The Happy Bookers CHAIR: Kathy Friedman

   

 

Unless otherwise specified, meetings are at 1:00 p.m. on the second Monday of the month.

SCHEDULE 

Date	Book and Author	Host
Dec 14 at NOON	Netherland Joseph O'Neill and . . . annual HOLIDAY LUNCHEON starting at NOON	Lana Muraskin
Jan 11	Loving Frank Nancy Horan	Elaine Sullivan
Feb 8
Mar 8	Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks	Nancy Hawks
Apr 12	The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux	Lana Muraskin
May 10	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson	Nancie Gilbert
June 14	The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad	Sandy Biggs
July 12	The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr	Moreau Parsons
Aug 9	Invisible Paul Auster	Sharon Neal
Sept 13	Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson	Judy Blinn
Oct 11	Say You're One of  Them Uwem Akpan	Lin Robinson
Nov 8	Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer PLUS Book Selection for 2011	Susan Kramer
Dec 13	When Everything Changed Gail Collins PLUS Holiday Luncheon starting at NOON	Kathy Friedman

Books we have read and rated (group average; scale of 0 - 10)

MO/YR	Book and Author	Group Rating
11/09	People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks	7.8
10/09	All Over But the Shoutin,'  Rick Bragg	8
9/09	Coming of Age,  Studs Terkel	8.1
8/09	The World Without Us,  Alan Weisman	7
7/09	Their Eyes Were Watching God,  Zora Neale Hurston	7.1
6/09	The Whole World Over,  Julia Glass	6.7
5/09	The Last Town on Earth,  Thomas Mullen	7
4/09	A Thousand Splendid Suns,  Khaled Hosseini	8.8
3/09	Banker to the Poor,  Muhammad Yunus	5.3
2/09	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,  David Wroblewski	6.9
1/09	Saturday,  Ian McEwan	6.1
12/08	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See	9.5
11/08	House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday	6
10/08	Glittering Images, Susan Howatch	5.8
9/08	Three Cups of Tea,  Greg Mortenson	7.2
8/08	Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson	6.2
6/08	The Devil in the White City,  Erik Larson	8
5/08	"...And Ladies of the Club"   Helen Santmyer	N/R
4/08	How Doctors Think,  Dr. Jerome E. Groopman	7.5
3/08	Heat, Bill Buford	6.5
2/08	Blood and Thunder,  Hampton Sides	8.8
1/08	The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman	6.9
12/07	The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt	7.4
11/07	The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls	8.5
10/07	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,  Mark Twain	9.1
9/07	The Enemy,   Lee Child	6.7
8/07	Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin	8.8
7/07	The Camel Club, David Baldacci	7
6/07	Left To Tell,  Immaculee Ilibagiza	8
5/07	For One More Day, Mitch Albom	7.5
4/07	The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman	N/R
3/07	One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus	8.5
2/07	How the Light Gets In, Maria Joan Hyland	4.5
1/07	Modoc,  Ralph Helfer	7.8
12/06	Bless Me, Ultima,  Rudolfo Anaya	7.7
11/06	White Lightning,  Justin Cartwright	6.4
10/06	Sea Glass,  Anita Shreve	6.6
9/06	Teacher Man,  Frank McCourt	7.1
8/06	The Mermaid Chair,  Sue Monk Kidd	5.9
7/06	The Forest Lover,  Susan Vreeland	8
6/06	The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich	5.8
5/06	109 East Palace,  Jennet Conant	8.5
4/06	The Traveler,  John Twelve Hawks	5.9
3/06	The House at Otowi Bridge,  Peggy Pond Church	7.4
2/06	Waiting for Snow in Havana,  Carlos Eire	7
1/06	A Million Little Pieces,  James Frey	7.4
12/05	Last of the Curlews, Fred Bodsworth	9.3
11/05	Founding Mothers,  Cokie Roberts	5.8
10/05	The Awakening,   Kate Chopin	5.9
9/05	Snow in August,   Pete Hamill	6.2
7/05	Angle of Repose,   Wallace Stegner	7
6/05	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,    Mark Haddon	7.1
5/05	Under the Banner of Heaven,  Jon Krakauer	6.4
4/05	The Kite Runner,  Khaled Hosseini	9.2
3/05	Krakatoa,  Simon Winchester	6.8
2/05	Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende	8.4
1/05	Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck	8.7
12/04	Land of Burning Heat,  Judith VanGieson	6.8
11/04	Personal History,  Katharine Graham	5.1
10/04	Mrs. Dalloway,  Virginia Woolf	7.1
9/04	Nickel and Dimed,  Barbara Ehrenreich	5.8
7/04	Living to Tell the Tale,   Gabriel Garcia Marquez	4.4
6/04	The Professor and the Madman,  Simon Winchester	6.9
5/04	She's Come Undone,   Wally Lamb	4.5
4/04	The Tortilla Curtain,  T. Coraghessan Boyle	8.8
3/04	The DaVinci Code,  Dan Brown	6.9
2/04	The Secret Life of Bees,  Sue Monk Kidd	8.8
1/04	The Summons,  John Grisham	6
12/03	Wild Swans,  Jung Chang
11/03	The Color of Water,  James McBride	8.6
10/03	Sister Age,  MFK Fisher
9/03	Bobos in Paradise,  David Brooks
8/03	Letters From Yellowstone,  Diane Smith
6/03	The Soloist,  Mark Salzam	8.3
5/03	Three Junes,  Julia Glass
4/03	White Doves in Morning,  James Lee Burke
3/03	Drowning Ruth,  Christina Schwarz	6.4
2/03	The Drowning People,  Richard Manson