Noon Hour Book Group Archive

2012-13 Reading List

• Clara and Mr. Tiffany - Susan Vreeland
• Jeremiah's Hunger - Elizabeth Osta
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
• Gypsy Boy - Mikey Walsh
• Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
• Joy for Beginners - Erica Bauermeister
• Mighty Be Our Powers - Leymah Gbowee
• Dearie - Bob Spitz

2011-12 Reading List

• Summer in a Glass - Evan Dawson
• Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
• Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin
• The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
• Prayers for Sale - Sandra Dallas
• Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
• The Journal Keeper - Phyllis Theroux
• Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

2010-11 Reading List

• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
• The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
• In the Shadow of the Cypress - Thomas Steinbeck
• The Lives of the Muses: Nine women & the artists they inspired - Francine Prose
• Wildwater Walking Club - Claire Cook
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

2009-10 Reading List

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
• Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
• In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
• Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
• Outliers: the story of success - Malcolm Gladwell

2008-09 Reading List

• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Husseini
• Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penny
• Deep Economy - Bill McKibben
• Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Home, a memoir of my early years - Julie Andrews
• Dewey, the small town library cat who touched the world - Vivki Myron
• A Good Indian Wife - Anne Cherian
• Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

2007-08 Reading List

• Ghost Map - Steven Johnson
• Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 
• I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron
• Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas
• Left to Tell - Immaculée Ilibagiza 
• Water for Elephant - Sara Gruen
• Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton 
• Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguez    

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

• 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

• 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