Less Than Literary Bookclub -- Reading List

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Jan Knute Mistriss of the Art of Death Ariana Franklin
2008 Dec Debbie None n/a
Nov Charlie The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
Oct BF Texas Praries can't remember
Sep David Short Stories John Cheever
Aug Patrice Eat, Love and Pray Elizabeth Gilbert
Jul Steve Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Jun Daphne Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
May Jonathan The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
Apr Bill The Last Song of Dusk Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Mar Kathy Neuromancer William Gibson
Feb Linelle Everyman Philip Roth
Jan Rex The Road Cormac McCarthy

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2007 Dec Debbie None n/a
Nov Charlie The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls
Oct Steve The Crucible Arthur Miller
Sep Jonathan Wild at Heart Barry Gifford
Aug David A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Conner
Jul Patrice Purity of Blood Aurturo Perez-Reverte
Jun Daphne Middlesex Jeffery Eugenides
May Kathy Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov
Apr Bill Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Mar Knute Ordinary Heroes Scott Turrow
Feb BF Lasting Attachments Annette Sanford
Jan Linelle Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
2006 Dec Debbie None n/a
Nov Charlie Home Grown Democrat Garrison Keillor
Oct Rex The Stranger Albert Camus
Sep Jonathan Young Adam Alexandria Trocchi
Aug David The Yellow Admiral Patrick O'Brien
Jul Patrice Pompeii Robert Harris
Jun Knute Rose Martin Cruz Smith
May Kathy Love, Again Doris Lessing
Apr BF Botany of Desire Michael Pollan
Mar Bill The Color of Water James McBride
Feb Daphne The Widow of the South Robert Hicks
Jan Kevin Snow Orhan Pamuk

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2005 Dec Rex None n/a
Nov Charlie Lord Vishnu's Love Handles Will Clarke
Oct Linelle The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Sep Bill The Girl Who Played Go Shan Sa
Aug David Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris A.J. Liebling
Jul Knute The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Jun Patrice Reading Lolita in Teheran Azar Nafisi
May BF The Seville Communion Arturo Perez-Reverte
Apr Jonathan Bay of Souls Robert Stone
Mar Debbie Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
Feb Daphne The Master Butchers Singing Club Louise Erdrich
Jan Kathy The Inner Circle T. Coraghessan Boyle
2004 Nov/Dec Rex None n/a
Oct Charlie Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign … Shelby Foote
Sep Linelle The Known World Edward P. Jones
Aug David Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jul Daphne After The Quake Haruki Murakami
Jun Debbie Three Junes Julia Glass
May Jonathan Lightning on the Sun Robert Bingham
Apr Bill Life of Pi Yann Martel
Mar BF Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith
Feb Kathy Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal
Jan Knute The Dream of Scipio Iain Pears

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2003 Nov Charlie Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
Oct Rex Benjamin Franklin : An American Life Walter Isaacson
Sep Jim Uncle Tungsten, Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Oliver Sacks
Aug David Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish Richard Flanagan
Jul Patrice Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths Bruce Feiler
Jun Daphne Bel Canto Ann Patchett
May Larkin Losing Battles Eudora Welty
Mar Kathy Love is a Wild Assault Elithe Hamilton Kirkland
Feb Linelle The Gardens of Kyoto Kate Walbert
Jan Debbie Atonement Ian McEwan
2002 Nov BF An Equal Music Vikram Seth
Oct Charlie Lake Woebegone Days Garrison Keilor
Sep Rex Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Aug David Masters of Atlantis Charles Portis
Jul Bill Chasing Cesanne Peter Mayle
Jun Daphne Disgrace J.M. Coutzee
Apr Debbie Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
Mar Linelle The Corrections Joseph Franzen
Jan Kathy Fury Salmon Rushdie

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2001 Nov BF Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table Ruth Reichl
Oct Rex All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes Maya Angelou
Sep Patrice Night Elie Wiesel
Aug David The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
Jul Kathy In The Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
Jun Linelle The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri
May Charlie About a Boy Nick Hornby
Apr Kathryn The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Mar Larkin The Tempest William Sharkespeare
Feb Debbie Waiting Ha Jin
Jan Jim The Professor and the Madman … Oxford Eng. Dictionary
Simon Wenchester
2000 Nov BF Enduring Love Ian McEwan
Oct Bill The Sixteen Pleasures
Sep Linelle Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
Jul Debbie The Hours Michael Cunningham
Jun Rex Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland
May Charlie High Fidelity Nick Hornby
Apr Kathy Zombie Joyce Carol Oates
Mar Carolyn Macbeth William Sharkespeare
Feb Patrice Body & Soul Frank Conroy
Jan Daphne Starting Out in the Evening Brian Morton

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1999 Oct Larkin The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein
Sep Debbie The Reader Bernhard Schlink
Aug David Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic
Jul BF The Widow's Mite Ferrol Sams
Jun Kathryn Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road Anthony Weller
May Bill The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon Tom Spanbauer
Apr Linelle Possession A.S. Byatt
Mar Charlie Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
Feb Jim Primary Colors Anonymous
Jan Paula Dallas Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald
1998 Dec Bob A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
Nov BF The 2nd Scenes from Shakespeare
Oct Rex The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
Sep Kathy Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
Aug Daphne The Monkeywrench Gang Edward Abee
Jul David Aphrodite Isabelle Allende
Jun Kathryn Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
May Jim So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell
Apr Larkin Speak Memory Vladimir Nabokov
Mar Bill Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Feb Debbie Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Jan Patrice Night Elie Wiesel

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1997 Dec Bob A Child's Christmas in Wales Dylan Thomas
Nov Kathy No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin
Oct Paula Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells
Sep Rex The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Aug David The Wasteland T.S. Elliot
Jul Linelle Of Human Bondage Somerset Maughm
Jun BF A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There Aldo Leopold
May Kathryn Crossing the Post Modern Divide Albert Borgman
Apr Charlie Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
Feb Kathy The Liar's Club Mary Carr
Jan Daphne Snow Falling on Cedar David Guterson
1996 Dec Linelle Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
Nov Debbie In The Lake of the Woods Tim O'Brien
Oct Rex A Thousand Cranes Kawabata
Sep Patrice Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan
Aug Charlie Why Men Are Different ?
Jul Bill Little Altars Everywhere Rebecca Wells
Jun Jim Giants in the Earth Rolvaag
May Kathryn The Golden Gate Vikram Seth
Apr Larkin The Conquest of Mexico Bernal Diaz
Mar Vicki Let the Dog Drive David Bowman
Feb Bob Othello William Sharkespeare
Jan Jacques Jupiter's Travels Ted Simon

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1995 Nov BF As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
Oct Paula Old Songs in a New Café Robert Waller
Sep Vicki Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Aug Daphne Justine Lawrence Durrell
Jul Kathy The North China Lover Margaret Duras
Jun Debbie The Waterworks E.L. Doctorow
May Rex The Alienist Caleb Carr
Apr Linelle Shipping News Annie Proulx
Mar Kathryn Fifth Business Robertson Davies
Feb Jim Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
Jan David Dubliners James Joyce
1994 Dec Bob A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
Nov Patrice I Really Should Be Practicing Gary Graffman
Oct Bill Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
Sep Kathryn Montana 1948 Larry Watson
Aug ? The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe Jane Wagner
Jul Paula All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Jun Kathy A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
May BF/Larkin Shakespear Festival
Apr Linelle Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man Thomas Mann
Mar Jim A River Sutra Gita Mehta
Feb Francine The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
Jan David The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other …Oliver Sacks

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1993 Dec Rex Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquival
Nov Debbie One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oct Kathy Backlash Falundi
Aug Charlie Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller
BF A Year in Provence Peter Mayle
Jun Kathryn Cathedral Raymond Carver
May Coutu Beloved Toni Morrison
Apr Malouf Volcano Lover Susan Sontag
Mar Vroom Genius Gleick
Feb BF A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean
Jan Rex The Grass Harp Truman Capote
1992 Dec Debbie None
Oct Heideman Dracula Bram Stoker
Sep Barnes The Leopard DeLampedusa
Aug Patrice Time's Arrow Martin Amis
Jul Kathryn A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
May Mitlyng Mating Rush
Apr Charlie Iron John Robert Bly
Mar BF Antigone Sophocles
Feb Vroom Lila - An Inquiry into Morals Robert M. Pirsig
Jan Rex Their Eyes were Watching God Zora neale Hurston

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1991 Dec Duren Temptation Vaclav Havel
Sep Templeton The Lyre of Orpheus Robertson Davies
Jul Heideman The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
May Delipsey Lying Sissela Bok
Apr Rex The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice
Jan Armstrong The Last Living Confederate Widow Tells All Allan Gurganus
BF Legends of the Fall Jim Harrison
BF No Resting Place William Humphrey
Whitley Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris
1990 Dec Barnes Fathers and Sons Turgenyev
Nov Whitley Price and Prejudice Jane Austen
Oct Armstrong The Gods in All Men; The Goddess in All Women
Aug Mitlyng A Brief History of Time Steven Hawking
Jan Ribbeck Prince of Tides Pat Conroy
Allen Jitterburg Perfume Tom Robbins
Delipsey Mutation Cook
Malouf A Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
Rector At Play in the Fields of the Lord Mathisen
Keaton The End of Nature
Charlie We Robert Johnson
Crowe Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vroom The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell
1989 Jun Crowe In Cold Blood Truman Capote

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