Looking for a great read?

Try these choices from the ‘Monday Evening Adult Book Club’

 2012:  Red Queen - Phillipa Gregory

           Mutiny on the Bounty - John Boyne

2011: Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
         Englishman's Boy - Guy Vanderhaeghe

         Spirit Gifting - Elmer Ghostkeeper

         Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs

         One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus

         Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

               Plus Bonus June Book - 'Whistling Season' - Ivan Doig

          Double Bind - Christopher Bohjalian

          Scarlet Feather - Maeve Binchy  (meeting on 3rd Monday - April 18)

          Last Night on Twisted River - John Irving

          The Road - Cormac McCarthy

           Cover Her Face - P.D. James

2010: 

Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill

Illegally Dead - Joan Donalson-Yarmey

Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picolt

Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen

Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver

When the Lion Feeds – Wilbur Smith

Obasan – Koy Kogawa

Turtle Valley – Gail Anderson-Dargatz

The Day the Falls Stood Still – Cathy Marie Buchanan

Late Nights on Air – Elizabeth Hay

No Great Mischief – Alistair MacLeod

2009:

Paris 1919 – Margaret MacMillan

Clara Callan – Richard Bruce Wright

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons – Lorna Landvik

Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Woman’s Place – Lynn Austin

A Perfect Grave – Rick Mofina

Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

A Breach of Promise – Anne Perry

Ragged Company – Richard Wagamese

Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky

Virgin’s Lover – Phillipa Gregory

Peace like a River – Leif Enger

2008:

I am Hutterite – Mary-Ann Kirkby

Chocolat – Joanne Harris

Memory Keepers Daughter – Kim Edwards

Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield

Weight of Water – Anita Shreve

Green Mile – Stephen King

Audience of Chairs – Joan Clark

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Three Junes – Julia Glass

A Good Man – Judith Henry Wall

Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan

No 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith

2007:

Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls

Lullabies for Little Criminals – Heather O’Neill

Second Life of Samuel Tyne – Esi Edugyan

If my Father Loved Me – Rosie Thomas

Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Mermaid Chair – Sue Monk Kidd

Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan

The Birth House – Ami McKay

Kill Me – Stephen White

The Girls – Lori Lansens

Teacher Man – Frank McCourt

2006:

          Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

          Sweetness in the Belly – Camilla Gibb

          Bright Forever – Lee Martin

          Life of Pi – Yann Martel

          Million Little Pieces – James Frey

          A Complicated Kindness – Miriam Toews

          The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks

          House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubois III

          Playing for the Ashes – Elizabeth George

          Alphabet Sisters – Monica McInerney

          Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracey Chevalier

          Paradise Acres – Molly Ann Warring

          O’Hara’s choice – Leon Uris

2005:

          Silver Bells, A Holiday Tale – Luanne Rice

          Hatbox Letters – Mary Beth Powning

          Kit’s Law – Donna Morrissey

          Four Souls – Louise Erdrich

          Angels & Demons – Dan Brown

          A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

          Rottweiler – Ruth Rendell

          Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

          Stone Carvers – Jane Urquhart

          Last Crossing – Guy Vanderhaeghe

          My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult

2004:

          Kalyna’s Song – Lisa Grekul

          Avalon – Anya Seaton

          Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

          Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

          Annunciation of Francesca Dunn – Janis Hallowell

          Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

          Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

          Crow Lake – Mary Lawson

          Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson

          Piano Mans Daughter – Timothy Findley

          Not Guilty – Patricia MacDonald

          Way the Crow Flies – Ann-Marie MacDonald

2003:

          Sea Glass – Anita Shreve

          Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

          Good House – Bonnie Burnard

          Potter’s House – Rosie Thomas

          Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

          Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

          Red Tent – Anita Diamant

          Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

          Unless – Carol Shields       (Feb /03)