Books for Group Discussion

Current Favorites

Jim the Boy by Tony Early

Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Plain Song by Kent Haruf

A Girl named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Long-term Favorites

Authors

Berg, Elizabeth

Davies, Robertson: all! especially Deptford Trilogy

Doig, Ivan:

Grafton, Sue (mysteries)

Jance, J.J. (mysteries)

Kingsolver, Barbara (High Tides in Tucson non-fiction is worth a look)

Quindlen, Anna

Shute, Neville

Thirkell, Angela: all of her Barsetshire novels.

Tyler, Ann

Titles

Albom, Mitch: Tuesdays With Morrie

Aldrich, Bess Streeter: A Lantern in Her Hand

Byatt, A.S.: Possession

Clark, Mary Higgins: Where Are the Children?

Clark, Kenneth: Civilization

Clavell, James: Tai-Pai

Dickens, Charles: The Pickwick Papers

Faulkner, William: Sartoris

Follett, Ken: Eye of the Needle

Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha

Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars

Hamilton, Jane : The Book of Ruth

Hoffman, Alice: Turtle Moon

Janes, Helen Mac: Assignment in Brittany

Janson, H.W.: History of Art

Lamb, Wally: This Much is True

Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird

Letts, Billy: Honk and Holler, Opening Soon

McCourt, Frank: Angela's Ashes

McKenna, Richard: The Sand Pebbles

Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind

Rhodes, Richard: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Sheldon, Sidney: The Other Side of Midnight

Spyri, Johanna: Heidi

Stewart, Mary: My Brother Michael

Twain, Mark: Life on the Mississippi

Voigt, Cynthia: The Wings of the Falcon

Walker, Alice: The Color Purple

Wells, Rebecca :Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Woodham, Cecil: The Great Hunger