MUM Book Discussion Group
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Upcoming Books for Discussion:Friday, October 25 - Becoming Madam Secretary, Stephanie Dray(all meetings are held from 12:00-1:00 (see the Library's Events Calendar for our Zoom link, or join us in Room 123, GRD)) Book Discussion ResourcesFinding Books - book ideas and more resources for book clubs from ilovelibraries Reading Group Guides - summaries and discussion questions for books chosen by reading groups Ohio Center for the Book - information on Ohio authors and their works LibraryThing - this links to our LibraryThing account, showing the covers of the books we've read. Click on any book to see more information, reviews, and discussion about it, or click on Search to find another book.
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Books We've Read Since November 16, 2005:Liars and Saints, Maile MeloyThe Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini In Cold Blood, Truman Capote The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver My Antonia, Willa Cather The Giver, Lois Lowry The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, Caroline Alexander To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova The Ponder Heart, Eudora Welty Life of Pi, Yann Martel The Murder Room, P.D. James Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny : Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam, Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie Tru, Eric Melbye The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Charming Billy, Alice McDermott The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (with Jeffrey Zaslow) The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows An Irish Country Doctor, Patrick Taylor A Time To Kill, John Grisham The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie Second Glance, Jodi Picoult Enemy Women, Paulette Jiles Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story", Paul Auster Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts Outlander, Diana Gabaldon The End of Overeating, David Kessler Peace Like a River, Leif Enger The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson The Help, Kathryn Stockett The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein Russka, Edward Rutherfurd Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier In the Woods, Tana French The Lake of Dreams, Kim Edwards The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks April and Oliver, by Tess Callahan Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Colliins Sojourn, by Andrew Krivak The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, by Jenny Wingfield Any Human Heart, William Boyd Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen My Stone of Hope, Jean-Robert Cadet In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor Canada – Richard Ford An Echo Through the Snow – Andrea Thalasinos The Beginner’s Goodbye - Anne Tyler The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich Room - Emma Donoghue The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout Light Between Oceans, M. L. Stedman What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura van den Berg City of Veils, Zoe Ferraris Someone, Alice McDermott Christmas Train, David Baldacci Snow, Orhan Pamuk Tenth of December, George Saunders The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank The Book Thief, Markus Zusak All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot Two Truths and a Lie, Katrina Kittle Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides Lust for Life: the Novel of Vincent Van Gogh, Irving Stone Christmas Remembered, Tomie dePaola Worthy Brown's Daughter, Phillip Margolin Mudbound, Hillary Jordan Deafening, Frances Itani The Girl On the Train, Paula Hawkins A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy Gray Mountain, John Grisham, and Church of Marvels, Leslie Parry The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro The Inner Circle, Brad Meltzer The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker The Walk, Richard Paul Evans Circling the Sun, Paula McLain The Red Tent, Anita Diamant Chicken Boy, Frances O'Roark-McDowell Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld The Lake House, Kate Morton Miller's Valley, Anna Quindlen The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy and Truth and Beauty: a Friendship, Ann Patchett Miss Carter's War, Sheila Hancock The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry A Man Called Ove, Frederik Backman Girl in Translation, Jean Kwok News of the World, Paulette Jiles American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld American Boy, Larry Watson Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee Sacred Hearts, Sarah Dunant No One is Coming to Save Us, Stephanie Powell Watts The Movement of Stars, Amy Brill A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng English Creek, Ivan Doig In the Midst of Winter, Isabel Allende Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel Exit West, Mohsin Hamid My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden The Reckoning, John Grisham Lab Girl, Hope Jahren The works of Gervase Phinn Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver The Arrangement, Sarah Dunn House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III The Trees, Conrad Richter Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield 1222, Anne Holt Roughing It, Mark Twain The Known World, Edward P. Jones Razor Girl, Carl Hiassen The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath Will and Testament, Vigdis Hjorth H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 44 Scotland Street, Alexander McCall Smith The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway The Lost Man, Jane Harper The Widow's War, Sally Gunning Outline, Rachel Cusk The Paris Library, Janet Charles Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Akin, Emma Donoghue A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines Skipping Christmas, John Grisham The Kitchen Front, Jennifer Ryan The Midnight Library, Matt Haig Pachinko, Min Jin Lee Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro Hour of the Witch, Chris Bohjalian When the Apricots Bloom, Gina Wilkinson The Tobacco Wives, Adele Myers The Magnolia Palace, Fiona Davis Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury The Night of Many Endings, Melissa Payne Perestroika in Paris, Jane Smiley Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus The Guncle, Steven Rowley Absolution, Alice McDermott Tom Lake, Ann Patchett Days Without End, Sebastian Barry Revisiting a Book From Your Past I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger Gilead, Marilyn Robinson The Collected Regrets of Clover, Mikki Brammer | Books and Authors We Might Read:Nickel and DimedMemoirs of a Geisha Tom Sawyer The Final Solution Gregory Maguire (anything) The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier Running with Scissors The Reader Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Comfort and Joy Tom Robbins Fahrenheit 451 The Chocolate War Catch-22 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Member of the Wedding The Chosen The Time Machine The Color Purple Robinson Crusoe Madame Bovary Lord of the Flies Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography Profiles in Courage Walden A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman Redemption, Frederick Turner What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution Sacred Hoops, Phil Jackson Tony Hillerman Corrections to My Memoirs, Michael Kun Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky Anything by Dominick Dunne (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles) Beach Music, Pat Conroy Anything by Maeve Binchy Anything by Mary Higgins Clark Anything by Richard North Patterson Zeno's Conscience: A Novel, Italo Svevo Three Cups of Tea Marley Everything is Illuminated Eureka, Jim Lehrer One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Forest Gump, Winston Groom Curious Lives: Adventures from the Ferret Chronicles, Richard Bach Nevada Barr Ballad of Frankie Silver A Hole in Texas The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Haven Kimmel Loving Frank, Nancy Horan One Door From Heaven, Dean Koontz Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris Right of Thirst, Frank Huyler Freedom, Jonathan Franzen Clay's Quilt, Silas House David Mitchell Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson A Faithful Place, Tana French Ape House, Sarah Gruen Medicus, Ruth Downie Crown of Dust, Mary Volmer Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halperin Songbird, Sebastian Faulkes Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Bossypants, Tina Fey Blacks in the White House The Line, Olga Grushin All Other Nights, Dara Horn The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living, Ira Byock The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, Diane Ackerman Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson The Death of King Arthur, Peter Ackroyd Beverly Hills: the Anatomy of a Nightclub Fire Debbie Macomber Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Anna Quindlen The Garden of Evening Mist – Tan Twan Eng Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn Son – Lois Lowry (follows The Giver) We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver The Language of Flowers Owen Parry The Bear Went Over the Mountain, William Kotzwinkle Paris, Edward Rutherfurd The English Girl, Daniel Silva Bad Monkey, Carl Hiaasen Bunker Hill, Nathaniel Philbrick That Used to Be Us, Thomas Friedman Zlata's Diary, Zlata Filipovic Shotgun Lovesong, Nicholas Butler Still Life With Breadcrumbs, Anna Quindlen The Time In Between, Maria Duenas Serena, Ron Rash Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver One Good Dog, Susan Wilson Forever Girl, Alexander McCall Smith The Secret Place, Tana French Mrs. Lincoln's Rival The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, Nadia Hashimi At the Water's Edger, Sarah Gruen The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell The End of Your Life Bookclub All the Light We Cannot See, Andy Doerr The Girls of Atomic City The Accidental Apprentice, Vikas Swarup Plainsong, Kent Haruf The Dream Lover, Elizabeth Berg Boys in the Boat The River Horse, William Least Heat Moon A Star for Mrs. Blake The Paris Architect Casual Vacancy The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, Daniel Levitin Wildfire, Mary Pauline Lowry The Bastard of Istanbul Something by John Steinbeck The Mountain Can Wait, Sarah Leipciger Three Weeks to Say Goodbye, C. J. Box Shame Is An Ocean I Swim Across, Mary Lambert Cannery Row, John Steinbeck Chesapeake, James Michener Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, Greil Marcus The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank Joan Didion, the 1960s and 1970s The Future is Female: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women Shake It Up: Great American writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (please email your additional suggestions to burkejj@miamioh.edu) |