatje
Publisher: Vintage, 2001
Description: 307 p.
September 2006–Present Day, Japan
Title: All She was Worth
Author: Miyabe, Miyuki
Call Number: MYS Miyabe
Publisher: Kodansha International, 1996
Description: 296 p.
October 2006---Spring 2002, Afghanistan
Title: The Bookseller of Kabul
Author: Seierstad, Asne
Call Number: 958.1 S
Publisher: Little, Brown, 2003
Description: 287 p.
November 2006---Present Day, Holt, Colorado, United States of America
Title: Plainsong
Author: Haruf, Kent.
Call Number: FIC Haruf
Publisher: A.A. Knopf, 1999
Description: 301 p.
December 2006---Present Day, Amtrak Trains between WashingtonDCLos Angeles, CA, USA
Title: The Christmas Train
Author: Baldacci, David.
Call Number: FIC Baldacci
Publisher: Warner Books, 2002
Description: 260 p.
January 2007---1997,Harare, Zimbabwe
Title: Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
Author: Tucker, Neely
Call Number: 362.734 T
Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2005
Description: 242 p.
February 2007---15th-century, Florence, Italy
Title: The Birth of Venus
Author: Dunant, Sarah
Call Number: FIC Dunant
Publisher: Random House, 2003
Description: 397 p.
March 2007—Present Day, Antarctica
Title: The Brief History of the Dead
Author: Brockmeier, Kevin
Call Number: FIC Brockmeirer
Publisher: Pantheon Books, 2006
Description: 252 p.
April 2007—Present Day, Ontario, Canada
Title: CrowLake
Author: Mary Lawson
Call Number: FIC Lawson
Publisher: Dial Press, 2002
Description: 304 p.
May 2007—1940, Hungary
Title: Embers
Author: Marai, Sandor
Call Number: FIC Marai
Publisher: Vintage, 2002
Description: 224 p.
June 2007—1970’s, China
Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Author: Sijie, Dai
Call Number: FIC Sijie
Publisher: Anchor, 2002
Description: 192 p.
July 2007—1896, WashingtonState to New York City, USA
Title: Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk across Victorian America
Author: Hunt, Linda Lawrence
Call Number: 973.87 H
Publisher: Anchor, 2005
Description: 336 p.
August 2007---1806, New South Wales, Australia
Title: The SecretRiver
Author: Grenville, Kate
Call Number: FIC Grenville
Publisher: Canongate, US, 2005
Description: 352 p.
September 2007--- 1918, Commonwealth, Washington, USA
Title: The LastTown on Earth
Author: Mullen, Thomas
Call Number: FIC Mullen
Publisher: Random House, 2006
Description: 416 p.
October 2007--- 1942, Rudrakot, India
Title: The Splendor of Silence
Author: Sundaresan, Indu
Call Number: FIC Sundaresan
Publisher: Atria, 2006
Description: 426 p.
November 2007—1990s, Bristol, England
Title: Drowning in Honey
Author: Hatfield, Kate
Call Number FIC Hatfield
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1995
Description: 348 p.
December 2007—1950’s,Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Title: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Author: Bryson, Bill
Call Number: BIO Bryson
Publisher: Broadway, 2006
Description: 288 p.
January 2008---1921, Southern Ireland
Title: The Story of Lucy Gault
Author: Trevor, William
Call Number: FIC Trevor
Publisher: Viking, 2002
Description: 288 p.
February 2008---Present Day, South Africa
Title: The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
Author: Zoellner, Tom
Call Number: 552.82 Z
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, 2006
Description: 304 p.
March 2008—1940, Molching, Germany
Title: The Book Thief
Author: Zusak, Markus
Call Number: FIC Zusak
Publisher: Knof Books, 2006
Description: 560 p.
April 2008—1916, Hue,Vietnam
Title: The Tapestries
Author: Nguyen, Kien
Call Number: FIC Nguyen
Publisher: Little Brown Press, 2002
Description: 320 p.
May 2008—Present Day, South America
Title: Bel Canto
Author: Patchett, Ann
Call Number: FIC Patchett
Publisher: Harper Collins, 2001
Description: 336 p.
June 2008—Present Day, Idaho, USA
Title: Five Skies
Author: Carlson, Ron
Call Number: FIC Carlson
Publisher: Viking, 2007
Description: 256 p.
July 2008---1938, Tarumi, Japan
Title: The Samurai's Garden
Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
Call Number: FIC Tsukiyama
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1996
Description: 224 p.
August 2008—1976, Los Angeles, CA & 1815 Maryland
Title: Kindred
Author: Butler, Octavia
Call Number: FIC Butler
Publisher: Beacon Press, 2004
Description: 287 p.
September 2008—Present Day, Harmonyville, Pennsylvania
Title: Runaway Grandma
Author: McCauley, Ann
Call Number: FIC McCauley
Publisher: Madison Avenue, 2007
Description: 212 p.
October 2008---1620’s, Iran
Title: The Blood of the Flowers
Author: Amirrezvani, Anita
Call Number: FIC Amirrezvani
Publisher: Little Brown and Company, 2007
Description: 377 p.
November 2008—Present Day, Orvieto, Italy
Title: The Lady in the Palazzo: at Home in Umbria
Author: De Blasi, Marlena
Call Number: 945.652 D
Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2006
Description: 317 p.
December 2008—1886, England
Title: Silent in the Grave
Author: Raybourn, Deanna
Call Number: FIC Raybourn
Publisher: Mira, 2007
Description: 512 p.
January 2009---1918, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Title: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Author: Alexander, Robert
Call Number: FIC Alexander
Publisher: Viking, 2003
Description: 240 p.
February 2009---Present Day, Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Author: Haddon, Mark
Call Number: FIC Haddon
Publisher: Doubleday, 2003
Description: 240 p.
March 2009— Present day-- Caribbean Island of Dominica
Title: Unburnable
Author: John, Marie-elena
Call Number: FIC John
Publisher: Amistead, 2006
Description: 304 p.
April 2009—1915, OntarioCanada
Title: Three Day Road
Author: Boyden, Joseph
Call Number: FIC Boyden
Publisher: Viking, 2005
Description: 368 p.
May 2009——1880, Paris, France
Title: Luncheon of the Boating Party
Author: Vreeland, Susan
Call Number: FIC Vreeland
Publisher: Harper Collins, 2001
Description: 336 p.
June 2009—1940, Madrid, Spain
Title: Winter in Madrid
Author: Sansom, C.J.
Call Number: FIC Sansom
Publisher: Viking, 2008
Description: 544 p.
July 2009---1938, Tarumi, Japan
Title: Water for Elephants
Author: Gruen, Sarah
Call Number: FIC Tsukiyama
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007
Description: 224 p.
July 2009---1931 & present day United States of America
Title: Water for Elephants
Author: Gruen, Sara
Call Number: FIC Gruen
Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2007
Description: 350 p.
August 2009— Present day southern United States of America
Title: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Author: Horwitz, Tony
Call Number: 973.7 H
Publisher: Vintage, 1999
Description: 432 p.
September 2009---Present Day, Clarence, Minnesota
Title: Spilling Clarence
Author: Ursu, Anne
Call Number: FIC Ursu
Publisher: Hyperion, 2003
Description: 304 p.
October 2009—1930s Hong Kong to Present Day Manchester, England
Title: Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations
Of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West
Author: Tse, Helen
Call Number: BIO Tse
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008
Description: 288 p.
November 2009— Constantinople during the reign of Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD)
Title: One for Sorrow: A John the Eunuch Mystery
Authors: Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
Call Number: MYS Reed
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2000
Description: 288 p.
December 2009— Present day Russia & England
Title: The Road Home
Author: Tremain, Rose
Call Number: FIC Tremain
Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2009
Description: 432 p.
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