Books currently in circulation at our monthly meetings
(in no particular order)

List revised on January 16, 2012
* indicates Stamp of Approval Contender

Border Songs by Jim Lynch

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel

The Ice Road by Stefan Waydenfeld

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates

Nemesis by Philip Roth

Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dalva by Jim Harrison

The House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre

Home Land by Sam Lipsyte

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates

Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman

The Pursuit of Other Interests by Jim Kokoris

Little Face by Sophie Hannah

Carry Me Home by Sandra Kring

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates

A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

South of Superior by Ellen Airgood

Falling Leaves by Addine Yen Mah

The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins (Young Adult)

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin

Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

I, Roger Williams by Mary Lee Settle

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

The Worst Thing I’ve Done by Ursula Hegi

The Midwife’s Confession by Diane Chamberlain

In Buddha’s Kitchen by Kimberly Snow

Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg

The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens

The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt

The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

The World Below by Sue Miller

Ape House by Sara Gruen

*Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman

The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Bound by Sally Gunning

The Secret Life of the Middle-Aged Brain by Barbara Strauch

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

Amy and Isabelle by  Elizabeth Strout

The Best of Friends by Joanna Trollope

The Word That You Heard by Jan Stafford Kellis

More of this World or Maybe Another by Barbara Johnson

Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

*Day After Night by Anita Diamant

Next scheduled meeting: February 11, 2012

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 (9-12-2010)
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

Incediary by Chris Cleave (7-10-2011)

Little Bee by Chris Cleave (4-17-2011

The Loop by Joe Coomer
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Room by Emma Donaghue (11-20-2011)

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

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford (09-18-2011)

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Left Neglected by Lisa Genova (12-18-2011)

Still Alice by Lisa Genova (10-17-2010)
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

The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald (6-12-2011)

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
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
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

Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens (02-14-2011)

In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
On the Divinity of Second Chances by Kaya McLaren (9-12-2010)
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 Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell  (04-17-11)
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
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (9-12-2010)
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

The Help by Katherine Stockett (10-23-11)

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 Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall (6-12-2011)

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Lottery by Patricia Wood
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

 
It takes a long time to grow a book;
one must possess an obstinate persistence
 and abandon certain essentials of civilized society, such as clothes and grooming.