Norma L. McLellan St. Anne’s Book Club

Past Selections through January 2018

Title / Author / Year – Month
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood / Wells, Rebecca / 2000 - February
Memoirs of a Geisha / Golden, Arthur / 2000 – March
Cold Mountain / Frazier, Charles / 2000 – April
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone / Rowling, J K / 2000 – May
Angela’s Ashes / McCourt, Frank / 2000 – June
Black and Blue / Quindlen, Anna / 2000 – July
The Pilot’s Wife / Shreve, Anita / 2000 – August
What Our Mothers Didn’t Us: Why Happiness … / Crittenden, Danielle / 2000 – September
A Prayer for Owen Meany / Irving, John / 2000 – October
Two from Galilee / Holmes, Marjorie / 2000 – November
Midwives / Bohjalian, Chris / 2001 – January
Tuesdays with Morrie / Albom, Mitch / 2001 – February
Fortune’s Rocks / Shreve, Anita / 2001 – March
The Red Tent / Diamant, Anita / 2001 – April
Operating Instructions AND
Traveling Mercies (2 books) / Lamott, Anne / 2001 – May
Poisonwood Bible / Kingsolver, Barbara / 2001 – June
Cold Sassy Tree / Burns, Olive Ann / 2001 – July
Reviving Ophelia / Pipher, Mary / 2001 – August
Pope Joan / Cross, Donna Woolfolk / 2001 – September
Under the Tuscan Sun / Mayes, Frances / 2001 – October
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / Lewis, C. S. / 2001 – November
Persian Pickle Club / Dallas, Sandra / 2002 – January
Girl With a Pearl Earring / Chevalier, Tracy / 2002 – February
The Ginger Tree / Wynd, Oswald / 2002 – March
Chocolat / Harris, Joanne / 2002 – April
The Handmaid’s Tale / Atwood, Margaret / 2002 – May

The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love

/ Browne, Jill Conner / 2002 – June
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire / Foreman, Amanda / 2002 – July

The Ladies Auxiliary

/ Mirvis, Tova / 2002 – August

The Corrections

/ Franzen, Jonathan / 2002 – September
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish … / Mogel, Wendy / 2002 – October
Skipping Christmas / Grisham, John / 2002 – November

The Nanny Diaries

/ McLaughlin & Kraus / 2003 – January

Lovely Bones

/ Sebold, Alice / 2003 – February

Fall On Your Knees

/ Macdonald, Ann-Marie / 2003 – March

A Year in Provence

/ Mayle, Peter / 2003 – April
A Voice in the Wind / Rivers, Francine / 2003 – May
The Secret Lives of Bees / Kidd, Sue Monk / 2003 – June
I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life Kate … / Pearson, Allison / 2003 – July

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

/ Smith, Betty / 2003 – August

Crossing to Safety

/ Stegner, Wallace Earle / 2003 – September
The Bonesetter's Daughter / Tan, Amy / 2003 – October
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of … / Schlosser. Eric / 2003 – November

The Christmas Box

/ Evans, Richard Paul / 2003 – December

The Last Girls

/ Smith, Lee / 2004 – January

The Da Vinci Code

/ Brown, Dan / 2004 – February

One True Thing

/ Quindlen, Anna / 2004 – March

A Thousand Days in Venice

/ De Blasi, Marlena / 2004 – April
Life of Pi / Martel, Yann / 2004 – May

To Kill a Mockingbird

/ Lee, Harper / 2004 – June
Nickel & Dimed, On Not Getting by in America / Ehrenreich, Barbara / 2004 – July

The Time Traveler's Wife

/ Niffenegger, Audrey / 2004 – August

Things Fall Apart

/ Achebe, Chinua / 2004 – September
The Catcher in the Rye / Salinger, J.D. / 2004 – October
The Five People You Meet in Heaven / Albom, Mitch / 2004 – November

Riding the Bus with my Sister: A True Life Story

/ Simon, Rachel / 2005 – January

Kite Runner

/ Hosseini, Khaled / 2005 – February

Bel Canto

/ Patchett, Ann / 2005 – March

Outlander

/ Gabaldon, Diana / 2005 – April

The Last Supper

/ Davidson, Diane Mott / 2005 – May

Birth of Venus

/ Dunant, Sarah / 2005 – June
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Haddon, Mark / 2005 – July
The Book of Eleanor / Kaufman, Pamela / 2005 – August
No meeting – hurricane Rita / 2005 – September
House of Spirits / Allende, Isabell / 2005 – October
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister / Macquire, Gregory / 2005 – November

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

/ De Graaf, John et al / 2006 – January

Mansfield Park

/ Austen, Jane / 2006 – February

The Prince of Tides

/ Conroy, Pat / 2006 – March

My Sister's Keeper

/ Picoult, Jodi / 2006 – April

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

/ Sijie, Dai / 2006 – May

Dive from Clausen's Pier

/ Packer, Ann / 2006 – June
The Screwtape Letters / Lewis, C.S. / 2006 – July
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Brashares, Ann / 2006 – August
Bee Season: A Novel / Goldberg, Myla / 2006 – September
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt / Rice, Anne / 2006 – October
Year of Wonders / Brooks, Geraldine / 2006 – November

Pope Joan

/ Cross, Donna / 2007 – January
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath / Undset, Sigrid / 2007 – February

The Good Earth

/ Buck, Pearl S. / 2007 – March
Our Lady of the Lost & Found / Schoemperlen, Diane / 2007 – April

Ethan Frome

/ Wharton, Edith / 2007 – May

Lords of Discipline

/ Conroy, Pat / 2007 – June
Here Be Dragons / Penman, Sharon Kay / 2007 – July
Interpreter of Maladies / Lahiri, Jhumpa / 2007 – August
For Women Only: ... Inner Lives of Men / Feldhahn, Shaunti / 2007 – September
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan / See, Lisa / 2007 – October
Glass Castles: A Memoir / Walls, Jeannette / 2007 – November
Shadow of the Wind / Zafon, Carlos Ruiz / 2008 – January
The Space Between Us / Umrigar, Thrity / 2008 – February
Water for Elephants / Gruen, Sara / 2008 – March
The Book Thief / Zusak, Markus / 2008 – April
Garlic and Sapphires / Reichl, Ruth / 2008 – May
The Other Boleyn Girl / Gregory, Phillippa / 2008 – June
too many vacations, no meeting / 2008 – July
Middlesex / Eugenides, Jeffrey / 2008 – August
Sense and Sensibility / Austen, Jane / 2008 – September
The Rest of Her Life / Moriarty, Laura / 2008 – October
Three Cups of Tea / Mortenson, Greg / 2008 – November
Pillars of the Earth / Follett, Ken / 2009 – January
The Shack / Young, William P / 2009 – February
Love in the Time of Cholera / Garcia Marquez, Gabriel / 2009 – March
Loving Frank / Horan, Nancy / 2009 – April
The Color Purple / Walker, Alice / 2009 – May
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society / Shaffer, Mary Ann & Barrows, A. / 2009 – June
Same Kind of Different as Me / Hall, Ron & Moore, Denver / 2009 – July
no bookclub; theater trip “The Color Purple” / 2009 – August
Atlas Shrugged / Rand, Ayn / 2009 – September
Still Alice / Genova, Lisa / 2009 – October
The Heretic's Daughter / Kent, Kathleen / 2009 – November
The Help / Stockett, Kathryn / 2010 – January
The Giver / Lowry, Lois / 2010 – February
March / Brooks, Geraldine / 2010 – March
The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search … / Schenone, Laura / 2010 – April
Shanghai Girls / See, Lisa / 2010 – May
Alice I Have Been / Benjamin, Melanie / 2010 – June
First, Do No Harm / Belkin, Lisa / 2010 – July
The Art of Racing in the Rain / Stein, Garth / 2010 – August
Zeitoun / Eggers, Dave / 2010 – September
The Ten Year Nap / Wolitzer, Meg / 2010 – October
The 19th Wife / Ebershoff, David / 2010 – November
Cutting for Stone / Verghese, Abraham / 2011 – January
A Reliable Wife / Goolrick, Robert / 2011 – February
Sarah's Key / de Rosnay, Tatiana / 2011 – March
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Skloot, Rebecca / 2011 – April
Summer by the Sea / Wiggs, Susan / 2011 – May
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives / French, Thomas / 2011 – June
Hunger Games / Collins, Suzanne / 2011 – July
World Without End / Follett, Ken / 2011 – August
A Walk in the Woods / Bryson, Bill / 2011 – September
Room / Donoghue, Emma / 2011 – October
Moloka’i / Alan Brennert / 2011 – November
Katherine / Anya Seton / 2012 – January
Remarkable Creatures / Tracy Chevalier / 2012 – February
Unbroken / Laura Hillenbrand / 2012 – March
One Amazing Thing / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni / 2012 – April
The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien / 2012 – May
What Alice Forgot / Liane Moriarty / 2012 – June
State of Wonder / Ann Patchett / 2012 – July
People of the Book / Geraldine Brooks / 2012 – August
The Paris Wife / Paula Mclain / 2012 – September
Defending Jacob / William Landay / 2012 – October
The Fault in Our Stars / John Green / 2012 – November
The Casual Vacancy / J K Rowling / 2013 – January
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury / 2013 – February
The Snow Child / Eowyn Ivey / 2013 – March
The Light Between Oceans / M L Stedman / 2013 – April
Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn / 2013 – May
The Language of Flowers / Vanessa Diffenbough / 2013 – June
no meeting / 2013 – July
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer / 2013 – August
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry / Rachael Joyce / 2013 – September
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats / Jan-Philipp Sendker / 2013 – October
The Secret Keeper / Kate Morton / 2013 – November
Me Before You / JoJo Moyes / 2014 – January
Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel / Maria Semple / 2014 – February
Carry On Warrior, Thoughts on Life Unarmed / Glennon Doyle Melton / 2014 – March
Orphan Train: A Novel / Christina Baker Kline / 2014 – April
The Girl You Left Behind / JoJo Moyes / 2014 - May
And The Mountains Echoed / Khaled Hosseini / 2014 - June
Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom / 2014 - July
These Is My Words / Nancy Turner / 2014 – August
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry / Gabrielle Ziven / 2014 – September
The Invention of Wings / Sue Monk Kidd / 2014 – October
The Rosie Project / Graeme Simion / 2014 – November
The Husband’s Secret / Liane Moriarty / 2015 – January
Someone / Alice McDermott / 2015 – February
Orange is the New Black / Piper Kerman / 2015 – March
Leaving Time / Jodi Piccoult / 2015 – April
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World / Steven Johnson / 2015 – May
A Spool of Blue Thread / Anne Tyler / 2015 – June
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest of Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics / Daniel James Brown / 2015 – July
All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr / 2015 - August
The Girl On a Train / Paula Hawkins / 2015 – September
The Golem and the Jinni / Helene Wecker / 2015 – October
The Unnecessary Woman / Rabih Alameddine / 2015 – November
Marriage of Opposites / Alice Hoffman / 2016 –January
Fates & Furies / Laura Groff / 2016 – February
The Aviator’s Wife / Melanie Benjamin / 2016 – March
Tattoos on the Heart / Gregory Boyle / 2016 – April
Wonder / RJ Palacio / 2016 – May
Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her
Way Through Great Books / Laura Nicoletti / 2016 – June
A Town Like Alice / Neville Shute / 2016 – August
Circling the Sun / Paula McClain / 2016 – September
The Life We Bury / Allen Eskens / 2016 – October
The Nightingale / Kristen Hannah / 2016 - November
The Last Days of Night: A Novel / Graham Moore / 2017 - January
A Man Called Ove / Fredrik Backman / 2017 – February

Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles2017 – March

Underground RailroadColson Whitehead2017 – April

I Capture the CastleDodie Smith2017 – May

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & RedemptionBryan Stevenson2017 – June

WonderEmma Donahue2017 – July

Caucasia: A NovelDanzy Senna2017 – August

The Last Painting of Sarah de VosDominic Smith2017 -October

It Can’t Happen HereSinclaire Lewis2017-Nov

The Summer Before the WarHelen Simonson2017-January

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