• January 2010 : Classic Female Gone with the Wind by Margeret Mitchell We will also discuss "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns from the collection Great Short Poems edited by Paul Negri
• February 2010: Contemporary Male Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• March 2010: Contemporary Female Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin/LI>
• April 2010: Classic Male Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
• May 2010: Classic Female TBD by TBD
• June 2010: Contemporary Male TBD by TBD
• July/August 2010: Summer Project, TBD
• September 2010: Contemporary Female The land of Green Plumbs by Herta Mueller

Here is the poem for January (spelling or punctuation may be different than it is in the book):

A Red, Red Rose

by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

O my Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!

We will read and discuss one author or at most a few authors per month from the collection:
Great Short Poems edited by Paul Negri.

Previously we read one short story per month from The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike and co-edited by Katrina Kenison. We finished the book in August of 2008.

Email: HarmonyBookGroup@comcast.net

2006 Selections

As voted at the December meeting, the top 3 books of the year were:
1st: I, Claudius and Claudius the God
2nd Memoirs of Hadrian
3rd: Wuthering Heights
The top poem of the year from the collection we are reading was "Ode on Solitude" by Alexander Pope.


1. December 2009 : Classic Male So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
2. November 2009: Contemporary Female Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
3. October 2009 : Contemporary Male Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle. This is the selection for Fort Collins Reads. On November 8th, Boyle will lecture at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins.
4. September 2009 : Classic Female: The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
5. August 2009 : Classic Male, summer project part two: Claudius the God by Robert Graves
6. July 2009: Classic Male, summer project part one: I, Claudius by Robert Graves
7. June 2009: Contemporary Female: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl.
8. May 2009: Classic Female: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
9. April 2009: Classic Male: Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh.
10. March 2009: Contemporary Male: Bright Lights, Big City by Jay Mcinerney
11. February 2009: Contemporary Female: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
12. January 2009: Classic Female: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

2008 Selections
As voted at the December meeting, the top 3 books of the year were:
1st: The Age of Innocence
2nd The Meadow
3rd: The Master (note that Washington Square written by the master, Henry James, was a close 4th)



13. December 2008 : Classic Male: As you Like It by William Shakespeare
14. November 2008: Contemporary Male: The Meadow by James Galvin.
15. October 2008 : Contemporary Female: The Gathering by Anne Enright
16. September 2008: Classic Female: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
17. July and August 2008 (summer project): Classic Male: The Aeneid by Virgil, translation by Robert Fagles.
18. June 2008: Contemporary Male: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
19. May 2008: Contemporary Female: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai


The February, March and April selections form a theme of late 19th century New York. The Master is a fictionalized account of Henry James.
20. April 2008: Classic Male: Washington Square by Henry James
21. March 2008: Classic Female: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
22. February 2008: Contemporary Male: The Master by Colm Toibin
23. January 2008: Contemporary Female: Hell's Bottom, Colorado by Laura Pritchett



2007 Selections
As voted at the December meeting, the top 3 books of the year were:
1st: The Road
2nd The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (most 1st place votes)
3rd: Suite Francaise
The top short story of the year from the collection we are reading was "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.


24. December 2007: Classic Male: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
25. November 2007: Classic Female: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
26. October 2007: Contemporary Male: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
27. September 2007: Contemporary Female: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
28. July and August: Summer Project: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
29. June 2007: Contemporary Male: A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
30. May 2007: Classic Female: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
31. April 2007: Classic Male: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
32. March 2007: Contemporary Female: March by Geraldine Brooks
33. February 2007: Contemporary Male: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
34. January 2007: Classic Female: The Mill on the Floss by George Elliott.



2006 Selections
As voted at the December meeting, the top 3 books of the year were:
1st: The Brother Karamazov
2nd: Tale of Two Cities
3rd: Tie: Water Music and All the Pretty Horses
The top short story of the year from the collection we are reading was "The Rotifer" by Mary Ladd Gavell.

35. December 2006: Classic Male: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
36. November2006: Contemporary Female: Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
37. October 2006: Contemporary Male: All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy
38. September 2006: Classic Female: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
39. July/August 2006 summer project: Category: Classic Male: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevesky
40. June 2006: Contemporary Female: The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
41. May 2006: Contemporary Male: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
42. April 2006: Classic Female: Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
43. March 2006: Classic Male: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
44. February 2006: Contemporary Female: Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
45. January 2006: Contemporary Male: Water Music by T.C. Boyle



2005 Selections
As voted at the December meeting, the top 3 books of the year were:
1st: Tie: The Corrections and Pale Fire
3rd: Pride and Prejudice
Honorable mention: The Iliad

46. December 2005: Classic Female Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
47. November 2005: Classic Male Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
48. October 2005: Contemporary Female Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
49. September 2005: Contemporary Male Nothing but Blue Skies, Thomas McGuane
50. August 2005 summer project: Category: Classic Male The Odyssey, by Homer
51. July 2005 summer project: Category: Classic Male The Iliad, by Homer
52. June 2005: Classic Female Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
53. May 2005: Classic Male Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
54. April 2005: Contemporary Female Winter Range, Claire Davis
55. March 2005: Contemporary Male The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
56. February 2005: Classic Female Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
57. January 2005: Classic Male The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner



2004 Selections
As voted at the December meeting, the top 3 books of the year were:
1st: Life of Pi
2nd: a tie between Don Quixote and For Whom the Bell Tolls
3rd: Sailing Alone Around the Room

58. December 2004: Contemporary Female The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
59. November 2004: Contemporary Male The Information, Martin Amis
60. October 2004: Classic Male The Winters Tale, William Shakespeare
61. September 2004: Classic Female: Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
62. July/August 2004 summer project: Category: Classic Male: Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (translation by Edith Grossman)
63. June 2004: Contemporary Female: Beloved, Toni Morrison
64. May 2004: Contemporary Male: Sailing Alone Around the Room(Poetry), Billy Collins
65. April 2004: Classic Female: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
66. March 2004: Classic Male: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway
67. February 2004: Contemporary Female: Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
    
68. January 2004: Contemporary Male: Life of Pi, Yann Martel
    and first story in The Best American Short Stories of the Century

2003 Selections
As voted at the December meeting, the top 3 books of the year were:
1st: Middlemarch
2nd: Atonement
3rd: Emma



69. December 2003: Classic Female: The Green Knight, Iris Murdoch
70. November 2003: Classic Male: Macbeth, William Shakespeare
71. October 2003: Contemporary Female: Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
72. September 2003: Contemporary Male: White Noise, Don DeLillo
73. July/August 2003 summer project: Category: Classic Female: Middlemarch, George Elliott
    
74. June 2003: Classic Male: The Quiet American, Graham Greene
75. May 2003: Contemporary Male: Atonement, Ian McEwan
76. April 2003: Classic Female: Emma, Jane Austen
    March 2003: no meeting due to blizzard
77. February 2003: Contemporary Female: The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
78. January 2003: Classic Male: The Big Money, John Dos Passos

2002 Selections
Top book of the year:
Under the Net
79. December 2002: Classic Female: Under The Net, Iris Murdoch
80. November 2002: Contemporary Male: Rabbit, Run, John Updike
81. October 2002: Contemporary Female: Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
82. September 2002: Classic Female: Out of Africa, Isak Dineson
83. August 2002: Contemporary Male: Waiting, Ha Jin
84. June and July 2002: Classic Male: Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
85. May 2002: Contemporary Female: Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
86. April 2002: Classic Male: High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
87. March 2002: Classic Female: Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter
88. February 2002: Contemporary Male: A House for Mr. Biswas,V.S. Naipaul
89. January 2002: Contemporary Female: White Teeth , Zadie Smith
    

2001 Selections

Top book of the year:
War and Peace
Exempting War and Peace, the top vote getter was
A Month in the Country
90. December 2001: Classic Male: A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
91. November 2001: Classic Female: The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty
92. October 2001: Contemporary Male: Ravelstein, Saul Bellow
93. September 2001: Contemporary Female: The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
94. July and August 2001: Classic Male: War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
95. June 2001: Contemporary Male: A Prayer for the Dying, Stewart O'Nan
96. May 2001: Classic Female: My Antonia, Willa Cather
97. April 2001: Contemporary Female: Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
98. March 2001: Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
99. February 2001: Classic Female: The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
100. January 2001: Classic Male: The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
     
101. December 2000: Contemporary Female: Regeneration, Pat Barker
102. November 2000: Classic Male: The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
103. October 2000: Contemporary Male: The Hours, Michael Cunningham
104. September 2000: Classic Female: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
105. August 2000: Contemporary Female: Close Range, Annie Proulx
106. June and July 2000: Classic Male: Ulysses, James Joyce
107. May 2000: Classic Female: The Bridal Wreath, Sigrid Undset
108. April 2000: Contemporary Male: Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
109. March 2000: Gigi, Collette
110. February 2000: The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
111. January 2000: Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett
     
112. December 1999: Passage to India, E.M. Forster
113. November 1999: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
114. October 1999: Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
115. September 1999: Cowboys are My Weakness, Pam Houston
116. August 1999: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
117. July 1999: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
118. June 1999: So I Married a Communist, Philip Roth
119. May 1999: Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
120. April 1999: Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
121. March 1999: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
122. February 1999: Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
123. January 1999: Friend of My Youth, Alice Munro
     
124. December 1998: Catch-22, Joseph Heller
125. November 1998: To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
126. October 1998: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez