The G.I.R.L.S.

Our Most Recent Reads:

• The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon 
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places by Bridget Harrison
• Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
• Better Off by Eric Brende
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Grayson by Lynne Cox

Can’t remember everything we’ve read over the years? These are some of our past discussions.  If you remember some that aren’t listed here, please email them to Amy & they will be added to the list.
Earlier Reads:

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (December 2006)
• Blink by Malcom Gladwell (November 2006)
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (October 2006)
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (August 2006)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (May 2006)
• This is Your Life by John O’Farrell (April 2006)
• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire (March 2006)
• Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett (February 2006)
• The Samura’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama (read November 2005)
• John Adams by David McCoullough (read October 2005)
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (translated by Lucia Graves) (September 2005)
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paxton (August 2005)
• PS, I Love You By Cecelia Ahern (June 2005)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (April 2005)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (March 2005)
• The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri (February 2005)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (January 2005)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (April 2004)
• A Widow for One Year by John Irving (1999)
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris (2000)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres (2001)
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• Elegance: A Novel by Kathleen Tessaro (August 2004)
• Emma by Jane Austen (2000)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (June 2004)
• Kissing in Manhattan by David Schicker
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Lying Awake by Mark Salzman (2001?)
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1999) - the first book we read!
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffery Eugenides (July 2004)
• Midwives: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian (December 2004)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen (October 2004)
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• Possession by A.S. Byatt (2001)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Seybold
• The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland (January 2004)
• The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
• The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (2003)
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2000)
• The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (2000)
• The Red Tent by Anita Damant (2000)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (September 2004)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (May 2004)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2001) - read in conjunction with the “One Book, One Chicago” campaign
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stephan Fatsis (February 2004)

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