Little book club

1999

Esperanza’s Box of Saints: A Novel
by: Maria Amparo Escandon
publisher: Touchstone, released: January 14, 1999

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by: Daniel Quinn
publisher: Bantam, released: July 1, 1995

The Pilot’s Wife
by: Anita Shreve
publisher: Back Bay Books, released: March 31, 1999

How the Irish Saved Civilization
by: Thomas Cahill
publisher: Anchor, released: February 1, 1996

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by: Anne Fadiman
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, released: September 28, 1998

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
by: James McBride
publisher: Riverhead Trade, released: February 1, 1997

2000

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: October 1, 1995

Middle Heart
by: Inc. Bette Bao Lord Enterprises
publisher: Ballantine Books, released: July 14, 1997

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by: Tony Horwitz
publisher: Vintage, released: February 22, 1999

I Know This Much Is True
by: Wally Lamb
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: May 1, 1999

Where the Heart Is
by: Billie Letts
publisher: Grand Central Publishing, released: June 1, 1998

A Map of the World
by: Jane Hamilton
publisher: Anchor, released: December 3, 1999

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
by: Kary Mullis
publisher: Vintage, released: January 4, 2000

Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
by: Isabel Allende
publisher: HarperTorch, released: November 1, 2001

2001

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by: Stephen Ambrose
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: June 2, 1997

House of Sand and Fog
by: Andre Dubus III
publisher: Vintage, released: March 1, 2000

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by: Dava Sobel
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: November 1, 2000

Chocolat
by: Joanne Harris
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: November 1, 2000

Corelli’s Mandolin: A Novel
by: Louis De Bernieres
publisher: Vintage, released: August 29, 1995

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
by: Simon Winchester
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: August, 1999

The Red Tent
by: Anita Diamant
publisher: Picador, released: September 15, 1998

Letters from Yellowstone
by: Diane Smith
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: June 1, 2000

2002

Personal History
by: Katharine Graham
publisher: Vintage, released: February 24, 1998

Girl with a Pearl Earring
by: Tracy Chevalier
publisher: Plume, released: January 8, 2001

When We Were Orphans: A Novel
by: Kazuo Ishiguro
publisher: Vintage, released: October 30, 2001

Fall On Your Knees
by: Ann-Marie MacDonald
publisher: Touchstone, released: January, 2002

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by: Michael Chabon
publisher: Picador, released: August 25, 2001

Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel
by: Sena Jeter Naslund
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: October 1, 2000

The Road from Coorain
by: Jill Ker Conway
publisher: Vintage, released: August 11, 1990

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
by: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
publisher: Vintage, released: June 4, 1991

Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by: Laura Hillenbrand
publisher: Random House, released: March 6, 2001

2003

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana
by: Haven Kimmel
publisher: Broadway, released: September, 2002

Empire Falls
by: Richard Russo
publisher: Vintage, released: April 12, 2002

Atonement: A Novel
by: Ian McEwan
publisher: Anchor, released: February 25, 2003

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
by: Michael Pollan
publisher: Random House, released: May 8, 2001

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by: Dave Eggers
publisher: Vintage, released: February 13, 2001

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by: Geraldine Brooks
publisher: Anchor, released: December 1, 1995

The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel
by: Chris Bohjalian
publisher: Vintage, released: February 25, 2003

Bee Season: A Novel
by: Myla Goldberg
publisher: Anchor, released: May 15, 2001

The Piano Tuner: A Novel
by: Daniel Mason
publisher: Vintage, released: August 19, 2003

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by: Tony Horwitz
publisher: Picador, released: August 1, 2003

2004

Three Junes
by: Julia Glass
publisher: Anchor, released: April, 2003

Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by: Augusten Burroughs
publisher: Picador, released: June 1, 2003

Life of Pi
by: Yann Martel
publisher: Harvest Books, released: May 1, 2003

The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by: Jerome Groopman
publisher: Random House, released: December 23, 2003

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by: Azar Nafisi
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, released: December 30, 2003

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by: Mark Haddon
publisher: Vintage, released: May 18, 2004

The Time Traveler’s Wife
by: Audrey Niffenegger
publisher: Harvest Books, released: May 27, 2004

Granny D: You’re Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell
by: Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke
publisher: Villard, released: April 8, 2003

2005

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
by: Dawn Phd Prince-Hughes
publisher: Harmony, released: March 9, 2004

The Known World: A Novel
by: Edward P. Jones
publisher: Amistad, released: June 1, 2004

The Kite Runner
by: Khaled Hosseini
publisher: Riverhead Trade, released: April 27, 2004

My Sister’s Keeper: A Novel
by: Jodi Picoult
publisher: Washington Square Press, released: February 1, 2005

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by: Queen Noor
publisher: Miramax, released: March 9, 2005

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by: Jared M. Diamond
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, released: April 1, 1999

The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel
by: Karen Joy Fowler
publisher: Plume, released: April 26, 2005

The Bookseller of Kabul
by: Asne Seierstad
publisher: Back Bay Books, released: October 26, 2004

2006

The Bookseller of Kabul
by: Asne Seierstad
publisher: Back Bay Books, released: October 26, 2004

Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by: Eleanor Herman
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: April 1, 2005

The Children’s Blizzard
by: David Laskin
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: October 1, 2005

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by: Gregory Maguire
publisher: Harper Paperbacks, released: November 6, 1996

Gilead: A Novel
by: Marilynne Robinson
publisher: Picador, released: January 10, 2006

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by: Malcolm Gladwell
publisher: Little, Brown and Company, released: January 11, 2005

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by: Jonathan Safran Foer
publisher: Mariner Books, released: April 4, 2006

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by: Michael Pollan
publisher: Penguin Press HC, The, released: April 11, 2006

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
by: Kim Edwards
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: May 30, 2006

2007

A Short History of Nearly Everything
by: Bill Bryson
publisher: Broadway, released: September 14, 2004

Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel
by: Amy Tan
publisher: Ballantine Books, released: September 26, 2006

The Year of Magical Thinking
by: Joan Didion
publisher: Knopf, released: October 4, 2005

The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by: Jeannette Walls
publisher: Scribner, released: January 9, 2006

The Namesake: A Novel
by: Jhumpa Lahiri
publisher: Mariner Books, released: September 1, 2004

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: January 30, 2007

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
by: Luis Alberto Urrea
publisher: Back Bay Books, released: September 19, 2005

The Shadow of the Wind
by: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: February 1, 2005

2008

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by: Clea Koff
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, released: February 8, 2005

Water for Elephants: A Novel
by: Sara Gruen
publisher: Algonquin Books, released: April 9, 2007

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
publisher: HarperCollins, released: May 1, 2007

Love in the Time of Cholera
by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
publisher: Vintage Books, released: October 30, 2007