Books currently in circulation at our monthly meetings
(in no particular order)
List revised on June 20, 2010
* indicates Stamp of Approval Contender

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

More of this World or Maybe Another by Barbara Johnson

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta

A Separate Country by Robert Hicks

Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens

Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian

Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

Service Included by Phoebe Damrosch

Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman

Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Having Our Say by the Delaney Sisters

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Between Here & April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Wit's End by Karen Fowler
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
*Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
The Art of Racing in the Rain by  Garth Stein
The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik
*Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Crazy Ladies by Michael Lee West
Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
Chantepleure by Linda Robinson
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
*Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
*That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
*People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Bookworms Anonymous by Jan Stafford Kellis


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Books Awarded the Bookworms Anonymous Stamp of Approval:
(in alphabetical order by author's last name; date is listed on books added after book was printed )

Saving the World by Julia Alverez
Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Loop by Joe Coomer
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Turtle Warrior by Mary Ellis
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The Painted DrumI by Louise Erdrich
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Charms For An Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
A Painted House by John Grisham
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Marc Haddon
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris
The Road Home by Jim Harrison
Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kegan
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (4-18-2010)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
It Takes a Village Idiot by Jim Mullen
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Run by Ann Patchett
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Lucy Crocker 2.0 by Caroline Preston
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Unless by Carol Shields
The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Lottery by Patricia Wood
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

 
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