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2006-07 Reading List

  • Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
  • Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahini
  • Hummingbird's Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Marley and Me - John Grogan
  • Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
  • Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
  • Strange Piece of Paradise - Terri Jentz
  • Lipstick Jihad - Azadeh Moaveni
  • You're Wearing That? - Deborah Tannen

2005-06 Reading List

  • Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
  • Runaway: stories - Alice Munro
  • My Invented Country - Isabel Allende
  • Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
  • World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
  • Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  • Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

2004-05 Reading List

  • Bel Canto - Ann Patchet
  • Had a Good Time: stories from American Postcards - Robert Olen Butler
  • My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
  • Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: testimonies from our imprisoned sisters - Wally Lamb
  • Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
  • Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

2003-04 Reading List

  • Master Butcher Singing Club - Louise Erdrich
  • Seven Sisters - Margaret Drabble
  • Roscoe - William Kennedy
  • Seabiscuit: an American legend - Laura Hillenbrand
  • Noah's Garden - Sara Stein
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  • Secret Life of Bees - Susan Monk Kidd

2002-03 Reading List

  • No Great Mischief - Alistair Macleod
  • Desirable Daughters - Bharati Mukherjee
  • Lazy B: growing up on a cattle ranch in the American southwest - Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Mistress of Spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Botany of Desire: a plant's eye view of the world - Michael Pollan
  • The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer

2001-02 Reading List

  • The Toughest Indian in the World - Sherman Alexie
  • Dress Lodger - Sheri Holman
  • Staying Tuned: a life in journalism - Daniel Schorr
  • Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
  • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
  • Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund
  • Tender at the Bone - Ruth Reichl

2000-01 Reading List

  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
  • The Rector's Wife - Joanna Trollope
  • Way Through the Woods - Colin Dexter
  • Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Hours - Michael Cunningham
  • Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
  • Banyan Tree - Kathleen Thompson

1999-00 Reading List

  • Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  • Red Tent - Anita Diamant
  • A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
  • Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
  • Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
  • East of the Mountains - David Guterson
  • Shadow of Desire - Rebecca Stowe

1998-99 Reading List

  • Antelope Wife - Louise Erdrich
  • Crash Diet - Jill McCorkle
  • Final Vinyl Days - Jill McCorkle
  • Ship Fever - Andrea Barrett
  • Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
  • White Hotel - D. M. Thomas
  • Are You Somebody: the accidental memoir of a Dublin woman - Nuala O'Faolain
  • Hardball for Women Winning at the Game of Business - Pat Heim
  • Paradise - Toni Morrison

1997-98 Reading List

  • Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George
  • Aramis, or the Love of Technology - Bruno Latour (think we changed to different book, but can't remember what)
  • Yo - Julia Alvarez
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
  • Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - Mary Pipher
  • Any title by Anita Brookner
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride

1996-97 Reading List

  • Romance Reader - Pearl Abraham
  • Her Excellency: An Oral History of American Women Ambassadors - Ann Miller Morin
  • Be I whole - Gita Brown
  • Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
  • In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
  • Until We Meet Again : A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust - Michael Korenblit and Kathleen Janger
  • Amazon Story Bones - Ellen Frye
  • American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

1995-96 Reading List

  • Possession - A. S. Byatt
  • Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
  • Shipping News - Annie Proulx
  • Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
  • How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
  • Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
  • Ladder of Years - Anne Tyler

1994-95 Reading List

  • The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  • The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
  • Emma - Jane Austen
  • Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
  • Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
  • Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Having our Say: the Delany Sisters' first 100 years - Sarah L. and Elizabeth Delany
  • Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus - John Gray
  • What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know - John Gray
  • House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
  • Disturbances in the Field - Lynn Sharon Schwatz

1993-94 Reading List

  • Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
  • A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  • Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
  • Girl Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
  • Skinwalkers - Tony Hillerman
  • Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  • Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
  • Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Owen Butler

1992-93 Reading List

  • Backlash - Susan Faludi
  • Fools Crow - James Welch
  • Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
  • Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  • Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
  • Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahoody
  • Yellow Raft in Blue Water - Michael Dorris
  • Burning Season: the murder of Chico Mendes & the fight for the Amazon Rain Forest - Andrew Revkin

1991-92 Reading List

  • The Man Who Killed the Deer - Frank Waters
  • Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
  • Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro
  • Brief Lives - Anita Brookner
  • Hotel DeLac - Anita Brookner
  • Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton
  • Calling Home: working class women's writing, an anthology - Janet Zandy

1990-91 Reading List

  • Cloning of Joanna May - Fay Weldon
  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
  • September - Rosamunde Pilcher
  • Because It Is Bitter & Because It Is My Heart - Joyce Carol Oates
  • Black-eyed Susans/Midnight birds: stories by and about Black women - Mary HelenWashington, ed.
  • Tracks - Louise Erdrich
  • Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez


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